Word: tunesmith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bolster this piffling book, veteran Tunesmith Richard Rodgers, 61, has fashioned a score of romantic witchery-most hauntingly, The Sweetest Sounds. Doubling as his own lyricist after four decades with the late Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II, Rodgers is less assured, more studied than spontaneous, less caught up than caged in his own words...
...University officials stayed silent on the subject last week, but word leaked out that Porter, on the eve of his 67th birthday next month, will get an honorary degree (best guess: Doctor of Music) at his apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers. Reason for the honor in absentia: Tunesmith Porter, injured badly in a 1937 spill from a horse, had his right leg amputated two years ago, is too frail to under go the ceremonies in New Haven. At week's end, Yaleman Porter got an accolade at the Metropolitan Opera House. A dozen composers and other talent...