Talk:Richard Rodgers

message: I have just seen the documentary The Sweetest Sounds. This article needs to reflect the information about Rodger's personality, his alcholholism and how these things affected/improved his artistic ability. Rodger's children actually talk about being "afraid" of him and also refer to the fact that over the course of his life he consulted with 5 psychiatirsts. Any ideas on how this can be integrated intoa Wiki article without appearing too tabloidish? I will try to draft something up and source quotes from the documentary.
I think there needs to be a section on his alleged mercurial personality. Apparently he was not a very pleasant man (Sondheim did, after all, call him a man of "limited soul") This is not to mean that this article should be gossipy or bitchy- but I do think it adds much to understanding his art (especially since- parradoxically- so much of Rodger's music is emphatically joyful- how did this eminate from a limited or unhappy soul? Disucss!!!)
Talk about the reason(s) why he became a composer!
:Rodgers in his autobiography recounts how he once had to be hospitalized for depression but suggests that this was an isolated incident and that he was never bothered by the afflication before or afterward. His daughter Mary in her introduction to a later edition contradicts him, maintaining that he suffered from depression all his life. I've never heard about the alleged alcoholism before, but then I haven't seen the documentary. Rodgers's songwriting partner Lorenz Hart was an alcoholic, of course, and Rodgers writes about this at some length. TheScotch (talk) 09:53, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Personality

message: "In 1960, the waltz "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music was adopted and transformed into a seminal jazz performance by the saxophonist John Coltrane (Coltrane would frequently play the tune until his death)."
That is real dedication. If Coltrane died frequently, how were his audiences affected? Were they killed too, or merely made ill? --- Instead, how about: "The tune subsequently became a regular part of his répertoire." Bog 01:43, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wider Influences

message: The article references two Pulitzer Prizes.  R&H only won one for SOUTH PACIFIC (see List of Pulitzer Prize winning dramas).
The article references "numerous" schools named after Rodgers yet the link only shows two. 162.83.13.140 13:02, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsupported Facts 

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message: The article states he died after surviving cancer of the jaw, a heart attack, and an operation to remove his larynx; it fails to state what he did die of. F W Nietzsche (talk) 04:37, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Death

message: According to the Guinness Book of Records, the longest known symphony is "Victory at Sea" by Richard Rodgers, lasting 13 hours. Does anyone know anything more about it? As I see it, it's music for a 26-part documentary, hardly a symphony in its own right... -- megA (talk) 01:09, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Symphony "Victory at Sea" 

message: Having died in 1960, Hammerstein could not have discussed the 1961 arrangement of Blue Moon by the Marcells.  This story appears around the Internet, but if true, someone else must have dissuaded him from suing.
Starsledder (talk) 04:55, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Marcells Blue Moon anecdote 

message: In 1973 my family owned a restaurant in Sydney, Australia. I was introduced to a customer who said he heard I was with an opera company (Sydney Opera), and asked whether I liked musicals. I responded "Yes" and asked him to name some. When he mentioned Carousel, Oklahoma, the King and I, etc. I whistled some of the tunes. He asked if I knew 'South Pacific". I answered "Ezio Pinza" and as a bass baritone I imitated Pinza. The customer was impressed that a teenager knew South Pacific. I mentioned that I was about to buy a trumpet.
The next day I arrived at work to find a trumpet, a gift from Mr Rodgers who was returning to the US after filming South Pacific in Samoa.
As a teenager I did not know who he was until a month later when I saw his face on an LP record in a local music store.
Good memories of him.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.129.96.61 (talk) 01:58, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  My encounter with Richard Rodgers 

message: There is a discussion at Talk:Great American Songbook#The future of this article as to how to deal with the uncited lists of songwriters, songs, and singers in that article. Please join the discussion if it interests you. Softlavender (talk) 03:22, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Great American Songbook]] article 

message: The "Awards and Nominations" section doesnt include his two Pulitzers, i think this merit be mention since hes one of the only few to have won that award and an EGOT --BJI904000 (talk) 01:13, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pulitzer Prize 

message: The section “After Hammerstein” is a fairly brief description of Rodger’s solo career. I plan on adding more information, building off what’s already there. His career slowed down as he continued to release new musicals, which will be highlighted by adding statistics of each show’s run time and reviews. Adding dates, specifically of each musical released, will give a more definitive timeline of his later career and show the downward decline of critical acclaim of his musicals. Overall, I plan to add a short paragraph’s worth of how he was not able to create a successful, long term partnership again, as well as the public’s response to his latest musicals. I am open to feedback from other editors, please let me know if there is anything I can approve upon.
This information comes from the book Richard Rodgers by Geoffrey Block, specifically the chapter titled "After Hammerstein." Geoffrey Block is an accredited academic in music history, earning a PhD from Harvard and having published eight scholarly books. 
Victoriamoore02 (talk) 19:47, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Decline After Hammerstein