The Sound of Their Music
Subtitle: The Story of Rodgers and Hammerstein
Edition: Rev Ed edition
Publisher: Applause Books
Published: September 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9781557834737
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Composers & musicians; Musical theatre; Hammerstein, Oscar,; Biography / Autobiography; 1902-; Rodgers, Richard,; Biography & Autobiography; Entertainment & Performing Arts - Theatre; Biography/Autobiography; Composers & Musicians - General; Songbooks - General; Performing Arts / Theater / General; 1895-1960; Librettists; United States; Biography; Composers
First sentence: On July 23, 1942, The New York Times ran a brief report to the effect that the Theatre Guild was planning to produce a musical adaptation of Lynn Riggs's 1931 play Green Grow the Lilacs, with a book by Oscar Hammerstein II and music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.