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The Sound of Their Music: The Story of Rodgers and Hammerstein | 
 enlarge | Authors: Frederick Nolan, Oscar Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers
Publisher: Applause Books
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 425225
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 327
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1557834733
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.140922
UPC: 073999221015
EAN: 9781557834737
ASIN: 1557834733
Publication Date: September 1, 2002
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Condition: New - may have a small remainder mark on the edge.
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The greatest partnership in the history of the musical, captured in print, wonderfully illustrated. For this new edition, the book has been completely rewritten and substantially expanded to include material on Rodgers' early career with Lorenz Hart as well as his later work, and also features recollections from such theatrical titans as Sheldon Harnick, Martin Charnin, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents. Also, a completely new appendix reveals the details of the continuing worldwide phenomenon of Rodgers and Hammerstein's work up to and including the 2002 centennial year for Rodgers.
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A fascinating, charming double bio November 9, 2002
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Frederick Nolan tells the story of Rodgers and Hammerstein both as a team and as separate people. Indeed there is a good deal of space allotted to their careers BEFORE they ever worked together. But after they team up the narrative becomes more lively and a real page turner, at least partly because Nolan's style is graceful and charming in itself. He seems to have read everything written about them, even going so far as to watch TV kinescopes of them from the 1950s, and he talked to many people who knew them, worked with them.It's the backstage stories that make the book sing. Practically every page has a at least one fascinating anecdote. And he doesn't sugar-coat their personalities--Rodgers's curtness, even cruelty, and Hammerstein's insecurity, tendency to swallow his pride. It's hard to read the book without singing to yourself. My God, what songs these two wrote! But more than that, what dramatists they were; they broke convention again and again and mostly successfully. Pull out your recordings of Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific and start reading!
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