{"product_id":"richard-rodgers","title":"Richard Rodgers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lively book that examines—for the first time—the full range of music by one of America’s most celebrated composers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Richard Rodgers was an icon of the musical theater, a prolific composer whose career spanned six decades and who wrote more than a thousand songs and forty shows for the American stage. In this absorbing book, Geoffrey Block examines Rodgers’s entire career, providing rich details about the creation, staging, and critical reception of some of his most popular musicals. Block traces Rodgers’s musical education, early work, and the development of his musical and dramatic language. He focuses on two shows by Rodgers and Hart (\u003ci\u003eA Connecticut Yankee and \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Boys from Syracuse) \u003c\/i\u003eand two by Rodgers and Hammerstein (\u003ci\u003eSouth Pacific and Cinderella),\u003c\/i\u003e offering new insights into each one. He concludes with the first serious look at the five neglected and often maligned musicals that Rodgers composed in the 1960s and 1970s, after the death of Hammerstein.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54221211304280,"sku":"9780300217605","price":28.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/richard-rodgers","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}