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The Letters of Oscar Hammerstein II
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Artikel-Nr:
9780197538180
Veröffentl:
2022
Erscheinungsdatum:
24.06.2022
Seiten:
1088
Autor:
Mark Eden Horowitz
Gewicht:
1623 g
Format:
251x175x60 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Mark Eden Horowitz is Senior Music Specialist in the music division of the Library of Congress where he has been an archivist or co-archivist for the papers of Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, Vernon Duke, Cole Porter, Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner, Leonard Bernstein and others. He is the author of the award-winning Sondheim on Music and served as the contributing editor for The Sondheim Review for ten years. He has taught the history of musical theatre at Georgetown and Catholic University.
Oscar Hammerstein II is arguably the greatest innovator in the history of American musical theater. This rich collection of his letters not only sheds light on the Golden Age of Broadway theater and its major figures but also reveals a man with a fine sense of humor who was deeply engaged in social activism.
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