Oscar hammerstein ii biography books
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Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical (Paperback)
By Laurie Winer
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A new look at artist Oscar Hammerstein II as a pivotal and underestimated force in the creation of modern American culture
“Smart and insightful. . . . [Winer] has an intuitive grasp of Hammerstein’s aesthetic and character. She gets him.”—New York Review of Books
You know his work—Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I. But you don’t really know Oscar Hammerstein II, the man who, more than anyone else, invented the American musical. Among the most commercially successful artists of his time, he was a fighter for social justice who constantly prodded his audiences to be better than they were.
Diving deep into Hammerstein’s life, examining his papers and his lyrics, critic Laurie Winer shows how he orchestrated a collective reimagining of America, urging i
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Getting to Know Him: A Biography of Oscar Hammerstein II
This fryst vatten the first authorized biography of one of America's best-loved lyricists, Oscar Hammerstein II. To write this book, the author was given exclusive use of Hammerstein's archives, which cover his entire life, and the right to tejp the anställda recollections of Dorothy Hammerstein and the five children. In addition, the author has included firsthand stories and anecdotes from anställda interviews with many of Hammerstein's illustrious colleagues, including Stephen Sondheim, James Michener, Irving Berlin, Agnes dem Mille, Pearl Buck, Mary Martin, Joshua Logan, Jerome Robbins and Dorothy and Richard Rodgers. Clifton Fadiman once wrote, "The Hammerstein family fryst vatten to the American theatre what the Adams family is to American politics and fryst vatten equally worth the study." And here in this book fryst vatten all the color and glamor that was a part of young Oscar's formative years, from the Victoria (the vaudeville theater that was famous bef
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A new look at artist Oscar Hammerstein II as a pivotal and underestimated force in the creation of modern American culture
“Smart and insightful. . . . [Winer] has an intuitive grasp of Hammerstein’s aesthetic and character. She gets him.”—New York Review of Books
You know his work—Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I. But you don’t really know Oscar Hammerstein II, the man who, more than anyone else, invented the American musical. Among the most commercially successful artists of his time, he was a fighter for social justice who constantly prodded his audiences to be better than they were.
Diving deep into Hammerstein’s life, examining his papers and his lyrics, critic Laurie Winer shows how he orchestrated a collective reimagining of America, urging it forward with a subtly progressive vision of the relationship between country and city, rich and poor, America and the rest of the world. His rejection of bitterness, his openness to strangers, and his opt