Who are Rodgers and Hammerstein?

Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer who lived from 1902 to 1979. Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was a lyricist, producer and director of musicals who lived from 1895 to 1960. Songs and songs, of which Hammerstein.

Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote several songs together when they were quite young and then walked in their separate ways. Rodgers had a long -term partnership with lyricist Lorenz Hart before returning to work with Hammerstein. They met in 1919 and went through the first hit with the song "Manhattan". Perhaps the best known of their musicals are boys from Syracus and Pal Joey. Their songs, such as "Blue Moon" and "My Funny Valentine", may be better known. When Rodgers and Hammerstein returned together, their first cooperation was Oklahoma! You, with Oklahoma !, were their greatest successHy. And all these musicals that began on Broadway have also become successful as the main films. Their musical Cinderella , TV musical, was revived in 1997 with brandy and Whitney Houston.

Not only were their musicals unforgettable as a whole, but many songs from films have become standards. These include "Oh, what beautiful morning", "Surrey with the edge of the top" and the title song by Oklahoma!; "If I love you" and "you will never walk alone" from Carousel ; "Some enchanted evening" from South Pacific ; "I know you," "you are happy" and "we will dance" from king and I ; and "Do-Re-Mi", "My Favorite Things", "Sixteen Eleven" and "Edelweiss" from music sound

Together, Rodgers and Hammerstein won 15 Academy awards, two Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, two Pulitzer Awards and 35 Tony awards. At the end of your career genusGers gathered not only Oscar and Emmy and Tony, but also Grammy and Pulitzer - one only two people.