Oral history interview with Richard Rodgers, 1968

Biographical Note

Composer

Scope and Contents

Childhood; start in theater; role of Dramatists Guild in securing rights of playwrights; beginnings of the Music Theater of Lincoln Center; association with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II; impressions of George Balanchine, Gertrude Lawrence, Florenz Ziegfeld, Billy Rose and others

Subjects

• Composers--Interviews.
• Dramatists--Interviews.
• Dramatists Guild.
• Interviews.
• Leish, Kenneth W., interviewer.
• Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
• Musicals--United States.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Popular music.
• Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979--Interviews.
• Theater.
• United States--Social life and customs.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984