Richard Rodgers was born on June 28, 1902. He started playing piano at the age of 6 and attended P.S. 10, Townsend Harris Hall, and DeWitt Clinton High School. He went to Columbia University, and then changed his mind and went to the Institute of Musical Art. Better known today as Juilliard. In 1919, he met Lorenz Hart, and the two of them starting writing musicals. They wrote many shows in the beginning but as far as I can tell, they were not very popular. Until they went out to try new things, it is said though that Richard Rodgers later regretted this. At the time, they wrote some classic songs and then went back to Broadway and wrote hit show after hit show. Richards partner suffered from depression and drinking tendentious of which he knew he couldn’t help him. …show more content…
He started into the theatre when he made his first debut in a Christmas Pageant at his school and at 9 he began taking piano classes. His life took a turn at 15 when his mother died. When he had to choose a career his dad pushed him to go to law school and not pursue theatre, which is what he did. He took classes at Columbia University. But when his dad died in 1914, he became more dependent on the theatrically inclined members of his family. Thus, at Columbia University, Oscar’s career in theatre began. He started performing in plays with the Columbia University Players as a performer and later as a writer, and it was there that he met Richard Rodgers. He got a position as an assistant stage manager. He worked his way through all the jobs he could work there and eventually start writing musical comedies of his own. He partnered up with Rodgers and together the created many memorable musicals. Oscar Hammerstein died in Doylestown, Pennsylvania on August 23. 1960. He had left behind three children, and on September 1, 1960, at 9 p.m the lights on Broadway were extinguished in his memory. He is remembered as the “man who owned
When people think of Texas, one of the first images that come to mind are cattle and the cowboys that work them. Some of those cowboys amassed fortunes and assets that helped to write their names into the annals of history, but one of the great cattle barons achieved a status that is somewhat legendary. Richard King. Capt. King, as he was known during his steamboat days, soared from an indentured jewelry apprentice to the king of an empire. Forever immortalized through the town and ranch that bear his namesake, King lived up to his last name while establishing the King Ranch and, after his death, the town of Kingsville. The task of finding a Texan who hasn’t heard of the King Ranch or Kingsville would be difficult, but finding individuals who know the history of the man presents a far greater task.
Robert E. Lee was the best General for the South, and out smarted every Union General that was put against him. To The South, Lee is like a godly figure to them. He inspired The South even when the North controlled the battlefield, and is still thought highly of by some people in the confederate states. To the North, Lee was a traitor and even lost his citizenship. Although he lost, Lee is still a giant face in history.
Richard Chase was born on May 23, 1950 in Sacramento, California. He died on December 26, 1980. He was born in Sacramento, California (unable to verify).
Hank Williams Jr as we know him was born Hank Randall Williams, born in small town Shreveport, Louisiana, on May 26, 1949. Hank Jr was only three when his father Hank died, but that did not stop his music dream. At just the age of 8 Hank Jr began singing his dad songs on stage. “Williams made his stage debut at the age of 8 and his first appearance at Nashville's famed Grand Ole Opry at age 11. At age 15, Williams had his first Top 5 hit on the country charts. " (http://www.biography.com/) Even though his father was gone, Hank Jr helped carry on his legacy through music. His mother being his biggest supporter, helped him along the way.
Dick Dale was born Richard Anthony Mansour in Boston on the 4th of May 1937 to a father of Arab descent and a mother of Polish-Belarusian descent. He started learning to play music from the young age of nine years, the piano being his first instrument. He also played the harmonica and trumpet. After Dale finished his secondary education, his family moved to Southern California and this led Dale to take up surfing. This and
The partnership of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein was made possible by Richard Rodgers’ partner, Hart, becoming increasingly difficult to get back to work. Rodgers wished to adapt the play Green Grow the Lilacs into a musical, but Hart wasn’t interested in the show. So, Rodgers took Oscar Hammerstein up on his offer to collaborate on a project. That project turned out to be the successful musical Oklahoma!
Many people from the 1900’s contributed to the evolution of the history of rock and roll. However, Jimi Hendrix was the rock legend who changed the way music was made and he raised the bar for the rest of the music industry. Jimi was born in 1942, in Seattle, Washington, he had a difficult childhood, being raised by a young mom who had Jimi at seventeen and a dad who eventually left and started another family, he was often left living with relatives. He only saw his mom a few times before she eventually died in 1958. In many ways music became a sanctuary for Jimi since he grew up not having much. Jimi loved blues and rock and roll and when he was sixteen Jimi got his first acoustic guitar and taught himself how to play. Shortly after he began
In Los Angeles, Nat joined a Eubie Blake’s revival of "Shuffle Along", in 1936. Here he worked with a dancer Nadine Robinson, who would later become his future wife. Nat continued his role in the musical until it disbanded in Long Beach California, in 1937.
Johnny Cash was born in Kingsland, Arkansas the fourth child of five children he was born on February 26,1932. He took after his father because he was in World War One. Johnny Cash went in the army around the post World War Two. His family worked in a cotton mill around The Great Depression. A new way of cotton farming in Mississippi came around in nineteen thirty seven. A flood came around the same time so they had to move temporarily. He died on September 12,2003, he was a complex man he was unforgettable with his bass-baritone voice. Cash was a religious man. In nineteen fifty Johnny Cash graduated high school. After high school he went to work in a auto plant in Michigan. He bought his first
Aaron Copland, whose family name was changed from Kapland by immigration officials in New York, was born on November 14, 1900 and died December 2, 1990. His parents were of Lithuanian Jewish descent. His parents emigrated from Russia to the United States. His father owned a department store and they did not live lavishly. As he explained, "I was born on November 14, 1900 on a street in Brooklyn that can only be Geruso 2 described as drab. It had none of the garish color of the ghetto, none of the charm of an old New England thoroughfare, or even a pioneer street...."He began to take piano lessons at the age of fourteen under the tutelage of his sister Laurine.
Fred Astaire was born on May 10th 1899 in Omaha, Nebraska where he started preforming as a child with his older sister Adele. They started out touring in vaudeville but later in 1917 both made it to Broadway. Fred did many productions with his sister but one that stands out is the 1927 production of Funny Face. Astaire had trouble starting his career though and for one of his first screen tests he failed to attract any attention and the studio executive wrote, "Can't sing. Can't act. Slightly balding. Can dance a little." In 1932 his sister met a man and got married which retired her from their brother-sister act. This was just the thing that pushed him to go to Hollywood and break into the film industry where he started off his career and got many new exciting opportunities. ...
Oscar Hammerstein II, born July 12, 1895, came from a family of theater people. His grandfather, Oscar Hammerstein I, built theatres and loved opera. Following him, would be a generation of theatre managers and Vaudeville presenters. But the true love of theatrical storytelling was in Hammerstein II. From an earlier age, Hammerstein was a quick worker and very productive when it came to his work. Unlike all lyricists at the time, he wrote the libretto to most of the musicals for which he contributed the lyrics. Therefore, the scenes in which his lyrics are place stemmed from the same creative mind. Much of his early career was with many different composers like Herbert Stothart, Otto Harbach, and Jerome Kern. Yet, his name was often
According to wikipedia Johnny Cash was born in kingsland arkansas, though he was never given a real name, he was called J.r while a child, then when he got older people called him Johnny.When he turned five Johnny helped out on his fathers farm with his mom, dad, and older brother.Johnny had a rough childhood, not only the untimely death of his brother, but his abusive father made things worse.Johnnyjoined the air force as a radio operator in Landsberg am Lech, Germany.where he joined a band called the Landsberg Barbarians.afterhis term he married Vivian Liberto and moved to Memphis where he was a radio salesman, and studied to be a radio announser. Cash where for a record deal at sun records, where he sung mostly gospil, and Sam Phillips the owner of sun records said " go home and sin, then come back with a song I can sell.", cash won over sun records and relese...
Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg in 1809. His father Abraham Mendelssohn was a banker, while his mum Lea Mendelssohn was a highly educated artist and musician. Mendelssohn first had his piano lesson from his mum, but soon he was sent to study with the best teachers at that time such as Marie Bigot and Ludwig Burger. He also took composition lessons with Karl Zelter, who was the professor of the University of Berlin. Under their proper guidance, he completely showed his music talent- he first appeared as pianist at nine and as a composer at ten. At his age of twelve, he already composed nine fugues, five symphonies for strings, two operas and a huge number of smaller pieces. When he was sixteen, the publication of his Octet in E-flat Major for strings and Overture to A Mid Summer Night’s Dream marked his full maturity.
Arthur Miller was born in Harlem, New York on October 17, 1915 (“Blooms Notes” 8). Miller and his family lived in upscale Harlem for the first fourteen years of his life (8). Then after a terrible stock market crash that affected the family heavily, they moved to Brooklyn, New York (8). He attended the University of Michigan where he studied playwriting (8). Besides writing plays he wrote radio scripts, and worked as a steamfitter in World War II (Gioia and Kennedy 1763). He began writing plays around 1936, but “It was the next play that secured his