Rodgers, Richard

A twentieth-century American popular composer. He is known for writing the music to a long succession of musical comedies , including Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The King and I , and The Sound of Music . In all these musicals, the spoken dialogue and lyrics were written by Oscar Hammerstein II.

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Listen to any score by Richard Rodgers or Leonard Bernstein or Fritz Loewe if you want to hear genuine melodic invention.

His words, set to music by Richard Rodgers in the American musical South Pacific, are memorable.

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