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ʻO Richard Rodgers

Ua hānau ʻia ʻo Richard Rogers kekahi o nā haku mele ʻAmelika kaulana loa, ʻo Richard Rogers ma New York i ka lā 28 o Iune, 1902 ma ka ʻohana o ke kauka. Ua hoʻopiha ʻia ka lewa o ka hale i nā mele, a mai kona mau makahiki ʻehā, ua ʻohi ke keiki i nā mele i kamaʻāina ma ka piano, a i ka makahiki ʻumikumamāhā ua hoʻomaka ʻo ia e haku. ʻO Jerome Kern kāna meʻe a me kāna kumu hoʻohālike.

I ka makahiki 1916, ua kākau ʻo Dick i kāna mele keaka mua, nā mele no ka hoʻohenehene One Minute Please. I ka makahiki 1918, ua komo ʻo ia i ke Kulanui ʻo Columbia, kahi i hui ai ʻo Lawrence Hart, nāna i aʻo i ka palapala a me ka ʻōlelo ma laila a ma ka manawa like ua hana ʻo ia ma ka hale keaka ma ke ʻano he mea kākau revue a unuhi ʻōlelo no nā operettas Viennese. ʻO ka hana hui a Rogers lāua ʻo Hart i lōʻihi ma kahi o ka hapahā o ke kenekulia a alakaʻi i ka hana ʻana i kanakolu mau pāʻani. Ma hope o nā loiloi haumāna ma ke kulanui, ʻo ia nā hana o The Girlfriend (1926), The Connecticut Yankee (1927) a me nā mea ʻē aʻe no nā hale kiʻiʻoniʻoni Broadway. I ka manawa like, ʻo Rogers, ʻaʻole i noʻonoʻo pono i kāna hoʻonaʻauao mele, ua aʻo ʻo ia ma ka New York Institute of Music no ʻekolu mau makahiki, kahi āna e aʻo ai i nā kumuhana theoretical musical a me ke alakaʻi ʻana.

Ke ulu mālie nei nā mele a Rodgers. I ka makahiki 1931, ua kono ʻia ʻo ia a me Hart i Hollywood. ʻO ka hopena o kahi noho ʻekolu makahiki ma ke kapikala o ke aupuni kiʻiʻoniʻoni ʻo ia kekahi o nā kiʻiʻoniʻoni mele maikaʻi loa o ia manawa, ʻo Love Me in the Night.

Hoʻi nā hoa kākau i New York piha i nā hoʻolālā hou. I nā makahiki aʻe, aia nā On Pointe Shoes (1936), The Recruits (1937), I Married an Angel (1938), The Syracuse Boys (1938), Buddy Joy (1940), I Swear by Jupiter (1942).

Ma hope o ka make ʻana o Hart, ua hui pū ʻo Rogers me kahi manuahi ʻē aʻe. ʻO kēia kekahi o nā mea kaulana loa ma ʻAmelika, ka mea kākau o ka libretto o Rose Marie a me The Floating Theatre, ʻo Oscar Hammerstein. Me ia, hana ʻo Rogers i ʻeiwa operettas, me ka Oklahoma kaulana (1943).

Aia i loko o ka waihona noʻonoʻo o ka mea haku mele nā ​​mele no nā kiʻiʻoniʻoni, nā mele, ʻoi aku ma mua o kanahā mau hana mele a me nā hana keaka. Ma kahi o nā mea i helu ʻia ma luna nei, ʻo Carousel (1945), Allegro (1947), In the South Pacific (1949), The King and I (1951), Me and Juliet (1953), The Impossible Dream "(1955), "The Song of the Flower Drum" (1958), "The Sound of Music" (1959), etc.

L. Mikheeva, A. Orelovich