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Nov 30, 2012 · A biography of Lorenz Hart, the lyric-writing partner to the composer Richard Rodgers and perhaps the most popular songsmith-poet in America.
A student of literature and an inveterate playgoer from childhood, Lorenz Hart contributed to musical comedies sharp, tasteful lyrics finely coordinated with rhythm and melody and with the plot...
Wrote 26 Broadway musicals. Lorenz Hart was born in New York City on May 2, 1895, the oldest of two sons of Frieda and Max Hart. Hart graduated from Columbia Grammar School, and attended the Columbia School of Journalism. In the late 'teens a mutual friend introduced Hart to composer Richard Rodgers, seven years his junior and the two began ...
Nov 26, 2012 · Blue Rooms: The Sad, Slicing Lyrics of Lorenz Hart. IN 1962, ALMOST TWENTY years after the lyricist Lorenz Hart’s death, his melodist partner Richard Rodgers told Diahann Carroll that...
American composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and lyricist/librettist Lorenz Hart (1895-1943) were one of America's most successful composer/lyricist teams in the golden age of American songwriting. Their works for the musical theater produced a cornucopia of lasting songs.
About Lorenz Hart. Standing only 4'10", Lorenz Hart (1895-1943) wrote some of the most brilliant song lyrics of his time. Born to Jewish immigrant parents, he met Richard Rodgers at Columbia ...
Lorenz Hart (1895–1943) Lyricist. Journalism 1914–16. Hart was one of the towering figures of the American musical theater in the early twentieth century. His collaborations with composer Richard Rodgers (Columbia College 1919–21) produced dozens of classic songs such as “Manhattan,” “Blue Moon,” and “The Lady Is a Tramp” from ...
