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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.
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 ...
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...
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 “you can ...
Apr 17, 2024 · Quick Reference. (1895–1943) American lyricist. With composer Richard Rodgers, Hart contributed to many successful musicals from 1925 to 1943. Noted for bittersweet love songs, he was one of Broadway's most gifted lyricists. ... From: Hart, Lorenz in The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance ».
One of the most gifted lyricists of the 1920s and '30s; with Richard Rogers, he is responsible for some the most lasting classics of musical theater. Read Full Biography. STREAM OR BUY: Active. 1910s - 1940s. Born. May 2, 1895 in New York, NY. Died.
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.
