"The sun never sets on Rodgers and Hammerstein," Brian Kellow pointed out in Opera News. That was certainly true in 2002, the year of the Richard Rodgers centennial celebration which included award-winning Broadway revivals of such classics as...

The collaboration of composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960) began in 1943 with their landmark musical Oklahoma! Each man had already enjoyed a long and impressive career in musical theater....

Rodgers and Hammerstein were an American songwriting duo consisting of Richard Rodgers (1902 – 1979) and Oscar Hammerstein II (1895 – 1960). They are most famous for creating a string of immensely popular Broadway musicals in the 1940s and...

In Airs de Cour: French Court Music of the XVII Century, you will hear Marie Claude Vallin and Max van Egmond singing the old songs of love requited and unrequited. Her voice is pure and unencumbered by vibrato, as these songs call for,...

RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN. By Ethan Mordden. Abrams; 224 pages; $45 IN EARLY 1943, a musical was announced for New York's St James Theatre, rather unlike the revues that preceded it that season: "Stars on Ice", "This is the Army", "Let Freedom Sing",...

Today is Saturday, March 31, the 90th day of 2007. There are 275 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 31, 1889, French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel unfurled the French tricolor from atop the Eiffel Tower, officially marking its completion.On this date:In 1880,...

SHOOT THE WIDOW: ADVENTURES OF A BIOGRAPHER IN SEARCH OF HER SUBJECTBy Meryle SecrestAlfred A. Knopf, 242 pages, $25.95 Biography is the perfect occupation for the scholar-squirrel, assiduously storing lists of the guests at every dinner party, the word count of every...