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“Rodgers Without Hammerstein”
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Abstract
For nearly eighteen years Rodgers and Hammerstein enjoyed perhaps the most fruitful collaboration in the history of the American musical, and Hammerstein’s death in 1960 was an incalculable personal and professional loss. Five years earlier Rodgers himself endured an operation in which cancerous portions of his jaw, tongue, and lymph nodes were removed (see Rodgers’s “Cancer? I’ve Had It!” in Part IV}, but at fifty-eight he remained in relatively good health and clearly possessed the will and need to keep working. Along with other journalists, Arthur and Barbara Gelb announced a.
Title: “Rodgers Without Hammerstein”
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Abstract
For nearly eighteen years Rodgers and Hammerstein enjoyed perhaps the most fruitful collaboration in the history of the American musical, and Hammerstein’s death in 1960 was an incalculable personal and professional loss.
Five years earlier Rodgers himself endured an operation in which cancerous portions of his jaw, tongue, and lymph nodes were removed (see Rodgers’s “Cancer? I’ve Had It!” in Part IV}, but at fifty-eight he remained in relatively good health and clearly possessed the will and need to keep working.
Along with other journalists, Arthur and Barbara Gelb announced a.
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