Without the pioneering work of Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) the musical world had certainly been different. Rodgers grew up in a wealthy Jewish family that enabled him to study at a conservatory. Rodgers worked all his life with regular writers. First with Lorentz Hart (1919 to 1943) and after the war, especially with Oscar Hammerstein II. Rodgers is the composer of many songs that nestled in the
… collective memory as Blue Moon, My Funny Valentine and The Lady Is A Tramp. In the Netherlands, is probably best known for the music he wrote for The Sound Of Music (1957). Rodgers was highly decorated with life. He is one of winning the two people who knew both an Oscar and an Emmy, a Grammy, a Tony and Pulitzer Prize journalism.more
