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Hammerstein attended Columbia University ( 1912 – 16 ) and studied at Columbia Law School until 1917.
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Hammerstein and attended
Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, and Rodgers's later collaborator Oscar Hammerstein II all attended Columbia University.
* Richard Rodgers ( attended ) was a composer, best known for his work with lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II ( Oklahoma !, The King and I, The Sound of Music ).
Hammerstein and Columbia
Many Columbia alumni have gone on to renowned careers in the arts, such as the composers Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Lorenz Hart, and Art Garfunkel.
The Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theater Studies at Columbia University was established in 1981 with a $ 1-million gift from his family.
In a reversal of the usual situation, in which American Decca had released original Broadway cast albums of three Rodgers and Hammerstein shows, this was the only film soundtrack album of a Rodgers and Hammerstein show ever released by Decca, while the Broadway cast album had been released by Columbia Masterworks.
* Rodgers and Hammerstein Columbia University Encyclopedia
Hammerstein and 1912
Arthur Hammerstein asked Harbach in 1912 to write the lyrics to an operetta with Rudolf Friml, called The Firefly.
In 1912, Hammerstein requested his stocks back from the company and chose to no longer pay for his daughters.
He was the producer of the Rudolf Friml operettas The Firefly ( 1912 ), Katinka ( 1915 ) and Rose-Marie ( 1924 ), which he collaborated on with his nephew, Oscar Hammerstein II.
Hammerstein and –
* 1897 – Elaine Hammerstein, American actress ( d. 1948 )
* 1895 – Oscar Hammerstein II, American songwriter, director, and producer ( d. 1960 )
* 1847 – Oscar Hammerstein I, American businessman, impresario, and composer ( d. 1919 )
Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960 ) was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and ( usually uncredited ) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years.
'" After Oklahoma !, Rodgers and Hammerstein were the most important contributors to the musical-play form – with such masterworks as Carousel, The King and I and South Pacific.
Hammerstein was probably the best " book writer " in Broadway history – he made the story, not the songs or the stars, central to the musical and brought musical theater to full maturity as an art form.
* August 1 – Oscar Hammerstein I, Polish-born theater impressario and composer ( born 1847 )
* November 25 – Oscar Hammerstein opens the Olympia Theatre, the first theatre to be built in NYC's Times Square district.
It was Oscar Hammerstein II ( pp. 58 – 59 ).
* 1950: South Pacific * – Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan
This era of Hollywood Squares recorded three weeks of show in the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York during Season 3 ( November 6 – 24, 2000 ), but was more notable for its reliance on " theme weeks.
* Carousel ( 29 November 2008 – 20 June 2009 ) by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, starring Lesley Garrett
* January 6 – A somewhat revised and streamlined revival of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat opens on Broadway at the Ziegfeld Theatre, the same theatre at which the original production played back in 1927.
* Show Boat ( Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II ) – Paris production
* February 22 – A new, videotaped production of the 1957 special Cinderella, by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, airs on CBS with young Lesley Ann Warren ( in the title role ) starring alongside Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, and Celeste Holm.
* July 12 – Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist ( died 1960 )
* Elaine Hammerstein ( 1897 – 1948 ), actress
Richard Rodgers ( 1902 – 1979 ) and Oscar Hammerstein II ( 1895 – 1960 ) were an influential, innovative and successful American musical theatre writing team, usually referred to as Rodgers and Hammerstein.
" In The Complete Book of Light Opera, Mark Lubbock adds, " After Oklahoma !, Rodgers and Hammerstein were the most important contributors to the musical-play form – with such masterworks as Carousel, The King and I and South Pacific.
* 1950: South Pacific – Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan.
Hammerstein and 16
Producers Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II invited Irving Berlin to replace him, and the result was Annie Get Your Gun, which opened on May 16, 1946 at the Imperial Theatre, where it ran for nearly three years and 1, 147 performances.
* Carousel ( 16 September 1993 – 27 March 1994 ) by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Hammerstein and at
At present, the society is performing a tribute concert to the works of Rodgers and Hammerstein at the National Concert Hall.
Hammerstein died of stomach cancer on August 23, 1960, at his home in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, at 65, shortly after the opening of The Sound of Music on Broadway.
* Biography of Oscar Hammerstein II at RNH Official Site
It was at the opening of South Pacific, the musical Hammerstein wrote with Richard Rodgers, that Sondheim met Harold Prince, who would later direct many of Sondheim's shows.
The first presentation of the film was at the Palace Theater in Chicago on February 8, 1914 ; later performances were at the Hammerstein Theater in New York City.
Fred Zinnemann decided to make the film at the suggestion of Dorothy Hammerstein, Australian wife of Oscar Hammerstein.
Logan received the Pulitzer Prize at the age of forty for the libretto of South Pacific, which he cowrote with Oscar Hammerstein II.
The Black Crowes playing at the Hammerstein Ballroom, 2005
* Golden Dawn Broadway operetta opened at the Hammerstein Theatre on November 30 and ran for 184 performances
* Show Boat ( Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II )-Broadway production opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on December 27 and ran for 572 performances
Rodgers then called Oscar Hammerstein at home.
Produced by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, the Broadway production opened on October 19, 1944 at the Music Box Theatre and ran for 713 performances.
* On September 26, 1997, Bryan Adams performed on Unplugged at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City and released an album.
Rodgers ( left ) and Hammerstein ( right ), with Irving Berlin ( middle ) and Helen Tamiris, watching auditions at the St. James Theatre in 1948
Forbes named Rodgers and Hammerstein second on its list of top-earning dead celebrities in 2009 at $ 235 million.
* Rodgers and Hammerstein biography Biography at Official Site
* Rodgers and Hammerstein Discography at Discogs
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