Oral history interview with Richard Rodgers, 1968
- Name
- Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979 (Interviewee)
- Leish, Kenneth W (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Richard Rodgers, 1968
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Richard Rodgers, 1968
- Abstract
- Childhood; start in theater; role of Dramatists Guild in securing rights of playwrights; beginnings of the Music Theater of Lincoln Center; association with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II; impressions of George Balanchine, Gertrude Lawrence, Florenz Ziegfeld, Billy Rose and others
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Dramatists; Composers; Popular music; Musicals--United States; Theater; United States Social life and customs; Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979; Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; Dramatists Guild
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1968
- Physical Description
- 392 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Composer
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Interviewed by Kenneth W. Leish
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
- Catalog Record
- 6873539
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-xq7p-4y78
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.