US-amerikanischer Komponist (1902-1979). Portraitphotographie mit eigenh. Unterschrift. ohne Ort und Datum. 200 : 250 mm.
200 €
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Portrait im 1/2-Profil nach rechts.
US-amerikanischer Komponist (1902-1979). Portraitphotographie mit eigenh. Widmung und Unterschrift. ohne Ort und Datum. 200 : 250 mm.
160 €
(101682)
Portrait im 1/2-Profil nach rechts.
US-amerikanischer Komponist (1902-1979). Portraitphotographie mit eigenh. Widmung und Unterschrift auf der Bildseite. ohne Ort und Datum. 200 : 250 mm.
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Hüftbild von vorn. „To Ana Marie Goddard, | Sincerely, Richard Rodgers“.
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Autograph Musical Manuscript, melody for "Happy Talk" from South Pacific.
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After the disappointing reception of their 1947 musical Allegro, Rodgers and Hammerstein determined that their next collaboration would be a monster hit in the vein of their earlier masterpieces, Oklahoma! and Carousel. Director Joshua Logan and producer Leland Heyward suggested that they consider James Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of short stories, Tales of the South Pacific, as their next project. Rodgers and Hammerstein were especially intrigued by the challenge of including a progressive message of racial tolerance in a Broadway musical and began collaborating on South Pacific in early 1949. The project moved in fits and starts. The team struggled to adapt Michener's 19 stories into a cohesive narrative, but once they found the spine of the story, the songs came quickly. Hammerstein II generally wrote the lyrics first, with Rodgers then providing the tune. "Happy Talk" was reportedly composed in about 20 minutes, between the time that Hammerstein messengered the lyrics over to Rodgers and called just after to make sure they arrived. "Happy Talk" is sung at the beginning of Act II by the character Bloody Mary, the mother of the young Polynesian woman Liat who is in love with the young American office Lieutenant Cable. Seeing that the couple is deeply in love, Bloody Mary encourages Lt. Cable to stay on the island with Liat, singing "You've got to have a dream; if you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?" Lt. Cable, however, confesses that his family's racial prejudices prevent him from choosing a life with Liat. This single leaf features twelve staves of melody for Happy Talk and the title written at the upper left in Rodgers' hand. Above the first stave an unknown hand has penciled in the first two lines of lyrics: "Happy talk, keep talkin' happy talk. Talk about things you'd like to do." South Pacific was a monster hit for Rodgers and Hammerstein, spawning many classic hit songs such as "Some Enchanted Evening," "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair," and "There is Nothing Like a Dame," to name just a few. "Happy Talk," however, is also a beloved favorite of the show: sung by the most forthright character in the show, it is a disarmingly simple argument against letting cultural prejudices control one's actions.