Simon Schuster | ISBN:1416594256 | File Type: PDF, 544 pages | File size: 44.Mb | Jul. 3rd, 2012
Musician Individual Composers: The Life of Lorenz Hart From Blue Moon to Where or When and My Funny Valentine Lorenz Hart together with Richard Rodgers created some of the most beautif and witty songs ever written Here is the story of the strikingly unromantic life of this songwriting genius His lyrics spin with pinwheel brilliance and sophistication yet at their core is an unmistakable wistfness The sweetness of lyrics such as My Romance and Isn t It Romantic is unsurpassed in American song But Hart s lyrics cod also be cynical This Funny World celebratory The Lady Is a Tramp or ironic Falling in Love with Love Larry Hart and Richard Rodgers both attended Columbia University though neither left with a degree Together they wrote approximately thirty Broadway musicals and dozens of songs for Hollywood films At least four of their musicals On Your Toes Babes in Arms The Boys from Syracuse and al Joey became ics Rodgers and Hart were an odd couple Rodgers was precise punctual heterosexual handsome and eager to be accepted by society Hart was barely five feet tall alcoholic homosexual and more comfortable in a bar or restaurant than anywhere else Terrified of solitude he invariably picked up the check or threw the party His lyrics are all the more remarkable considering that he never sustained a romantic relationship living his entire life with his mother who died only months before his own death at age forty eight Marmorstein s fascinating biography includes many of the lyrics that define Hart s legacy those clever touching stanzas that still move us or make us laugh A Ship Without a Sail superbly portrays the life of this exuberant yet troubled artist whose gift so enriched American popar song
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