The Pasadena Senior Center invites you to enjoy a free composer show featuring pianist Bob Lipson and commentator/performer Don Snyder as they explore the life and works of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. The show is live on Zoom on Thursday, November 12, starting at 2 p.m.
Composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and lyricist/librettist Lorenz Hart (1895-1943) were one of America’s most successful composer/lyricist teams in the golden age of American songwriting. Their works for the musical theater produced a cornucopia of lasting songs. From the beginning of a collaboration that began in 1925 and lasted until Lorenz Hart’s death in 1943, Rodgers and Hart shared the goal of writing music for the theater that joined lyrics and music with dramatic and emotional coherence.
By the time of their last work together, their experiments in musical theater had prepared the way for Rodgers’s later great musicals with Oscar Hammerstein – works such as “Oklahoma! (1943)” and “Carousel (1945),” in which the interaction of lyrics, libretto, music, and dance reached a new level.
Rodgers and Hart’s best known shows are “The Boys from Syracuse (1938),” for which the songs “Falling in Love with Love” and “This Can’t Be Love” were written, and “Pal Joey (1940),” which includes “Bewitched (Bothered, and Bewildered),” one of their most popular songs.
To register for this Zoom event or for more information, visit www.pasadenaseniorcenter.org and click on Events, Clubs and Lectures, then Online Events.
You may also call the Pasadena Senior Center at (626) 795-4331 or email info@pasadenaseniorcenter.org.
