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Richard Rodgers

Mumwe wevanonyanya kuzivikanwa vanyori vekuAmerica, yekare American musical theatre Richard Rogers akaberekerwa muNew York musi waJune 28, 1902 mumhuri yechiremba. Mhepo yeimba yacho yakazadzwa nemimhanzi, uye kubva pazera remakore mana mukomana akatora nziyo dzakajairika papiyano, uye pamakore gumi nemana akatanga kunyora. Gamba rake uye muenzaniso wekutevedzera aive Jerome Kern.

Muna 1916, Dick akanyora mimhanzi yake yekutanga yemitambo, nziyo dzekomedhi Imwe Minute Ndapota. Muna 1918, akapinda muColumbia University, kwaakasangana naLawrence Hart, uyo akadzidza mabhuku nemutauro ikoko uye panguva imwe cheteyo akashanda muimba yemitambo somunyori werevue uye mushanduri weViennese operettas. Basa rakabatana raRogers naHart rakatora chikamu chechina chezana uye rakatungamira mukusikwa kwemitambo makumi matatu. Mushure mekuongorora kwemudzidzi kuyunivhesiti, aya ndiwo maitiro eThe Girlfriend (1926), The Connecticut Yankee (1927) uye mamwe eBroadway theatre. Panguva imwecheteyo, Rogers, asingatarise dzidzo yake yemimhanzi yakakwana, anga achidzidza kuNew York Institute of Music kwemakore matatu, kwaanodzidza zvidzidzo zvemimhanzi uye kuitisa.

Mumhanzi waRodges uri kuita mukurumbira zvishoma nezvishoma. Muna 1931, iye naHart vakakokwa kuHollywood. Mhedzisiro yekugara kwemakore matatu muguta guru reumambo hwefirimu ndeimwe yemafirimu emimhanzi akanakisa panguva iyoyo, Love Me in the Night.

Vanyori vanodzokera kuNew York vakazara nehurongwa hutsva. Mumakore anotevera, pane On Pointe Shoes (1936), The Recruits (1937), Ndakaroora Ngirozi (1938), The Syracuse Boys (1938), Buddy Joy (1940), Ndinopika naJupiter (1942).

Mushure mekufa kwaHart, Rogers anoshanda nemumwe musununguko. Uyu ndomumwe weanonyanya kuzivikanwa muAmerica, munyori weiyo libretto yaRose Marie uye The Floating Theatre, Oscar Hammerstein. Naye, Rogers anogadzira mapfumbamwe operettas, kusanganisira ane mukurumbira Oklahoma (1943).

Iyo yekugadzira portfolio yemunyori inosanganisira mimhanzi yemafirimu, nziyo, anopfuura makumi mana emimhanzi nemitambo yemitambo. Pamusoro peavo vakanyorwa pamusoro, ava ndiCarousel (1945), Allegro (1947), MuSouth Pacific (1949), The King and I (1951), Me and Juliet (1953), The Impossible Dream “(1955), "Rwiyo rweRuva Drum" (1958), "Inzwi reMimhanzi" (1959), nezvimwewo.

L. Mikheeva, A. Orelovich