delanceyplace archive by editor Richard Vague:  Richard Rodgers

Today’s encore selection — from The Sound of Their Music: The Story of Rodgers & Hammerstein by Frederick Nolan. Richard Rodgers was a towering giant among 20th century composers, but his often sweet, sentimental and reaffirming music belied the fact that he was a tough-minded businessman and “vulpine womanizer”:

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