People named Richard Rodgers

Richard P Rodgers of Newton, Jasper County, IA was born on February 14, 1918, and died at age 87 years old on December 27, 2005.

Richard Rodgers of Jackson Heights, Queens County, NY was born on November 13, 1919 in Channel Islands or England or Great Britain or Isle Of Man or Northern Ireland or Scotland or Wales, and died at age 85 years old on April 11, 2005. Richard Rodgers was buried at Calverton National Cemetery Section 28 Site 1029 210 Princeton Boulevard - Rt 25, in Calverton.

Richard R Rodgers of Bridgeport, Fairfield County, CT was born on February 8, 1917, and died at age 86 years old on July 19, 2003.

Richard W Rodgers of Dallas, Dallas County, TX was born on April 8, 1930, and died at age 62 years old on November 29, 1992.

Richard Don Rodgers of Ranger, Eastland County, Texas was born on August 1, 1947, and died at age 61 years old on October 23, 2008.

Richard E Rodgers of Chicago, Cook County, IL was born on September 6, 1943, and died at age 65 years old on January 1, 2009. Richard Rodgers was buried at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery Section 8 Site 2981 20953 West Hoff Road, in Elwood.

Richard F Rodgers of Montgomery, Montgomery County, AL was born on October 25, 1927, and died at age 81 years old on September 19, 2009.

Richard W Rodgers of Winter Park, Orange County, FL was born on July 15, 1925, and died at age 81 years old on June 19, 2007.

Richard D Rodgers of Humarock, Plymouth County, MA was born on January 2, 1908, and died at age 63 years old in March 1971.

Richard L Rodgers of Mentor, Lake County, OH was born on December 5, 1925, and died at age 70 years old on March 25, 1996.

Richard C Rodgers of Allen Park, Wayne County, Michigan was born on April 14, 1914, and died at age 68 years old in March 1983.

Richard A Rodgers of Butler, Butler County, PA was born on July 14, 1926, and died at age 81 years old on April 4, 2008.

Richard Rodgers of Brooklyn, Kings County, NY was born on May 12, 1908 in Channel Islands or England or Great Britain or Isle Of Man or Northern Ireland or Scotland or Wales, and died at age 71 years old on March 5, 1980. Richard Rodgers was buried at Calverton National Cemetery Section 4 Site 697 210 Princeton Boulevard - Rt 25, in Calverton.

Richard A Rodgers of Latham, Albany County, NY was born on September 3, 1931, and died at age 76 years old on May 4, 2008. Richard Rodgers was buried at Gerald B.h. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery Section CW16 Row C Site 38 200 Duell Road, in Schuylerville.

Richard D Rodgers of Hood County, TX was born circa 1965. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Richard D. Rodgers.

Richard Rodgers of Carlton Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Richard Rodgers.

Richard Rodgers of Kellalac Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Richard Rodgers.

Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. His compositions have had a significant impact on popular music up to the present day, and have an enduring broad appeal. Rodgers was the first person to win what are considered the top show business awards in television, recording, movies and Broadway—an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony—now known collectively as an EGOT. He has also won a Pulitzer Prize, making him one of two people (Marvin Hamlisch is the other) to receive each award. Biography Born into a prosperous German Jewish family in Arverne, Queens, New York City, Rodgers was the son of Mamie (Levy) and Dr. William Abrahams Rodgers, a prominent physician who had changed the family name from Abrahams. Richard began playing the piano at age six. He attended P.S. 10, Townsend Harris Hall and DeWitt Clinton High School. Rodgers spent his early teenage summers in Camp Wigwam (Waterford, Maine) where he composed some of his first songs. Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, and later collaborator Oscar Hammerstein II all attended Columbia University. At Columbia, Rodgers joined the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. In 1921, Rodgers shifted his studies to the Institute of Musical Art (now the Juilliard School). Rodgers was influenced by composers such as Victor Herbert and Jerome Kern, as well as by the operettas his parents took him to see on Broadway when he was a child. In 1919, Richard met Lorenz Hart. Rodgers and Hart struggled for years in the field of musical comedy, writing several amateur shows. They made their professional debut with the song "Any Old Place With You", featured in the 1919 Broadway musical comedy A Lonely Romeo. Their first professional production was the 1920 Poor Little Ritz Girl, which also had music by Sigmund Romberg. Their next professional show, The Melody Man, did not premiere until 1924. When he was just out of college Rodgers worked as musical director for Lew Fields. Among the stars he accompanied were Nora Bayes and Fred Allen. Throughout the rest of the decade, the duo wrote several hit shows for both Broadway and London, including Dearest Enemy (1925), The Girl Friend (1926), Peggy-Ann (1926), A Connecticut Yankee (1927), and Present Arms (1928). Their 1920s shows produced standards such as "Here in My Arms", "Mountain Greenery", "Blue Room", "My Heart Stood Still" and "You Took Advantage of Me". In 1935, they returned to Broadway and wrote an almost unbroken string of hit shows that ended only with Hart's death in 1943. Among the most notable are Jumbo (1935), On Your Toes (1936, which included the ballet "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue", choreographed by George Balanchine), Babes in Arms (1937), I Married an Angel (1938), The Boys from Syracuse (1938), Pal Joey (1940), and their last original work, By Jupiter (1942). Rodgers also contributed to the book on several of these shows. Many of the songs from these shows are still sung and remembered, including "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World", "My Romance", "Little Girl Blue", "I'll Tell the Man in the Street", "There's a Small Hotel", "Where or When", "My Funny Valentine", "The Lady Is a Tramp", "Falling in Love with Love", "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered", and "Wait till You See Her". In 1939, he wrote the ballet Ghost Town for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, with choreography by Marc Platoff. Rodgers and Hammerstein Main article: Rodgers and Hammerstein Rodgers (seated) with Hammerstein, 1945 Their first musical, the groundbreaking hit Oklahoma! (1943), marked the beginning of the most successful partnership in American musical theatre history. Their work revolutionized the form. What was once a collection of songs, dances and comic turns held together by a tenuous plot became an integrated masterpiece. The team went on to create four more hits that are among the most popular of all musicals. Each was made into a successful film: Carousel (1945), South Pacific (1949, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), The King and I (1951), and The Sound of Music (1959). Other shows include the minor hit, Flower Drum Song (1958), as well as relative failures Allegro (1947), Me and Juliet (1953) and Pipe Dream (1955). They also wrote the score to the film State Fair (1945) (which was remade in 1962 with Pat Boone), and a special TV musical of Cinderella (1957). Their collaboration produced many well-known songs, including "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'", "People Will Say We're in Love", "Oklahoma!" (which also became the state song of Oklahoma), "If I Loved You", "You'll Never Walk Alone", "It Might as Well Be Spring", "Some Enchanted Evening", "Getting to Know You", "My Favorite Things", "The Sound of Music", "Sixteen Going on Seventeen", "Climb Ev'ry Mountain", "Do-Re-Mi", and "Edelweiss", Hammerstein's last song. Rodgers was the subject of a two-part special on Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town television show in 1952. Much of Rodgers's work with both Hart and Hammerstein was orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett. Rodgers composed twelve themes, which Bennett used in preparing the orchestra score for the 26-episode World War II television documentary Victory at Sea (1952–53). This NBC production pioneered the "compilation documentary"—programming based on pre-existing footage — and was eventually broadcast in dozens of countries. The melody of the popular song "No Other Love" was later taken from the Victory at Sea theme entitled "Beneath the Southern Cross". Rodgers won an Emmy for the music for the ABC documentary Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years, scored by Eddie Sauter, Hershy Kay, and Robert Emmett Dolan. Rodgers composed the theme music, "March of the Clowns", for the 1963–64 television series The Greatest Show on Earth, which ran for 30 episodes. He also contributed the main-title theme for the 1963–64 historical anthology television series The Great Adventure. In 1950, Rodgers and Hammerstein received The Hundred Year Association of New York's Gold Medal Award "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York." Rodgers, Hammerstein, and Joshua Logan won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for South Pacific. Rodgers and Hammerstein had won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for Oklahoma!. In 1954, Rodgers conducted the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in excerpts from Victory at Sea, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue and the Carousel Waltz for a special LP released by Columbia Records. Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals earned a total of 35 Tony Awards, 15 Academy Awards, two Pulitzer Prizes, two Grammy Awards, and two Emmy Awards. After Hammerstein After Hammerstein's death in 1960, Rodgers wrote both words and music for his first new Broadway project No Strings (1962, which earned two Tony Awards). The show was a minor hit and featured the song, "The Sweetest Sounds". Rodgers also wrote both the words and music for two new songs used in the film version of The Sound of Music. (Other songs in that film were from Rodgers and Hammerstein.) Death and legacy Rodgers died in 1979 at the age of 77, after surviving cancer of the jaw, a heart attack, and a laryngectomy. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered at sea. In 1990, the 46th Street Theatre was renamed "The Richard Rodgers Theatre" in his memory. In 1999, Rodgers and Hart were each commemorated on United States postage stamps. In 2002, the centennial year of Rodgers's birth was celebrated worldwide with books, retrospectives, performances, new recordings of his music, and a Broadway revival of Oklahoma!. The BBC Proms that year devoted an entire evening to Rodgers's music, including a concert performance of Oklahoma! Several American schools are named after Richard Rodgers. Alec Wilder wrote the following about Rodgers: "Of all the writers whose songs are considered and examined in this book, those of Rodgers show the highest degree of consistent excellence, inventiveness, and sophistication...[A]fter spending weeks playing his songs, I am more than impressed and respectful: I am astonished." Richard Rodgers is a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame. After Doris Day recorded "I Have Dreamed" in 1961, he wrote to her and her arranger, James Harbert, that theirs was the most beautiful rendition of his song he had ever heard. Mary Martin said that Richard Rodgers composed songs for her for South Pacific, knowing she had a small vocal range, and the songs generally made her look her best. She also said that Rodgers and Hammerstein listened to all her suggestions and she worked extremely well with them. Both Rodgers and Hammerstein wanted Doris Day for the lead in the film version of South Pacific and she reportedly wanted the part. They discussed it with her, but after her manager/husband Martin Melcher would not budge on his demand for a high salary for her, the role went to Mitzi Gaynor. In 1930, Rodgers married Dorothy Belle Feiner (1909–92).[13] Their daughter, Mary (1931–2014), was the composer of Once Upon a Mattress and an author of children's books.[14] The Rodgerses later lost a daughter at birth. Another daughter, Linda (1935–2015), also had a brief career as a songwriter. Mary's son and Richard Rodgers's grandson, Adam Guettel (b. 1964), also a musical theatre composer, won Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestrations for The Light in the Piazza in 2005. Peter Melnick (b. 1958), Linda Rodgers's son, is the composer of Adrift In Macao, which debuted at the Philadelphia Theatre Company in 2005 and was produced Off-Broadway in 2007.

Richard L Rodgers of Andrews County, TX was born circa 1940. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Richard L. Rodgers.

Richard Charles Rodgers of Vacaville, Solano County, California was born on July 6, 1940, and died at age 69 years old on December 4, 2009. Richard Rodgers was buried at Bg William C Doyle Vet's Mem Cem Section O4 Site 1445 Provinceline Road, in Wrightstown, Nj.

Richard Arthur Rodgers of Richmond Australia was born in 1917 in Richmond. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Richard Arthur Rodgers.

Richard Guy Rodgers of Conroe, Montgomery County, TX was born on November 24, 1931, and died at age 72 years old on November 17, 2004. Richard Rodgers was buried at Arkansas State Veterans Cemetery Section L Site 67 1501 West Maryland, in North Little Rock, Ar.

Richard Anthony Rodgers was born on September 6, 1942, and died at age 53 years old on January 13, 1996. Richard Rodgers was buried at Quantico National Cemetery Section 6 Site 92 18424 Joplin Road (route 619), in Triangle, Va. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Richard Anthony Rodgers.

Richard D Rodgers Sr of Saint Louis, Saint Louis County, MO was born on February 17, 1915, and died at age 63 years old on December 11, 1978. Richard Rodgers was buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery Section T Site 1145 2900 Sheridan Road, in St. Louis.

Richard E Rodgers was born on October 26, 1918, and died at age 72 years old on October 8, 1991. Richard Rodgers was buried at Eagle Point National Cemetery Section A Site 1399 2763 Riley Road, in Eagle Point, Or. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Richard E Rodgers.

Richard Rodgers of New York, New York County, NY was born on April 29, 1917, and died at age 54 years old on March 21, 1972. Richard Rodgers was buried at Long Island National Cemetery Section 2Y Site 2770 2040 Wellwood Avenue, in Farmingdale.

Richard J Rodgers of Pittsfield, Somerset County, ME was born on March 7, 1920, and died at age 79 years old on July 21, 1999. Richard Rodgers was buried at Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery Section Q Row 45 Site 3 Box 916a - Old Belgrade Road, in Augusta.

Richard D Rodgers of Independence, Jackson County, MO was born on July 18, 1935, and died at age 59 years old on June 20, 1995. Richard Rodgers was buried at Leavenworth National Cemetery Section 41 Site 11 150 Muncie Road, in Leavenworth, Ks.

Richard W Rodgers of Childress County, TX was born circa 1941. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Richard W. Rodgers.