URichard Rodgers |

URichard Rodgers

Omunye wabaqambi abadumile baseMelika, inkundla yomculo yaseMelika uRichard Rogers wazalelwa eNew York ngoJuni 28, 1902 emndenini kadokotela. Umkhathi wendlu wawugcwele umculo, futhi kusukela eneminyaka emine umfana wathatha izingoma ezijwayelekile epiyano, futhi eneminyaka eyishumi nane waqala ukuqamba. Iqhawe lakhe kanye nesibonelo sakhe kwakunguJerome Kern.

Ngo-1916, u-Dick wabhala umculo wakhe wokuqala waseshashalazini, izingoma ze-comedy One Minute Please. Ngo-1918, wangena e-Columbia University, lapho ahlangana khona noLawrence Hart, owafunda izincwadi nolimi lapho futhi ngesikhathi esifanayo esebenza endaweni yeshashalazi njengomlobi nomhumushi wama-operetta aseViennese. Umsebenzi ohlanganyelwe kaRogers noHart wathatha cishe ingxenye yesine yekhulunyaka futhi waholela ekwakhiweni kwemidlalo yeshashalazi cishe engamashumi amathathu. Ngemuva kokubuyekezwa kwabafundi enyuvesi, lena imidlalo ye-The Girlfriend (1926), The Connecticut Yankee (1927) neminye yemidlalo yaseshashalazini ye-Broadway. Ngesikhathi esifanayo, uRogers, engacabangi ngemfundo yakhe yomculo eyanele, useneminyaka emithathu efunda e-New York Institute of Music, lapho efunda khona izifundo zomculo futhi eqhuba.

Umculo kaRodgers uya ngokuya uduma. Ngo-1931, yena noHart bamenyelwa eHollywood. Umphumela wokuhlala iminyaka emithathu enhloko-dolobha yombuso wefilimu ungomunye wamafilimu omculo ahamba phambili angaleso sikhathi, i-Love Me in the Night.

Ababhali ababambisene nabo babuyela eNew York begcwele izinhlelo ezintsha. Eminyakeni eyalandela, kukhona i-On Pointe Shoes (1936), The Recruits (1937), I Married an Angel (1938), The Syracuse Boys (1938), Buddy Joy (1940), I Swear by Jupiter (1942).

Ngemva kokushona kukaHart, uRogers usebenzisana nomunye u-freetist. Lona ngomunye odume kakhulu eMelika, umbhali we-libretto ka-Rose Marie kanye neTheatre Floating, u-Oscar Hammerstein. Naye, uRogers udala ama-operetta ayisishiyagalolunye, okuhlanganisa ne-Oklahoma edumile (1943).

Iphothifoliyo yokudala yomqambi ihlanganisa umculo wamafilimu, izingoma, imisebenzi yomculo engaphezu kwamashumi amane neyeshashalazi. Ngaphezu kwalezi ezibalwe ngenhla, lezi ngoCarousel (1945), Allegro (1947), In the South Pacific (1949), The King and I (1951), Me and Juliet (1953), The Impossible Dream “(1955), "Ingoma Yesigubhu Sezimbali" (1958), "Umsindo Womculo" (1959), njll.

L. Mikheeva, A. Orelovich