Composers Flashcards
George M(ichael) Cohan
1878-1942 American composer, entertainer, y playwright from RI - Wrote songs Over There (1917); Give My Regards to Broadway (1904); You’re a Grand Old Flag (1906); The Yankee Doodle Boy (1904) - Considered the father of American musical comedy, y known as “the man who owned Broadway” - His life depicted in the film Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942); y the musical George M! (1968)
Stephen Sondheim
1930- American composer y lyricist from NYC - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962); A Little Night Music (1973); Sweeney Todd (1979); Company (1970); Sunday in the Park with George (1984); Into the Woods (1987); Assassins (1990); Road Show (2008) - 8 Tonys (most for a composer); Oscar for song “Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)” from Dick Tracy (1990); Pulitzer in Drama for Sunday in the Park with George (1984); 8 Grammy awards; Pres Medal of Freedom (2015)
Lorenz (Milton) Hart
1895-1943 American lyricist from NYC - Partners with Richard Rodgers from 1919-42 - Wrote many American standard songs incl. Manhattan (1925); The Lady is a Tramp (1937 - from musical Babes in Arms); My Funny Valentine (1937); Isn’t it Romantic? (1932); Blue Moon (1934); Mountain Greenery (1926)
Richard (Charles) Rodgers
1902-1979 American composer from NYC - Partners with Lorenz Hart then Oscar Hammerstein II - 1st to win Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony, and Pulitzer (one of two, with Marvin Hamlisch) - Babes in Arms (1937); Pal Joey (1940); Oklahoma (1943); Carousel (1945); South Pacific (1949); The King and I (1951); The Sound of Music (1959)
Oscar (Greeley Clendenning) Hammerstein II
1895-1960 American librettist y producer from NYC - Won 8 Tonys y 2 Oscars - Wrote songs Ol’ Man River (1927 - from Show Boat); Oklahoma (1947); Some Enchanted Evening (1949 - from South Pacific); Getting to Know You (1951 - The King and I); Climb Ev’ry Mountain (1959 - The Sound of Music)
Marvin (Frederick) Hamlisch
1944-2012 American composer y conductor from NYC - One of 2 to win EGOT y Pulitzer (with Richard Rodgers) - A Chorus Line (1975); The Goodbye Girl (1993); Imaginary Friends (2002) - Attended Julliard at age 7
Claude-Michel Schönberg
1944- French producer - La Révolution Française (1973), Les Misérables (1980), Miss Saigon (1989), Martin Guerre (1996)
Cole Porter
1891-1964 American Broadway songwriter y composer - Wrote the musicals Kiss Me Kate (1948); Anything Goes (1934); Silk Stockings (1955) - Wrote songs Night and Day; I Get a Kick Out of You; I’ve Got You Under My Skin
Tim (Miles Bindon) Rice
1944- English lyricist - Known for work on the musicals Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1970); Jesus Christ Superstar (1970); Evita (1978); Chess (1986); Aida (1998); y the films The Lion King (1994); Aladdin (1992); Beauty and the Beast (1991) - Knighted in 1994
Fred Ebb
1928-2004 American lyricist from NYC - Partnered with composer John Kander on Cabaret (1966); Chicago (1975); Woman of the Year (1981); Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993); Fosse (1999)
