Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1902, June 28 | Born to Dr. William and Mamie (Levy) Rodgers, New York City |
1917 | Composed music for the amateur production One Minute Please |
1919 | Composed music for the amateur production Up Stage and Down |
1919, Dec. 19 | First collaborated with Lorenz Hart |
1919-1921 | Attended Columbia University |
1920 | Composed music for the amateur productions You'd Be Surprised and Fly With Me, and his first professional production Poor Little Ritz Girl |
1921 | Composed music for the amateur productions Say Mama, You'll Never Know and Say It With Jazz |
1921-1923 | Attended Institute of Musical Art (Juilliard) |
1922 | Composed music for the amateur productions The Chinese Lantern and Jazz a la Carte |
1923 | Composed music for the amateur productions If I Were King and A Danish Yankee in King Tut's Court |
1924 | Composed music for the amateur production Temple Bells and The Prisoner of Zenda, and the professional production The Melody Man |
1925 | Composed music for his last amateur production Bad Habits of 1925, and professional productions The Garrick Gaieties and Dearest Enemy |
1926 | Composed music for the night club revue The Fifth Avenue Follies and the shows The Girl Friend, The Garrick Gaieties, Lido Lady London) Peggy-Ann and Betsy |
1927 | Composed music for the shows One Dam Thing After Another (London) and A Connecticut Yankee |
1928 | Composed music for the shows She's My Baby, Present Arms and Chee-Chee |
1929 | Composed music for the shows Spring Is Here and Heads Up! (London) |
1930 | Composed music for the shows Simple Simon and Evergreen (London) |
1930, Mar. 5 | Married Dorothy Feiner (died 1992) |
1931, Jan. 11 | Daughter, Mary Rodgers born |
1931 | Composed music for the shows America's Sweetheart and The Hot Heiress (film) |
1932 | Composed music for the films Love Me Tonight and The Phantom President |
1933 | Composed music for the film Hallelujah, I'm a Bum |
1934 | Composed music for the film Hollywood Party |
1935, Mar. 5 | Daughter, Linda Rodgers born |
1935 | Composed music for the shows Mississippi (film) and Jumbo |
1936 | Composed music for the shows On Your Toes and Dancing Pirate (film) |
1937 | Composed music for the shows Babes in Arms and I'd Rather Be Right |
1938 | Composed music for the shows Fools For Scandal (film), I Married An Angel and The Boys From Syracuse |
1939 | Composed music for the shows Too Many Girls and Ghost Town (ballet) |
1940 | Composed music for the shows Higher and Higher and Pal Joey |
1941 | Composed music for the film They Met in Argentina |
1942 | Composed music for the show By Jupiter |
1943 | Composed additional music for a revival of A Connecticut Yankee, and composed music for his first show collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II -- Oklahoma! |
1945 | Composed music for the shows Carousel and State Fair (film) |
1947 | Composed music for the show Allegro |
1949 | Composed music for the show South Pacific |
1951 | Composed music for the show The King And I |
1952 | Composed background score for the television documentary Victory at Sea |
1953 | Composed music for the show Me and Juliet |
1955 | Composed music for the show Pipe Dream |
1957 | Composed music for the television musical Cinderella (remade in 1965 with an additional song) |
1958 | Composed music for the show Flower Drum Song |
1959 | Composed music for the show The Sound of Music |
1960 | Composed background score for television documentary Winston Churchill--The Valiant Years |
1962 | Wrote music and lyrics for the show No Strings, and additional songs for the remake of the film State Fair |
1962-1969 | President and producing director, Music Theater of Lincoln Center |
1965 | Composed music, with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, for the show Do I Hear a Waltz?, and wrote music and lyrics for songs added to the film version of The Sound of Music |
1967 | Wrote music and lyrics for the television musical Androcles and The Lion |
1970 | Composed music, with lyrics by Martin Charnin, for the show Two by Two |
1976 | Composed music, with lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, for the show Rex |
1979 | Composed music, with lyrics by Martin Charnin and Raymond Jessel, for the show I Remember Mama |
1979, Dec. 30 | Died, New York City |