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Oscar Hammerstein II. Writer: State Fair. Oscar Hammerstein II was an American lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and musical theatre director from New York City. He won a total of 8 Tony Awards for his best known works, "South Pacific" (1949), "The King and I" (1951), and "The Sound of Music" (1959). He twice won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, for his songs "The Last Time I ...
Oscar Hammerstein II. (Nueva York, 1895-1960) Libretista y comediógrafo estadounidense. Era sobrino del empresario de ópera norteamericano, de origen alemán, Oscar Hammerstein I, propietario del Manhattan Opera House. El ambiente artístico que respiró en su entorno familiar desde su niñez le condujo a orientar sus pasos profesionales por ...
Oscar Hammerstein II was born on July 12, 1895 in New York City. His father William was a theatre manager and, for many years, director of Hammerstein’s Victoria, the most popular vaudeville theatre of its day. His uncle, Arthur Hammerstein, was a successful Broadway producer and his grandfather, Oscar Hammerstein, a famous opera impresario.
Oscar Hammerstein II. Writer: State Fair. Oscar Hammerstein II was an American lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and musical theatre director from New York City. He won a total of 8 Tony Awards for his best known works, "South Pacific" (1949), "The King and I" (1951), and "The Sound of Music" (1959). He twice won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, for his songs "The Last Time I ...
12 de jul. de 2022 · Adam Gopnik writes about a collection of Oscar Hammerstein II’s letters, and how the correspondence casts light on the iconic Broadway lyricist and librettist’s mastery of the theatrical ...
20 de jun. de 2022 · A thousand pages of correspondence by Oscar Hammerstein II, the lyricist for such musicals as Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel and The Sound of Music are available to a wide public for the first time.
Hammerstein served as a mentor to Alan Jay Lerner, and had an especially close relationship as mentor to the young Stephen Sondheim. His best lyrics are characterized by an outer simplicity and inner depth of feeling, as well as a sharp attention to character. Oscar Hammerstein II died on August 23, 1960 at Highland Farms, Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
