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| | Oscar Hammerstein biography - 8notes.com |
 | | His grandfather, Oscar Hammerstein I, was an opera impresario, and his uncle was a successful Broadway producer. |
 | | Hammerstein continued to work with Kern and operetta composer Sigmund Romberg, among others, over the next several years on shows such as Sweet Adeline, Music in the Air, and Very Warm for May, a critical failure which nevertheless contained one of Kern and Hammerstein's loveliest songs, 'All the Things You Are.' |
 | | Hammerstein began his most successful and sustained collaboration in 1943 when he teamed up with Richard Rodgers, whose regular partner, Lorenz Hart, was uninterested in the material, to write a musical based on Lynn Riggs' play Green Grow the Lilacs. |
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