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  Richard Rodgers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Rodgers (June 18, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was one of the great composers of musical theater, best known for his song writing partnerships with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Rodgers' daughter, Mary, is the composer of Once Upon A Mattress and an author of children's books.
Rodgers' grandson, Adam Guettel, also a musical theatre composer, recently won the 2005 Tony Award for Best Score and Best Orchestrations for The Light In The Piazza.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Rodgers   (680 words)

  
 'R' ENTRIES - Page 4 on the COMPOSERS - LYRICISTS DATABASE
Rodgers has said that his family was able to provide him with a good education, and while not a 'rich' family, he didn't have any worries growing up.
Rodgers was the type of writer who first had to know the 'plot' and then to think deeply of the character that was to sing his song.
Rodgers remembered that he and Hart had been riding in a Paris Cab with two young ladies, when the car had a near accident.
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 Rodgers Tavern
Two of the sons, John Rodgers and George Washington Rodgers served as commodores in the Navy, and a third, Thomas Rodgers, was a physician.
Rodgers Tavern continued to be run as a tavern by Elizabeth Rodgers and later other tavern keepers until at least 1886.
Historic Rodgers Tavern was purchased from the Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities on October 5, 1993.
www.perryvillemd.org /rodgers.htm   (858 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Version - PS 166 declares Rodgers
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"This is the only school Daddy graduated from," his daughter Mary Rodgers, herself a composer, told the students and their parents in the ceremony on the school playground.
Mary Rodgers took an interest in the school when she served as Principal for a Day, a program of PENCIL (Public Education Needs Civic Involvement in Learning).
Mary Rodgers and her sister Linda, who also attended the ceremony, have made financial and other contributions to the school, including a portrait of their father by Mary Rodgers' daughter Kim Beaty.
www.nydailynews.com /boroughs/v-pfriendly/story/91212p-82915c.html   (353 words)

  
 University of Maryland Mini-Med School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mary M. Rodgers, PT, PhD, is professor and Chair of the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Research Health Scientist at the Veterans Administration Health Care System.
Rodgers received her Bachelors degree in physical therapy and her Masters degree in medical allied health, with a double major in biomechanics and education.
Rodgers came to Maryland in 1994, after serving as a faculty member at West Virginia University and then at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.
medschool.umaryland.edu /minimed/Rodgers.htm   (243 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Mary Rodgers Guettel, Chairman of the Board since 1994, has announced that she will step down from her position at that time; she continues as a Trustee of the School.
As Vice President of The Rodgers Family Foundation (her father is Juilliard alumnus Richard Rodgers) she has contributed generously to the Richard Rodgers Memorial Fund Scholarship in Drama and the Richard Rodgers Scholarship in Composition.
Known for her wit and spontaneity, Mary Rodgers Guettel is familiar with and well liked by the young artists studying at Juilliard.
www.juilliard.edu /update/press/32current_releases_story.html   (1006 words)

  
 NEA President's Corner
William Rodgers is the Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Associate Professor of Economics at the College of William and Mary and a member of the Wilkins Forum at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute.
Professor Rodgers chairs William and Mary’s Committee on Employee Opportunity, whose charge is to study and make recommendations on how to improve the paths of personal advancement and professional growth of the College’s classified, part-time and contract work force.
Currently, Professor Rodgers is President of the National Economic Association, co-chair of the Planning Committee of the United Way of Greater Williamsburg and a member of the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Minorities in the Economics Profession.
www.ncat.edu /~neconasc/president2003.html   (475 words)

  
 A musical guardian / Mary Rodgers helps control use of dad's tunes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Her father, Richard Rodgers, composed the music, and his eldest child seems not to have forgotten a note of it.
The last big Rodgers and Hammerstein tour, of a starless "Carousel" directed by Nicholas Hytner, was an artistic triumph and a financial disaster.
In one of her treasured memories of him, Mary Rodgers' father is a kind of innocent, a composer who couldn't help doing good.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/07/21/PK198262.DTL   (670 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Land Of The Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Elizabeth Rodgers, an English Girl in Minnesota, New ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, called Polly by her family, is the fourteen-year-old daughter of a Baptist minister.
The Rodgers and their fellow settlers face the bitter cold of winter and the scorching heat of summer, endless blizzards, a disastrous plague of locusts, as well as illness and death.
Mary Elizabeth, or Polly, is caught up in the dramatic jorney to the harsh, cold, badlands of Minnesota, Land of the Buffalo Bones from her safe home in her native land of England.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0439220270?v=glance   (1913 words)

  
 Mary Rodgers Guettel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mary Rodgers Guettel is a director of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization that handles the work of her father, Richard Rodgers, as well as Oscar Hammerstein, Irving Berlin and others.
At age 66, she is also a board member of ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) and chairman of the board of the Juilliard School in New York.
It was probably a lot easier for me in that even though there were people walking around saying 'Richard Rodgers' daughter must be insane trying to compose music' -- at least I was in the environment where it wasn't quite as difficult as if I'd come from some remote small town.
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 USM de Grummond Collection - MARY RODGERS PAPERS
Material was donated by Mary Rodgers in 1975.
Mary Rodgers was born in 1931 in New York, the daughter of composer Richard Rodgers.
Rodgers' books for children frequently center on humorous and fantastic plots.
www.lib.usm.edu /~degrum/html/research/findaids/rodgers.htm   (338 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Elizabeth Rodgers, an English Girl in Minnesota   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Tells of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, a fourteen year old girl whose father is an English priest and decides to move Mary Ann and a band of English immigrants to Minnesota.
Land of the Buffalo Bones is the story of Polly Rodgers, a young girl whose father is a Baptist minster who organizes 80 religously persecuted Baptists in Yeovil, England, to colonize the Minnesota Territory in the New Yeovil Colony.
Although the advertisments and her father's false words tell of a wonderful and bountiful country, the 80 colonists come upon a surprise when they reach the colony--which isn't built, is covered in snow, and is in the middle of nowhere with no trees or parks or houses or anything of the sort that was promised.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0439220270   (1165 words)

  
 St. B's: Summer '94 - Mary Rodgers Guettel
As a child Mary Rodgers lived in what she considered a completely normal household--as normal as a household could be with the likes of Marlene Dietrich and Mary Martin sitting around the dining room table.
But Mary, a Brearley girl, was usually in her room wrestling with homework, and in any case autograph-seeking simply was not done.
Moreover, Mary and her sister were not allowed to have the radio on just as background noise.
www.stbernards.org /newslet/no14_p3.html   (966 words)

  
 Mary T. Rodgers
Rodgers, Sherrie Campbell, Elaine M. Marzluff and J. Beauchamp, "Low-Energy Collision-Induced Dissociation of Deprotonated Dinucleotides: Determination of the Energetically-Favored Dissociation Pathways and the Relative Acidities of the Nucleic Acid Bases," Int.
Rodgers, "Substituent Effects in the Binding of Alkali Metal Ions to Pyridines, Studied by Threshold Collision-Induced Dissociation and Ab Initio Theory: The Methylpyridines", J.
Rodgers, "Substituent Effects in the Binding of Alkali Metal Ions to Pyridines, Studied by Threshold Collision-Induced Dissociation and Ab Initio Theory: The Aminopyridines", J.
www.chem.wayne.edu /~mrodgers   (5813 words)

  
 Great Performances . Dialogue . Mary Rodgers | PBS
Mary Rodgers, the daughter of Richard Rodgers, is an author and a composer in her own right; her Broadway credits include the 1959 musical "Once Upon a Mattress," which launched the career of Carol Burnett.
The subject matter wouldn't have brought it out, and the art form hadn't advanced to the point where you could present extended musical ideas.
But Daddy was secure about his talent, and he knew that there was only one Richard Rodgers, like there was only one Frank Loesser, one Cole Porter.
www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/dialogue/dialogue_mrodgers.html   (873 words)

  
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February's gala evening, The Richard Rodgers Centennial -- A Juilliard Celebration, takes place in the Juilliard Theater, and honors two people important to Juilliard, alumnus Richard Rodgers, on the occasion of his centennial, and his daughter, Juilliard Trustee Mary Rodgers Guettel, who recently completed her tenure as Chairman of the School's Board of Trustees.
Part of the funds raised will be applied to endowing and naming the Richard Rodgers Director of the Drama Division, a position that has been held since 1992 by the distinguished educator and director, Michael Kahn.
Mary Rodgers Guettel is a respected composer in her own right, whose works include the enduringly popular musical Once Upon a Mattress, and for theater and television Hot Spot, The Mad Show, Young Mark Twain, the revue Hey, Love, and Marlo Thomas's Free to Be...You and Me.
www.juilliard.edu /press/archive/pr082201.html   (659 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Mary Martin Sings, Richard Rodgers Plays: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mary Martin rarely made solo recordings during her long tenure as a Broadway star and Richard Rodgers was rarely ever heard playing his own music on a recording.
The album is a collections of songs Rodgers wrote with Oscar Hammerstein and Lorenz Hart, with Martin providing the vocals and Rodgers featured on piano, with a full orchestra.
Rodgers is featured on piano in certain sections of each song and it's fun to hear him play in intimate arrangements of his music.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000003F23?v=glance   (994 words)

  
 NPR : Easy To Remember: A Centennial Tribute to Richard Rodgers
With the premiere of Babes In Arms, Rodgers and Hart become the first team to write their own story, dialogue and songs for a Broadway show.
Rodgers and Hammerstein have four shows running simultaneously in New York.
Rodgers and Hammerstein Week in New York, August 31 - September 6.
www.npr.org /programs/specials/rr100/timeline.html   (650 words)

  
 Playbill Features: A Wild & Crazy Guy: Mary Rodgers Remembers Mattress Lyricist, Marshall Barer
At the time, Rodgers said of her collaborator, "Marshall is an incredibly talented man in a lot of different areas.
Rodgers remembers further: "Once I was invited to a party at his house, and I brought a bunch of Upper East Side type friends.
Rodgers and Barer also penned five songs for 1966's aforementioned Off-Broadway smash, The Mad Show and later collaborated on a musical adaptation of Member of the Wedding.
www.playbill.com /features/article/64806.html   (903 words)

  
 Thirteen/WNET - Online Pressroom - Press Release
While he was determined to thoroughly examine the extraordinary range of the music, producer and director Sherman also wanted to explore the complexities and contradictions of the man. "In candid interviews, his own daughters provide poignant insight into their father - foibles and all," Sherman says.
Rodgers' composing acumen is thoroughly explored during a series of what Sherman calls "sessions" that feature, among others, cabaret singers Maureen McGovern and Mary Cleere Haran and jazz pianists Barbara Carroll and Billy Taylor.
Rodgers made a remarkably smooth transition to Hammerstein, who flipped the Rodgers and Hart formula of music first, lyrics second.
www.thirteen.org /pressroom/release.php?get=220   (1563 words)

  
 Ancestors of Mary Jane "Versey" Leas
Mary and Luella Rogers lived with the family of William Hardin in New London Township in 1860:
Mary Lee, age 55, female, married, born in Indiana, both parents native born.
Mary married Hugh Rodgers, son of Joseph Rodgers and Catherine Hughes, on January 29, 1852 in Henry County, Iowa.
www.brumm.com /familytrees/1129.htm   (614 words)

  
 John W. Rodgers b. ca 1796
At Dwelling #442; Family #442 was Elizabeth Rodgers, Mary A. Rodgers and Mary A. Barnes.
Marriage Notes for WILLIAM RODGERS and MARY RAY: He lived with Mary Ray for several years, but she was a Catholic and couldn't marry a divorced man. They are buried together at Bethesda.
Lena Florence, daughter of William Carl and Mary Cisela (Stuart) Rodgers was born at 11:00 A.M., Friday, August 22, 1890 at Saline City, Clay County, IN.
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 Mary Rodgers -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mary Rodgers -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Mary Rodgers (born January 11, 1931) is a composer of (A play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing) musicals, an author of children's books, and daughter of (United States composer of musical comedies (especially in collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II and with Lorenz Hart) (1902-1979)) Richard Rodgers.
She also compiled the album (Click link for more info and facts about Free to Be...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/mary_rodgers.htm   (130 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Musical Stages: An Autobiography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The ensuing years of toil and disappointment nearly convinced the young composer to abandon the theater for the security of a salesman's job in the clothing industry, but the overnight success of The Garrick Gaieties in 1925 determined his career.
Ultimately, Rodgers wrote the scores for over forty Broadway musicals and collaborated with two of the world's greatest lyricists, the brilliantly talented but tormented Hart, and the sturdier but equally inspired Oscar Hammerstein II.
We could have been spared the biography of Richard Rodger's grandfather, and we didn't really need to know how much the Rodgers's resented their house sitters (tenants), but overall this is enjoyable to read.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0306806347   (575 words)

  
 Reading Review book audio review - Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers. Read by Suzannah Fellows.
This is an audio version of the book Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers.
Suzannah uses quite a bit of expression during the reading and is a lot of fun to listen to.
Mary Rodgers has created a fun novel for any young adult to enjoy, whether it being in book or audio book format.
www.readingreview.com /freakyfriday-audio.html   (594 words)

  
 Used Book Central Search / author: Rodgers, Mary
Rodgers- Mary: NEW Juvenile Grades 4-6 Harpercollins Childrens Books BOOK-PAPER When they discover an old TV that plays tomorrow's programs- fourteen-year- old Annabel and her fifteen-year-old friend Boris try to use it to help mankind and earn money to renovate Boris' eccentric mother.
Rodgers- Mary: NEW Juvenile Grades 7-9 Harpercollins Childrens Books BOOK-PAPER A thirteen-year-old girl gains a much more sympathetic understanding of her relationship with her mother when she has to spend a day in her mother's body.
Rodgers, Mary: Scholastic Inc. Annabel and her mom switch places.
www.usedbookcentral.com /texis/ubc/searchbooks,author,Rodgers_Mary.html   (612 words)

  
 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Having published his first song when he was only fifteen years old, Rodgers went on to create some of the most instantly recognizable and most beautiful melodies in the history of the American musical.
The Museum's series will include Rodgers appearing on tributes, talk shows, and variety series, where his songs were performed for an eager public.
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s one original work for television, Cinderella, with Julie Andrews in the lead, became one of the highest-rated specials in history.
mtr.inet7.com /PressRoom/pressRelease/03112002.htm   (684 words)

  
 FACULTY MEMBERS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Research in Dr. Rodger’s group is interdisciplinary in nature, making use of state of the art physical and analytical techniques to study problems of biological importance.
Research efforts are aimed at achieving a better under-standing of the interplay of structure and function in biological systems.
"Substituent Effects in the Binding of Alkali Metal Ions to Pyridines, Studied by Threshold Collision-Induced Dissociation and ab Initio Theory: The Methylpyridines." Rodgers, M. Phys.
www.chem.wayne.edu /faculty/rodgers/body.html   (431 words)

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