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Richard Rodgers

Mmodzi wa oimba wotchuka American, tingachipeze powerenga American nyimbo zisudzo Richard Rogers anabadwira ku New York June 28, 1902 m'banja la dokotala. Mkhalidwe wa nyumbayo unali wodzaza ndi nyimbo, ndipo kuyambira ali ndi zaka zinayi mnyamatayo adatenga nyimbo zodziwika bwino pa piyano, ndipo pa khumi ndi zinayi anayamba kulemba. Ngwazi yake komanso chitsanzo chake anali Jerome Kern.

Mu 1916, Dick analemba nyimbo yake yoyamba ya zisudzo, nyimbo za comedy One Minute Please. Mu 1918, analowa payunivesite ya Columbia, kumene anakumana ndi Lawrence Hart, amene anaphunzira mabuku ndi chinenero kumeneko ndipo panthaŵi imodzimodziyo anagwira ntchito m’bwalo la zisudzo monga wolemba revue ndi womasulira wa operetta wa ku Viennese. Ntchito yolumikizana ya Rogers ndi Hart idatenga pafupifupi kotala la zaka zana ndikupangitsa kuti pakhale masewero pafupifupi makumi atatu. Pambuyo pa ndemanga za ophunzira ku yunivesite, awa ndi machitidwe a The Girlfriend (1926), The Connecticut Yankee (1927) ndi ena a Broadway theatre. Panthawi imodzimodziyo, Rogers, osaganizira maphunziro ake oimba mokwanira, wakhala akuphunzira ku New York Institute of Music kwa zaka zitatu, kumene amaphunzira maphunziro a nyimbo ndi kuchititsa.

Nyimbo za Rodgers pang'onopang'ono zikuyamba kutchuka. Mu 1931, iye ndi Hart anaitanidwa ku Hollywood. Chotsatira cha kukhala zaka zitatu mu likulu la ufumu wa filimuyi ndi imodzi mwa mafilimu abwino kwambiri a nthawi imeneyo, Love Me in the Night.

Olemba nawo abwerera ku New York odzaza ndi mapulani atsopano. M'zaka zotsatira, pali On Pointe Shoes (1936), The Recruits (1937), I Married an Angel (1938), The Syracuse Boys (1938), Buddy Joy (1940), I Swear by Jupiter (1942).

Pambuyo pa imfa ya Hart, Rogers amagwira ntchito limodzi ndi womasulira wina. Uyu ndi m'modzi mwa otchuka kwambiri ku America, mlembi wa libretto ya Rose Marie ndi The Floating Theatre, Oscar Hammerstein. Ndi iye, Rogers amapanga operettas zisanu ndi zinayi, kuphatikizapo Oklahoma wotchuka (1943).

Zolemba zopanga za wolembayo zimaphatikizapo nyimbo zamakanema, nyimbo, nyimbo zopitilira makumi anayi ndi zisudzo. Kuphatikiza pa zomwe zatchulidwa pamwambapa, awa ndi Carousel (1945), Allegro (1947), Ku South Pacific (1949), The King and I (1951), Me and Juliet (1953), The Impossible Dream "(1955), "The Song of the Flower Drum" (1958), "Sound of Music" (1959), etc.

L. Mikheeva, A. Orelovich