Era filho de um proeminente empresário de operas e começou a carreira escrevendo peças e livretos em 1917. No início da carreira, trabalhou com Jerome Kern e George Gershwin e alcançou a fama através dos musicais de sua autoria "Rose Marie" e "Showboat".
No inicio da década de 40 deu inicio a profícua parceria com Richard Rogers que resultou em musicais e filmes de grande sucesso como "Carousel", "South Pacific", "Flower Drum Song" e "The King and I".
Harmmerstein ganhou dois Oscars pelas canções The Last Time I Saw Paris (do filme de 1942 “Lady Be Good”) e “It MIght as Well Be Spring”( do filme de 1945 “State Fair”). Mas, a sua mais famosa e inesquecivel composição, permanece sendo “Ol' Man River” gravada por inúmeros cantores de realce como, Frank Sinatra.
Oscar hammerstein faleceu em 1960.
Clique para para ouvir Aretha Franklin tocando e cantando "Ol' Man River" com o Primeiro- Casal americano na platéia..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkBciad6s_s
Clique para para ouvir Aretha Franklin tocando e cantando "Ol' Man River" com o Primeiro- Casal americano na platéia..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkBciad6s_s
Oscar Greeley Clendinning Hammerstein II aka,Oscar Hammerstein II was one of the 20th century's most influential writers of musical plays, a lyricist who collaborated with composer Richard Rodgers on some of the most successful musicals in U.S. history, including "Oklahoma!" and "The Sound of Music".
The son of a noted New York opera impresario, Hammerstein began writing plays and librettos in 1917. Early in his career he worked with Jerome Kern and George Gershwin and made a name for himself with musicals such as Rose Marie and Showboat.
In the early 1940s he began a long collaboration with Rodgers that resulted in many successful stage musicals and movies, including Carousel, South Pacific, Flower Drum Song and The King and I. Hammerstein won Oscars for the songs "The Last Time I Saw Paris" (from 1941's Lady Be Good) and "It Might As Well Be Spring" (from 1945's State Fair), but his most famous song is probably "Ol' Man River."
Reference –ATJ
Tradução – Humberto Amorim
Tradução – Humberto Amorim
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