728 stories from The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization
In October, Agnes de Mille died in her home in New York City at the age of 88.
Although it has been nearly 35 years since Rodgers & Hammerstein's final collaboration, THE SOUND OF MUSIC, took the Great White Way by storm, it was in fact a new Rodgers & Hammerstein musi…
While most well known for its representation of classic and standard catalogues, Williamson Music is also committed to supporting outstanding new songwriters.
Grammy Award winning recording artist and television star Marie Osmond makes her stage debut as Maria von Trapp in a new national tour of THE SOUND OF MUSIC.
Both sides of the Atlantic will play host to CAROUSEL this season as the Royal National Theatre production continues in the West End, and comes to Broadway.
Since its premiere in 1927, Kern and Hammerstein's SHOW BOAT has never stopped moving.
David Fanshawe's AFRICAN SANCTUS is a unique composition in the choral repertoire, a crossover work that mixes media - voice, instrument, and audio tape - as it mixes styles, cultures and tr…
Vaunting twelve years of Republican rule, a new Democrat sweeps into Washington
As anyone who has ever worked in the musical theatre can attest, there are few moments in the production process as exhilarating as hearing the orchestra for the first time.
Broadway Angel, a division of Angel Records, will release the 1994 Broadway cast album of CAROUSEL in June.
From Laurey and Curly in the surrey with the fringe on top, to Maria atop her mountain, classic images in brand new formats grace the covers of a dozen Rodgers & Hammerstein songbooks publis…
Summer is a banner season for The R&H Concert Library, as hundreds of orchestras across the country take their music outdoors and perform in parks, bandshells and amphitheatres.
"CAROUSEL will be 50 next year, but as of this morning it is the freshest, most innovative musical on Broadway."
On Saturday March 19 on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Symphony Space presented its 24th annual day-long "Wall to Wall" concert symposium event, this year devoted to the words and music of Irv…
Its challenging, innovative form has made ALLEGRO controversial ever since it opened on Broadway in 1947.
n 1992, Williamson Music (the publishing arm of The R&H Organization) began serving as the exclusive U.S. and Canadian administrator for Elvis Presley's music catalogues.
The R&H Theatre Library was built by musical theatre giants
This summer the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, under the baton of maestro John Mauceri, featured the world premiere of Irving Berlin's "Patriotic Overture,"
The new Broadway production of CAROUSEL triumphed at the 1994 Tony Awards in June, winning every award it was nominated for.
From the opening paragraph of Mary Ellin Barrett's memoir, as she describes her father's long - abandoned bachelor apartment shortly after his death, the reader realizes this is an adventure…
While CD remasters of great Broadway albums continue to be released in record numbers, the great art of making new cast recordings still flourishes.
SHOW BOAT was back on Broadway in 1946, and Bill Hammerstein was there too, fresh from four years' active service in the U.S. Navy (doing research, he later quipped, for SOUTH PACIFIC).
Proud to represent its founders, The Rodgers & Hammerstein Concert Library is also home to orchestral works of Berlin, Kern, Weill, Porter, Lloyd Webber and others.
1994 - The year in film, as recalled by the staff at Williamson Music:
You've seen [Harold] Prince's KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, the revivals of CAROUSEL and GUYS AND DOLLS, TOMMY, LES MISRABLES and at least one show by Andrew Lloyd Webber," intoned Vincent Canby…
