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Richard Rodgers

Daya daga cikin mashahuran mawakan Amurka, classic American wasan kwaikwayo Richard Rogers an haife shi a New York ranar 28 ga Yuni, 1902 a cikin dangin likita. Yanayin gidan ya cika da kade-kade, kuma tun yana dan shekara hudu yaron ya dauki wakokin da aka saba a cikin piano, kuma a sha hudu ya fara tsarawa. Jaruminsa kuma abin koyi shine Jerome Kern.

A cikin 1916, Dick ya rubuta kiɗan wasan kwaikwayo na farko, waƙoƙin ban dariya Minti ɗaya Don Allah. A shekara ta 1918, ya shiga Jami'ar Columbia, inda ya sadu da Lawrence Hart, wanda ya yi nazarin wallafe-wallafe da harshe a can kuma a lokaci guda ya yi aiki a gidan wasan kwaikwayo a matsayin marubucin revue da fassarar Viennese operettas. Aikin haɗin gwiwa na Rogers da Hart ya ɗauki kusan kusan kwata na ƙarni kuma ya haifar da ƙirƙirar wasanni kusan talatin. Bayan nazarin ɗalibi a jami'a, waɗannan su ne wasan kwaikwayo na Budurwa (1926), Connecticut Yankee (1927) da sauransu don gidajen wasan kwaikwayo na Broadway. A lokaci guda kuma, Rogers, ba tare da la'akari da ilimin kiɗan da ya isa ba, ya yi karatu a Cibiyar Kiɗa ta New York na tsawon shekaru uku, inda ya karanta darussan ka'idojin kiɗa da gudanarwa.

Kidan Rodgers sannu a hankali yana samun karbuwa. A 1931, an gayyace shi da Hart zuwa Hollywood. Sakamakon zama na tsawon shekaru uku a babban birnin daular fim na daya daga cikin fitattun fina-finan kida na wancan lokacin, Love Me in the Night.

Marubutan sun dawo New York cike da sabbin tsare-tsare. A cikin shekaru masu zuwa, akwai On Pointe Shoes (1936), The Recruits (1937), I Married Angel (1938), The Syracuse Boys (1938), Buddy Joy (1940), I Swear by Jupiter (1942).

Bayan mutuwar Hart, Rogers ya haɗu tare da wani mai sassaucin ra'ayi. Wannan shine ɗayan shahararrun a Amurka, marubucin libretto na Rose Marie da Theater Floating, Oscar Hammerstein. Tare da shi, Rogers ya ƙirƙira operettas tara, gami da sanannen Oklahoma (1943).

Fayil ɗin ƙirƙira na marubucin ya haɗa da kiɗa don fina-finai, waƙoƙi, ayyukan kiɗa da wasan kwaikwayo fiye da arba'in. Baya ga waɗanda aka jera a sama, waɗannan su ne Carousel (1945), Allegro (1947), A cikin Kudancin Pacific (1949), The King and I (1951), Ni da Juliet (1953), Mafarki mai yuwuwa “(1955), "The Song of the Flower Drum" (1958), "Sautin Kiɗa" (1959), da dai sauransu.

L. Mikheva, A. Orelovich