Rodgers and Hammerstein [Interview] (1960)

About this title: In early 1960, only a couple of months after the successful Broadway opening of what would turn out to be the final musical with songs by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, The Sound of Music, the radio network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) planned a documentary on Rodgers & Hammerstein and sent Tony Thomas to New York to interview them. He spoke to each separately on the same day, and those two conversations, each running roughly half an hour, are presented on this album. (The annotations state that the interviews took place in February 1960. In the interview with ... read more

Tracks:

1. Interview With Richard Rodgers
2. Interview With Oscar Hammerstein II

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.