May 19, 2022

The Letters Of Oscar Hammerstein II

The Letters Of Oscar Hammerstein II
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My guest is Mark Eden Horowitz who joins me to discuss his fascinating new book: The Letters of Oscar Hammerstein II.
 
Mark is Senior Music Specialist in the music division of the Library of Congress where he has been an archivist or co-archivist for the papers of Jerome Kern, Vernon Duke, Cole Porter, Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner, Leonard Bernstein, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, of course.
 
He is the author of the award-winning book Sondheim on Music, and for ten years he served as the contributing editor for The Sondheim Review.
 
The Letters of Oscar Hammerstein II contains hundreds of previously unpublished letters to and from Hammerstein that Mark compiled and edited out of thousands.
I found that reading these letters allowed me to go inside the mind of Oscar Hammerstein and experience an extraordinary view of both his professional and personal life that I have never seen before.
It's one of those books where you can turn to any page and find a fascinating new fact or insight.
 
If you would like to win a FREE copy of the book, Mark will also be joining me for a special Broadway Nation/Broadway Podcast Network LIVESTREAM event tomorrow, Friday, May 20 at 7pm EDT – 4pm PDT, with co-host Alan Seales.
The event will include trivia contests, book giveaways, and the chance to ask Mark any questions you may have about his new book, Hammerstein, or his work at the Library of Congress.
 
You can join Mark Eden Horowitz, Gail Leondar-Wright and me live here on FaceBook as well as on Broadway Nation's and Broadway Podcast Network’s YouTube channels.
 
It's all Hammerstein all the time this weekend on Broadway Nation!
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David Armstrong is the producer writer and host of the popular podcast BROADWAY NATION, which was inspired by a course he teaches at the University of Washington School of Drama on the history of the Broadway Musical. During his 40 years career in the professional theater he has worked as a director, writer, producer, and choreographer on Broadway and at many leading theater companies across America. He is best known for his work at The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle where from 2000 to 2018 he served as the Producing Artistic Director and Executive Producer. During his tenure The 5th produced 19 new musicals, including nine that subsequently moved on to Broadway including the Tony Award winning “Best Musicals” HAIRSPRAY and MEMPHIS.

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