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Lorenz Milton Hart (May 2, 1895 – November 22, 1943) was an American lyricist and half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include "Blue Moon"; "The Lady Is a Tramp"; "Manhattan"; "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"; and "My Funny Valentine".
Nov 30, 2012 · A biography of Lorenz Hart, the lyric-writing partner to the composer Richard Rodgers and perhaps the most popular songsmith-poet in America.
- Brad Leithauser
Jun 11, 2013 · But less is known about Hart the man. The basic outline is that he was a short, hard-drinking, irresponsible charmer who died young, at age 48, in 1943. No one disputes that he was gay, but ...
Lorenz Hart (born May 2, 1895, New York City—died Nov. 22, 1943, New York City) was a U.S. song lyricist whose commercial popular songs incorporated the careful techniques and verbal refinements of serious poetry.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mar 21, 2013 · The story of the irresistible and tragic Lorenz Hart, of his collaboration with the more grounded and less exuberant Richard Rodgers, and of the Broadway musical comedy from the twenties to the...
A Connecticut Yankee opened on Broadway November 17, 1943. Already ill at the time, Hart developed pneumonia soon thereafter, and died on November 22, 1943. His songs, however, have lived on.
Nov 26, 2012 · Blue Rooms: The Sad, Slicing Lyrics of Lorenz Hart. IN 1962, ALMOST TWENTY years after the lyricist Lorenz Hart’s death, his melodist partner Richard Rodgers told Diahann Carroll that “you can...
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