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THURSDAY 26 DECEMBER
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Presented by Francine Stock
RICHARD RODGERS
A century after Richard Rodgers was born, his music still surrounds us. In theatres and local halls, jazz clubs and shopping malls, on football terraces and concert platforms, the melodies persist. If you had to, you might name him as the composer of musicals such as Oklahoma and The Sound of Music each stockpiled with popular anthems.
The shows, which first ran on Broadway and in the West End now receive lavish revivals in subsidised theatres, those national temples of art. And through cinema his music has reached out to an audience other composers left unmoved. You'll Never Walk Alone from Carousel became a football anthem, as did Blue Moon, a sometime chart-topper, just one of the many winners in Rodger's marathon output.
Francine Stock marks the centenary of the composer Richard Rodgers whose tunes continue to turn up in unexpected places.
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