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Richard Adler Collection [collection]
- Title
- Richard Adler Collection [collection]
- Date Created
- Span: 1950-1980
- Date Created
- Bulk: 1950-1970
- Form
- collection
- Physical Description
- 12 ft.
- Physical Description
- 3 boxes
- Language
- English
- Abstract
- Richard Adler (b. 1921 ) is an American composer and lyricist, the son of the distinguished pianist and pedagogue Charles Adler. With the composer and lyricist Jerry Ross he wrote the song Rags to Riches, and produced two critically-acclaimed and long-running musicals for Broadway, the Pajama Game and Damn Yankees. Richard Adler was the producer and director for various celebrity productions during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, including the celebrated appearance of Marilyn Monroe singing Happy Birthday to John F. Kennedy.
- Subjects
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American Musical Theater
Popular Music
Radio/Television
Adler, Richard
Bloch, Ernest
Copland, Aaron
Damrosch, Walter
Hurst, Fannie
Einstein, Albert
Rachmaninoff, Sergei
Stevenson, Adlai
Humphrey, Hubert H.
Johnson, Claudia Alta Taylor (Lady Bird)
Kennedy, Jacqueline
Harris, Julie
Porter, Cole
Hammerstein, Oscar
Adler, Clarence
Green, Paul
Ross, Jerry
Abbott, George
Fosse, Bob
Prince, Harold
First families
- Contents note
- Collection of the papers of the noted Jewish-American lyricist, composer and producer is rich in correspondence with notable figures of the 20th century. Also included: 23 scrapbooks, nearly 200 sound recordings, tapes and discs, photographs, theatrical ephemera, production and publicity materials, personal memorabilia.
- Preferred citation note
- Richard Adler Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.
- Access permissions note
- Permitted, subject to PARR policies and procedures
- Copyright link note
- http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html
- Repository
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Music Division, Library of Congress