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Richard Adler Collection [collection]
- Title
- Richard Adler Collection [collection]
- Dates Created
- Span: 1950-1980
- Bulk: 1950-1970
- Language
- English
- Form
- collection
- Physical Description
- 12 ft.
- 3 boxes
- 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.
- 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
- Richard Adler Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.
- Access Permissions
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- Subjects
- 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
- Repository
- Music Division, Library of Congress
Last Updated: 08-24-2012