"A Ship without a Sail"

Rodgers and Hart

Much as I love the great musicals of Rodgers and Hammerstein, who genuinely elevated American musical theater of the 1920’s and 1930’s to the level of high art in the 1940’s, I must admit to being extremely fond of the works of Richard Rodgers and his first longtime composing partner, Lorenz Hart. Larry Hart was in many ways a very sad and lonely soul,…