Rodgers and hart bio

Lorenz Hart (later 'Larry' to everyone but his mother) was born in to an affluent German immigrant family in New York. He was unusually short in stature, which haunted his whole life, but by contrast super-energetic and intellectually dynamic. His talent for writing words to music was early evident and first put to serious use in teenage summer-camp shows.

These shows were also Richard Rodgers' (born to a New York doctor's family) start in the theatre, but he did not meet Larry Hart until early , when introduced by a mutual friend to collaborate on songs for an amateur club show. Rodgers, then only 16, was deeply impressed by Hart's seriousness and erudition in every aspect of lyric-writing: later he said "I was enchanted by this little man and his ideas. Neither of us mentioned it, but we evidently knew we would work together and I left Hart's house, having acquired in one afternoon a career, a partner, a best friend and a permanent source of irritation."

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