Richard Rodgers was an American composer, pianist and conductor, one of the central figures in twentieth-century musical theatre.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears as an artist in The Symphonic Richard Rodgers, a programme of orchestral recordings from 1946 to 1954.

Rodgers’s presence as artist sits beside his composer identity, reflecting the musical-theatre world in which song, theatre craft and orchestral arrangement constantly overlapped.

His page is justified by catalogue context. Rodgers gives the American shelf Broadway melody in concert dress.