When the Dog Bites
Richard Rodgers knew well the dog's bite, the bee's sting, plagued as he was by inner demons, personal trials, and psychic pain. Yet he was able somehow to produce from this dark world music of sweetness and light.
"...like a ballerina doing leaps, bouncing through all those Hallmark-card images by lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II: "Raindrops on roses..."