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Arnold Olaf Sundgaard (October 31, 1909 – October 22, 2006) was an American playwright, librettist, and lyricist. Sundgard was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and was of Norwegian descent.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Arnold Sundgaard, Playwright and Librettist, Is Dead at 96 )〕 He attended Johnson Senior High School in Saint Paul, where he played football with Warren E. Burger.〔 He then attended the University of Wisconsin, graduating with a bachelor's degree in English in 1935; he also studied at the Yale Drama School. He taught drama at a number of schools, including Columbia University, Bennington College, and the University of Texas.〔 Sundgaard worked with the Federal Theatre Project early in his career; in 1938 the Project produced, as part of the Living Newspaper series, his play ''Spirochete: A History'', about the spread of syphilis.〔 The play, the writing of which had been encouraged by Susan Glaspell, was a hit in Chicago at its premiere, but met with tremendous protest upon its transfer to Philadelphia.〔 His first play for Broadway was a collaboration with Marc Connelly; titled ''Everywhere I Roam'', it lasted 13 performances in 1938 and 1939. T. Edward Hambleton produced his plays ''The First Crocus'' in 1942 and ''The Great Campaign'' in 1947; each lasted five performances only.〔 ''Of Love Remembered'' appeared in 1967, directed by Burgess Meredith and starring Ingrid Thulin.〔 Sundgaard wrote the libretti for close to a dozen operas and musicals by composers such as Alec Wilder, Douglas Moore, and Kurt Weill. With Moore he wrote ''Giants in the Earth'', after the novel by Ole Edvart Rølvaag; it won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1951. In 1952 he wrote ''The Lowland Sea'' with Wilder.〔 In 1948 he and Weill collaborated on the folk opera ''Down in the Valley'', and in 1944 he and Leonard Louis Levinson wrote the book for ''Rhapsody'', a collaboration with Fritz Kreisler and John Latouche. Another opera with Moore, ''Gallantry'', a parody of television soap operas, was premiered by the Columbia University School of Music in 1958. With Victor Ziskin he wrote the short-lived ''The Young Abe Lincoln'', which played briefly on Broadway in 1961.〔 Sundgaard was also a lyricist, writing the lyrics to several songs by Wilder. "How Lovely is Christmas" was recorded by Bing Crosby;〔 "Where Do You Go?" was recorded by Frank Sinatra and released on his 1959 album ''No One Cares''. Besides theatrical work, Sundgaard wrote nonfiction for ''The New Yorker'' and ''Atlantic Monthly'', among other publications.〔 With Eric Carle, he also wrote children's books, such as ''The Lamb and the Butterfly'' of 1988; his ''The Bear who Loved Puccini'', published in 1992, was illustrated by Dominic Catalano.〔 Sundgaard counted among his friends Studs Terkel and Gregory Peck. His first marriage, to Margaret Christiansen, ended in divorce; his second marriage, to Marge Kane, ended at her death in 1998.〔 He died at his home in Dallas, Texas, and was survived by a son and two daughters; another son predeceased him, in 1985.〔 Sundgaaard was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of music research in 1951.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation – Arnold Sundgaard )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arnold Sundgaard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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