Oscar Hammerstein Award Oscar Hammerstein Award The Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre is named in honor of American lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein, who helped shape American theater music through his collaborations with a number of different composers and writers. The award was created in 1988 by Janet Hayes Walker, the Founding Artistic Director of The York Theatre Company, and is presented with the endorsement of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization and the Hammerstein family. The Oscar Hammerstein Award Gala is the major annual fundraising event of The York, a mainstay of the Off-Broadway scene for more than 45
Baumwollspinnerei Hammerstein changed in a 1930 referendum to Wuppertal (“Wupper Valley”). The Hammerstein manor house controlled much of the valley floor of the Wupper. In 1825 it gave its name to the in , that still stands on the "Hammersteiner Allee", and to a station of the suspension railway. Sonnborn itself gave its name to the on the autobahn 46 and autobahn 535. Downhill from the Villa Hammerstein, the businessman Johann Christian Jung built the weaving sheds and the cotton mill "Baumwollspinnerei Hammerstein" alongside the Wupper between 1835 and 1837. He included workers accommodation in the form of an apartment block. The