Sondheim On Music

Author : Mark Eden Horowitz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153812551X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sondheim on Music written by Mark Eden Horowitz and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of interviews conducted by Mark Horowitz of the Library of Congress, musical theatre legend Stephen Sondheim discusses the art of musical composition, lyric writing, the collaborative process of musical theater, and how he thinks about his own work. A postlude features a more recent conversation with Sondheim.

Author : Stephen Banfield
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472080830
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sondheim's Broadway Musicals written by Stephen Banfield and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth look at the work and career of one of the most important figures in the history of musical theater

Author : Stephen Sondheim
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9781854591074
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Little Night Music written by Stephen Sondheim and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam S. Shubert Theatre, New York Drama Critics' Circle Award-Best Musical 1973, Tony Award-Best Musical 1973, Harold Prince in association with Ruth Mitchell presents "A Little Night Music," a new musical starring Glynis Johns, Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold, with Victoria Mallory, Laurence Guittard, Patricia Elliott, Mark Lambert, Judy Kahan, D. Jamin-Bartlett, George Lee Andrews, Despo, Barbara Lang, Benjamin Rayson, Teri Ralson, Beth Fowler, Gene Varrone, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler, suggested by a film by Ingmar Bergman, choreography by Patricia Birch, scenic production designed by Boris Aronson, costumes designed by Florence Klotz, lighting designed by Tharon Musser, musical direction by Paul Gemignani, orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick, production directed by Harold Prince.

Author : Robert L. McLaughlin
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496808568
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical written by Robert L. McLaughlin and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From West Side Story in 1957 to Road Show in 2008, the musicals of Stephen Sondheim and his collaborators have challenged the conventions of American musical theater and expanded the possibilities of what musical plays can do, how they work, and what they mean. Sondheim's brilliant array of work, including such musicals as Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, and Into the Woods, has established him as the preeminent composer/lyricist of his, if not all, time. Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical places Sondheim's work in two contexts: the exhaustion of the musical play and the postmodernism that, by the 1960s, deeply influenced all the American arts. Sondheim's musicals are central to the transition from the Rodgers and Hammerstein-style musical that had dominated Broadway stages for twenty years to a new postmodern musical. This new style reclaimed many of the self-aware, performative techniques of the 1930s musical comedy to develop its themes of the breakdown of narrative knowledge and the fragmentation of identity. In his most recent work, Sondheim, who was famously mentored by Oscar Hammerstein II, stretches toward a twenty-first-century musical that seeks to break out of the self-referring web of language. Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical offers close readings of all of Sondheim's musicals and finds in them critiques of the operation of power, questioning of conventional systems of knowledge, and explorations of contemporary identity.

Author : James Lapine
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374720223
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Putting It Together written by James Lapine and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the iconic musical Sunday in the Park with George Putting It Together chronicles the two-year odyssey of creating the iconic Broadway musical Sunday in the Park with George. In 1982, James Lapine, at the beginning of his career as a playwright and director, met Stephen Sondheim, nineteen years his senior and already a legendary Broadway composer and lyricist. Shortly thereafter, the two decided to write a musical inspired by Georges Seurat’s nineteenth-century painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Through conversations between Lapine and Sondheim, as well as most of the production team, and with a treasure trove of personal photographs, sketches, script notes, and sheet music, the two Broadway icons lift the curtain on their beloved musical. Putting It Together is a deeply personal remembrance of their collaboration and friend - ship and the highs and lows of that journey, one that resulted in the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning classic.

Author : Stephen Sondheim
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781423472735
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sondheim Songs, Easy Piano written by Stephen Sondheim and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Easy Piano Composer Collection). 15 Sondheim standouts simplified for beginning players: Anyone Can Whistle * Broadway Baby * Children Will Listen * Comedy Tonight * Good Thing Going * Johanna * Losing My Mind * Loving You * Not a Day Goes By * Not While I'm Around * Old Friends * Pretty Women * Send in the Clowns * Side by Side by Side * Sunday. Includes lyrics and a composer bio.

Author : Stephen Sondheim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Company written by Stephen Sondheim and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This performance, directed by Lonny Price, is a 2011 staged concert performance of the 1971 musical 'Company.'

Author : Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813944326
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorians on Broadway written by Sharon Aronofsky Weltman and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadway productions of musicals such as The King and I, Oliver!, Sweeney Todd, and Jekyll and Hyde became huge theatrical hits. Remarkably, all were based on one-hundred-year-old British novels or memoirs. What could possibly explain their enormous success? Victorians on Broadway is a wide-ranging interdisciplinary study of live stage musicals from the mid- to late twentieth century adapted from British literature written between 1837 and 1886. Investigating musical dramatizations of works by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others, Sharon Aronofsky Weltman reveals what these musicals teach us about the Victorian books from which they derive and considers their enduring popularity and impact on our modern culture. Providing a front row seat to the hits (as well as the flops), Weltman situates these adaptations within the history of musical theater: the Golden Age of Broadway, the concept musicals of the 1970s and 1980s, and the era of pop mega-musicals, revealing Broadway's debt to melodrama. With an expertise in Victorian literature, Weltman draws on reviews, critical analyses, and interviews with such luminaries as Stephen Sondheim, Polly Pen, Frank Wildhorn, and Rowan Atkinson to understand this popular trend in American theater. Exploring themes of race, religion, gender, and class, Weltman focuses attention on how these theatrical adaptations fit into aesthetic and intellectual movements while demonstrating the complexity of their enduring legacy.

Author : Stephen Sondheim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781559360395
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assassins written by Stephen Sondheim and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evokes a fraternity of Presidential assassins across a hundred years of history. Examines success, failure, and the questionable drive for power and celebrity in American society. | Original cast recording; booklet includes lyrics.

Author : Rick Pender
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781538184189
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia written by Rick Pender and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia is the first reference volume devoted to the works of this prolific composer and lyricist. The encyclopedia's entries provide readers with detailed information about Sondheim's work and key figures in his career, including his apprenticeship, his early work with Leonard Bernstein, and his work on television.