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26. Nov. 2021 · Stephen Sondheim, one of Broadway history’s songwriting titans, whose music and lyrics raised and reset the artistic standard for the American stage musical, died early Friday at his home in...
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26. Nov. 2021 · The American composer and songwriter Stephen Sondheim has died at his home in Connecticut aged 91, according to the New York Times. He was a titan of musical theatre who turned the unlikeliest...
26. Nov. 2021 · The American composer and songwriter Stephen Sondheim has died at his home in Connecticut aged 91, according to the New York Times. He was a titan of musical theatre who turned the unlikeliest...
27. Nov. 2021 · Stephen Sondheim, the award-winning composer-lyricist who took the Broadway musical to a higher level of emotional complexity than his predecessors in shows such as “Company,” “Follies” and...
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Sondheim was one of the first people to whom Lin-Manuel Miranda reached out in 2008 for feedback on his early drafts of “Hamilton.” More than half a century earlier, Sondheim had learned to compose music and lyrics at the knee of his mentor, Broadway great Oscar Hammerstein II. In between learning from one generation’s preeminent Broadway influence...
During an abusive childhood with little love from his parents, Sondheim found love and guidance in another home. It was Hammerstein who gave Sondheim the foundation of his theatrical education over a period of several years after Sondheim’s parents divorced. Left with a distant mother – who in later years told Sondheim, “The only regret I have in l...
When Sondheim began his professional career, it was with Hammerstein’s invaluable lessons under his belt and a young man’s determination to do things better than his predecessors. A chance meeting with Laurents, who had seen an audition for “Saturday Night,” led to Bernstein hiring Sondheim to write the lyrics for “West Side Story” alongside Arthur...
When Sondheim debuted as composer and lyricist with 1962’s “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” it was a rousing success. The show ran for 964 performances and won a number of Tony Awards, including Best Musical. But Sondheim’s score was not recognized by the Tonys, and it wasn’t seen as among the show’s great selling points. Sondheim ...
Sondheim began a lasting partnership with director-producer Hal Price with his next show, “Company,” an innovatively plotless musical that follows a group of friends through a series of vignettes. It was the first Broadway musical of its kind, a “concept musical,” and its unusual nature earned it mixed reviews, though Sondheim won Tony Awards for b...
Despite the mixed reactions to his music, Sondheim’s star continued to rise as he wrote 1973’s “A Little Night Music,” which included one of Sondheim’s most enduring songs, “Send in the Clowns.” The show was a major success that earned Sondheim another Tony for Best Original Score as well as nabbing “Best Musical” and four other Tonys. “The Frogs” ...
Success followed as Sondheim stretched his wings to create a “pointillist musical” inspired by the pointillist painting style of Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.” “Sunday in the Park with George” verged on the avant-garde as it meditated on the act of creating, its two acts separated by a century’s time and onl...
Sondheim followed “Into the Woods” with “Assassins” (1990), a revue-style show that focuses on the men and women who, over the course of U.S. history, have attempted – and occasionally succeeded – to assassinate presidents. The concept was odd and the timing rough – after opening off-Broadway and running in smaller regional productions, it was sche...
“Everything is hummable. When they say my music is not, they’re really saying it is not reminiscent of something else. Hummable is a meaningless word, and so is melodic. If a tune is heard often enough, it becomes hummable. The hits from shows are the tunes that are played four or five times during the course of the evening. The reprises. Well, I d...
Read the life and career of Stephen Sondheim, one of the most renowned lyricists and composers of the Broadway stage. Learn about his mentorship by Oscar Hammerstein, his innovative musicals, his awards and his legacy.
26. Nov. 2021 · Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, one of the most influential figures in the American musical theater, has died. He was 91.
26. Nov. 2021 · Stephen Sondheim has died, according to his friend and lawyer F. Richard Pappas. The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and lyricist, known for Broadway shows including Company, Sunday in the Park...
