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Stephen Joshua Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist. Regarded as one of the most important figures in 20th-century musical theater, he is credited with reinventing the American musical. With his frequent collaborations with Harold Prince and James Lapine, Sondheim's Broadway musicals tackled unexpected themes that ranged beyond the genre's traditional subjects, while addressing.
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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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A Little Night Music is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. Inspired by the 1955 Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, it involves the romantic lives of several couples. Its title is a literal English translation of the German name for Mozart 's Serenade No. 13, K. 525, Eine kleine Nachtmusik.
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A "Sweeney Todd" collaboration: Stephen Sondheim, center, who wrote the 1979 musical's score and lyrics, with its stars, Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou.. Sondheim mostly just smiled and.
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Stephen Sondheim, (born March 22, 1930, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 26, 2021, Roxbury, Conn.), U.S. composer and lyricist. He studied piano and organ and at age 15 wrote his first musical, under the tutelage of the musical comedy author Oscar Hammerstein II, a family friend. After studies with composer Milton Babbitt, he made his first.
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Stephen Sondheim. Music Department: Dick Tracy. He did his pre college training at George School, Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, then was in a class of 50 at Williams College majoring in music as an undergraduate distinguishing himself by writing a book, lyrics and music for two college shows based on the adaption of 'Beggar on Horseback'.
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Stephen Sondheim — composer-lyricist for A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, and more than a dozen other musicals — is having "a moment" as one of his Into the Woods lyrics might have put it.. Or perhaps a better fit for the Broadway legend, who was widely regarded as brilliant but an acquired taste when he died in 2021, would be a tweak to a lyric from the song "Children and Art" in.
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Roughly a decade before Stephen Sondheim died in November 2021, he added a surprising new occupation to his multi-hyphenate career: autobiographer. His two memoirs-through-lyrics, "Finishing.
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Sondheim died on Friday at age 91. R. Jones/Getty Images. Stephen Sondheim, the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning Broadway songwriter has died at age 91. His death occurred early this morning.
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Stephen Joshua Sondheim ( / ˈsɒndhaɪm /; March 22, 1930 - November 26, 2021) was an American composer and lyricist. Regarded as one of the most important figures in 20th-century musical theater, he is credited with reinventing the American musical. [1]
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Stephen Sondheim See all media Category: Arts & Culture In full: Stephen Joshua Sondheim Born: March 22, 1930, New York, New York, U.S. Died: November 26, 2021, Roxbury, Connecticut (aged 91) Awards And Honors: Tony Awards Pulitzer Prize Presidential Medal of Freedom (2015) Praemium Imperiale (2000) Grammy Award (1994) Academy Award (1991)
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With his name appearing in three categories at the 2024 GRAMMYs, musical theater icon Stephen Sondheim's legacy continues to thrive. Take a deep dive into the masterful works of the late composer/lyricist, from "Company" to "Sweeney Todd." Jan 11, 2024 - 05:41 pm. had three rules when speaking about his own writing: Less is more, God is in the.
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Stephen Sondheim — composer-lyricist for A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, and more than a dozen other musicals — is having "a moment" as one of his Into the Woods lyrics might have put it.
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Stephen Sondheim was born in New York on 22 March 1930, and is widely acknowledged as the most innovative, most influential and most important composer and lyricist in modern Broadway history. For more than 50 years, Stephen Sondheim set an unsurpassed standard of brilliance and artistic integrity in the musical theatre.
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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.
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Steven Joshua Sondheim (March 22, 1930 - November 26, 2021) was an American composer and lyricist . Personal life Sondheim was born into a Jewish [1] family in New York City. He grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and later near Doylestown, Pennsylvania. He was openly gay. [2] In 2017, he married Jeffrey Romley.