Sondheim on Music (eBook)

Minor Details and Major Decisions

Mark Eden Horowitz (Autor)

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2010 | 2., Second Edition
584 Seiten
Scarecrow Press (Verlag)
978-0-8108-7437-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Sondheim on Music presents transcripts of interviews with the most important Broadway composer and lyricist of our time, focusing on his compositional processes. This new edition features an additional chapter on his show Bounce, and a chapter that covers his entire career, including several shows that were not discussed in the first edition. In addition to Sondheim's list of "Songs I Wish I'd Written," there is also a greatly expanded Songlisting and Discography.

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Stephen Sondheim is widely regarded as the most important composer and lyricist of musical theater in the second half of the 20th century. Celebrating his 80th birthday, this new edition of Sondheim on Music finds him in these guided interviews expounding in great depth and detail on his craft. As a natural teacher, thoughtful and opinionated, Sondheim discusses the art of musical composition, lyric writing, the collaborative process of musical theater, and how he thinks about his own work. Where the first edition focused particularly on six showsPassion, Assassins, Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, and Pacific Overturesthis second edition presents a new chapter that discusses Sondheims entire career. Several shows that were not discussed previously are explored here, including A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Merrily We Roll Along, Company, Follies, Anyone Can Whistle, and A Little Night Music, as well as thoughts about the recent film adaptation of Sweeney Todd. The book also features an entire chapter on Bounce: the previous incarnation of his latest musical, Road Show. In addition to Sondheims list of "e;Songs I Wish Id Written,"e; the songlisting and discography has been greatly expanded and updated to include all works composed and recorded over the last six years.

Autor

Mark Eden Horowitz is Senior Music Specialist at the Library of Congress where he has worked as archivist for the collections of manuscripts and papers of Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Vernon Duke, Oscar Hammerstein II, Jonathan Larson, Jascha Heifetz, Jerome Kern, Frederick Loewe, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and Vincent Youmans, among others. He has taught courses in musical theater and Sondheim at Georgetown University and is Contributing Editor to The Sondheim Review.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.9.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Singen / Musizieren
• ISBN-10: 0-8108-7437-7 / 0810874377
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8108-7437-4 / 9780810874374