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Author
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Stephen Sondheim has made it clear that he considers himself a "playwright in song." How he arrived at this unique appellation is the subject of How Sondheim Found His Sound - a study of the multitudinous influences on Sondheim's work." "Taking Sondheim's own comments and music as a starting point, author Steve Swayne offers a biography of the artist's style, pulling aside the curtain on Sondheim's creative universe to reveal the many influences...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
In the first full-scale life of the most important composer-lyricist at work in musical theatre today, the author draws on her extended conversations with Stephen Sondheim as well as on her interviews with his friends, family, collaborators, and lovers to bring us not only the artist--as a master of modernist compositional style--but also the private man. We see Sondheim at work with composers, producers, directors, co-writers, actors, the greats...
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Offers an inside look at the making of the film, including the casting, music, costumes, and sets, along with background information on the legend of Sweeney Todd, interviews with the cast and crew, and excerpts from the screenplay.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Conducted during the last years of the iconic composer's life, a deeply personal collection of interviews highlights the legend's work and his opinions and thoughts on music, movies, family, New York, aging, and the creative process."--
Author
Publisher
Bancroft Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A memoir chronicling the relationship between American musical composer Stephen Sondheim and journalist Paul Salsini during the latter's time as the founder and editor of The Sondheim Review, the only publication devoted solely to Sondheim's work during his lifetime"--
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An intimate and candid look at the life and art of legendary composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, as revealed through the creation and performance of six of his songs, and remembered by the man himself. The six songs featured in the film are: Something's coming, Opening doors, Send in the clowns, I'm still here, Being alive and Sunday. Art and life are intertwined for Sondheim, and it is a story of both.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"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
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An illustrated celebration of the work and impact of the legendary Stephen Sondheim. Organized by work, with sidebars throughout, this book is packed with interviews with collaborators, mentors, and fans, all illustrated with original transcripts, letters, photographs, and more"--
13) Into the woods
Language
English
Description
The fairy tale characters of Little Red Ridinghood, Cinderella, and Jack (and the Beanstalk) are linked together with the characters of a baker and his wife. Their stories intertwine as they all search for something different in the woods. After they have all found happiness, they must band together to fight a giant.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Stephen Sondheim has won seven Tonys, an Academy Award, seven Grammys, a Pulitzer Prize and the Kennedy Center Honors. His lyrics have become synonymous with musical theater and popular culture, and here Sondheim has not only collected his lyrics for the first time, he is giving readers a rare personal look into his life as well as his remarkable productions. Along with the lyrics for all of his musicals from 1954 to 1981--including West Side Story,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the iconic Broadway musical Sunday in the Park with George"--
In 1982 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....
Series
Criterion collection ; 1090
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Documents the eighteen-hour recording session for the album of Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical "Company," featuring members of the original 1970 cast."--
Author
Publisher
Moreclacke Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Paul Ford recalls his decades long professional relationship with Broadway's masterful songwriter Stephen Sondheim, who has publicly declared Ford the "indefatigable master of the musical theater" and "the world's most tireless rehearsal pianist and a walking memory bank of every song that has ever been written for any musical on any continent." Ford worked on the original productions of Sunday in the Park with George, Follies in Concert, Into the...