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	Great Performances . Artists . Stephen Sondheim \| PBS
		Sondheim's partnership with the director/producer Hal Prince resulted in Tony Awards for Best Musical Scores for three consecutive years (1971-1973), and "Pacific Overtures" (1976) was hailed as a landmark in American musical theater because of its masterful use of traditional Japanese theater elements.
		Sondheim was born into a prosperous business family on March 22, 1930.
		Sondheim's parents divorced in 1942 and his mother took up residence in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, close to the summertime residence of Oscar Hammerstein II.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/shows/songbook/multimedia/bio_sondheim.html (394 words)

	Stephen Sondheim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stephen Sondheim was born to a Jewish family in New York City and grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and later on a farm in Pennsylvania.
		Sondheim's work is most notable for his use of complex polyphony in the vocal parts, such as the chorus of five minor characters who function as a sort of "Greek Chorus" in A Little Night Music.
		Sondheim yearned to be popular and the next and last collaboration with Harold Prince, until many years later, was a stab to try and reach that success.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephen_Sondheim (2056 words)

	Stephen Sondheim Interview -- Academy of Achievement
		He loved Broadway shows and he would come home and approximate the songs on the piano, and he'd put his hands on the keys, and he'd put my hand, when I was tiny, on the melody, because he always played the melody with his little finger on the top.
		Stephen Sondheim: Oh, no. He played by ear.
		Stephen Sondheim: Math was my big interest when I was in prep school.
	www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/son0int-1 (857 words)

	The My Hero Project - Stephen Sondheim
		Stephen Sondheim is known as one of the most innovative composers and lyricists of our time.
		Sondheim was profoundly influenced by Oscar Hammerstein II (of Rodgers and Hammerstein) who was not only a musical mentor, but a father figure for the young Sondheim.
		Stephen Sondheim was born on March 22, 1930.
	www.myhero.com /hero.asp?hero=sondheim (594 words)

	Stephen Sondheim - The Guide to Musical Theatre
		Stephen Sondheim was born on 22 March 1930, the son of a wealthy New York dress manufacturer.
		Sondheim hit his stride in the Seventies, forming a unique partnership of hyphenates with Hal Prince: a composer-lyricist and a producer-director working together to re-invent the musical.
		Sondheim turned to the author and director James Lapine for Sunday In The Park With George (1984), a work that seemed at times an autobiographical reflection on the problems of making art in a commercial environment.
	www.nodanw.com /biographies/sondheim.htm (517 words)

	Songwriters Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sondheim has written prolifically and profusely for motion pictures, television dramas, and background songs and scores for legitimate theater, in addition to his extensive catalog of Broadway scores.
		Stephen Sondheim was born in 1930 and raised in New York City.
		Stephen Sondheim has served on the CounciI of the Dramatists Guild, the National Association of Playwrights, Composers and Lyricists, and served as its president from 1973 to 1981.
	www.songwritershalloffame.org /exhibit_bio.asp?exhibitId=75 (479 words)

	Stephen Sondheim
		That the parents of Stephen Sondheim, Herbert and Janet Sondheim, should have chosen such a background was perhaps no accident, since, like their architect, the Sondheims had dedicated themselves to "les arts de vivre" and were newly rich.
		Sondheim had begun at the very bottom of the ladder, but that he was destined to prosper seems unsurprising, given his paternal ancestors.
		Sondheim had a group of cronies who saw each other on Thursday nights and went to sports events on weekends, but one of his closest friends was Lloyd Weill, also in the dress business and living in the San Remo.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/s/secrest-sondheim.html (6327 words)

	Stephen Sondheim
		Sondheim's mind and his training were more sophisticated than those of many of his musical comedy mentors, but he moved in their swank milieu.
		Sondheim had come of age: his own diminished sense of life and guarded emotions were now shared by a nation obsessed with its despair.
		Sondheim can be briIliant in his diagnosis of the failure of relationships, but never quite believable about their success.
	www.sunday-in-the-park.com /sondheim/articles/sondheim-johnlahr.html (4405 words)

	Stephen Sondheim Tribute
		Original and fresh, Stephen Sondheim remains one of the most fascinating of Broadway composers.
		Sondheim began his learning of his craft from a family friend, Oscar Hammerstein, with the great man's first critique of his writing.
		The Kennedy Center is featuring a Tribute to Stephen Sondheim the summer of 2002 with performances of six of his shows, please special performances by Mandy Patinkin and Barbara Cook.
	www.janeek.com /stephen.htm (715 words)

	Stephen Sondheim Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Stephen Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American musical theater lyricist and composer.
		Sondheim was born in New York City and grew up in Pennsylvania.
		Jimmy's father (lyricist/playwright Oscar Hammerstein II) taught Sondheim the basics of the musical after Sondheim came to him with a show he had written for a school performance.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/s/st/stephen_sondheim.html (914 words)

	Stephen Sondheim
		Sondheim, she notes, portrays the pain of love and shows us women "more confused than ever about life and love." He explores dark and complex textures, she says, and often provides a less-than-perfect ending.
		Leonard Fleischer suggests that all Sondheim shows are a journey from the false comfort of illusions to the destruction of those illusions in the face of painful reality.
		Finally, Barbara Means Fraser examines Sondheim's use of the chorus, defining its individualistic characterized role in his shows (as opposed to the more supportive and faceless role of the chorus in most Broadway musicals) and finding other similarities to the dramatic use of the chorus in the classic Greek drama.
	persweb.wabash.edu /facstaff/FISHERJ/new/Sondheim.html (861 words)

	Knitting Circle Stephen Sondheim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Jimmy's father was Oscar Hammerstein II who took Stephen Sondheim under his wing and taught him to write lyrics.
		Stephen Sondheim graduated from Williams College in 1950, and he received a fellowship which gave him the opportunity to study music.
		It was unusual for Stephen Sondheim to write both the music and the lyrics but he did so for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, (1962), and Anyone Can Whistle, (1964).
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/stephensondheim.html (416 words)

	Conversations With Sondheim
		Stephen Sondheim is in a tie and a loud, boxy sports jacket, his hair slicked back, his grin forced -- a geek trying to cut it with the popular crowd.
		Sondheim is too young to have met Gershwin, but vividly remembers meeting Cole Porter in the late 50's, near the bitter end for Porter, whose leg had recently been amputated.
		Sondheim is now living alone again, though he and Jones are "still close and seeing each other." His daily routine is fairly regimented: work into the evening, exercise and a late dinner.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/magazine/home/20000312mag-sondheim.html (7196 words)

	Sondheim vs. Sondheim by Stefan Kanfer, City Journal Autumn 2004
		Sondheim intended to make his next Broadway work a solo job, but it wasn't to be.
		Sondheim, then in the middle of intensive psychoanalysis, was coming to grips not only with his long-suppressed homosexuality but also with his hatred of emotional intimacy.
		Sondheim had now achieved the status of cult figure, and from here on, whatever he wrote enjoyed a respectful, if not down-right awed, reception from a growing group of enthusiasts that included reviewers, cabaret singers, and non-showbiz "civilians" who made bestsellers of the original-cast recordings of his productions.
	www.city-journal.org /html/14_4_urbanities-sondheim.html (5902 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Stephen Sondheim: A Life: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Secrest reveals how Sondheim learnt to play the piano at an early age and writes about the effect his parent's divorce had on him when he was 10.
		"Stephen Sondheim: a life" is a very engaging biography of, arguably, one of the most talented men in the world of musical theatre.
		It is clear, from the biography, that Sondheim is a very clever man: in his lyrics, each word is critical to the song, to the character, to the progression of the show; in his music, not a note is wasted.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0747544166 (706 words)

	Amazon.com Music: ( S ) / Sondheim, Stephen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Stephen Sondheim's career got off to a spectacular start when, as a twentysomething wunderkind, he wrote the lyrics to West Side Story and Gypsy.
		Stephen Sondheim graduated from writing lyrics for two smash Broadway-turned-Hollywood hits, West Side Story and Gypsy, to forging his own style as composer and lyricist with the most acclaimed, daring body of musical theater work of the past quarter century.
		Stephen Sondheim gives Amazon.com contributor Piers Ford the scoop in our exclusive interview.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/32680 (324 words)

	Hollywood Bowl - Performance Details
		Depending on what is called for in the particular show and the particular dramatic situation, they are by turns tuneful, harmonically complex, Japanese in feeling, Viennese in style, heavily rhymed, simply structured, emotional, ambivalent, whimsical, painful, bawdy, sophisticated, sardonic, upbeat and much more.
		Sondheim's songs are the most varied, consistently challenging body of work ever written for the American musical stage.
		Sondheim had asked me to put together an evening of his songs for Composers' Showcase in New York.
	www.hollywoodbowl.org /tix/performance_detail.cfm?id=2252 (295 words)

	Stephen Sondheim: A Life, a CurtainUp Theater Book Review review
		In spite of this, Stephen Sondheim: A Life succeeds admirably in drawing a well-rounded and richly embroidered psychological and professional portrait.
		Sondheim was lucky in many of his friendships and family connections -- knight in shining armor in the latter department being Oscar Hammerstein 2nd whose Bucks County retreat provided the young Sondheim with a nurturing home away from his mother's unnourishing nest nearby.
		If you enjoy the Sondheim biography and since Bernstein is also a man of the musical theater, you may want to read that biography as well.
	www.curtainup.com /sondheim.html (991 words)

	The Sondheim Review - Selected Links
		Stephen Sondheim's newest musical (with changes) ran at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. October 21 through November 16, 2003, and will not be moving to Broadway.
		You may subscribe to the Sondheim listserv by clicking on the link above and entering "Subscribe Sondheim" (no quotes) in the body of your e-mail message.
		The principal aim of the Society, based in Britain, is to promote Sondheim's works in the UK and elsewhere by circulating information and providing a focal point for those interested.
	www.sondheimreview.com /links.htm (457 words)

	Greece.com Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		IMDb: Stephen Sondheim - Filmography and television shows based on his compositions or using his music, plus acting and miscellaneous credits.
		Stephen Sondheim News: Topix.net - News about Stephen Sondheim continually updated from around the net.
		The Stephen Sondheim Society - News, articles, information on UK amateur and professional productions, events, discussion boards, and membership.
	www.greece.com /directory/apexec.pl?etype=odp&passurl=/Arts/People/S/Sondheim,_Stephen (314 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays (Casebooks on Modern Dramatists): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Stephen Sondheim is arguably the most important writer for the American musical stage today, the equivalent in his field of Miller, Albee, O'Neill, and Williams.
		With this respect for Sondheim's works Goodhart and his collaborators explore the often disregarded structuring of musicals such as Passion and Merrily We Roll Along - in which we are treated to a fascinating explanation of the development of the latter piece from flop to classic.
		Perhaps the collections greatest achievment is to recognise that Sondheim does not work alone and his collaborators are often shown to have at least some of his genius.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/081532832X (670 words)

	Stephen Sondheim News
		Record producer Tommy Krasker, of PS Classics, is in a London recording studio March 6-7 with the new London cast of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park With George.
		Not only is Stephen Sondheim the toast of Ravinia every summer, now he's also going to be feted in Chicago's Millennium Park.
		The new Nonesuch recording of Sweeney Todd is the third double-disc New York cast album of the Stephen Sondheim masterwork.
	www.topix.net /who/stephen-sondheim (609 words)

	Amazon.com: Sondheim on Music: Minor Details and Major Decisions : Minor Details and Major Decisions: Books: Mark Eden ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Sondheim on Music is primarily a transcript of a series of interviews with Stephen Sondheim, focusing on his work as a composer.
		Among the topics discussed, are how Sondheim approaches musicalizing characters and dramatic moments, how motifs and thematic material are created and used, how harmony, melody, and rhythm reflect character, the structuring of a score, the use of pastiche, and the practical aspects of collaboration.
		Though it concentrates heavily on musical theory and sondheim's pieces from a composer's point of view, you do not need to be an expert in music theory to appreciate this book, because it is filled with exciting tidbits of everything you would ever want to know about his pieces.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0810844370?v=glance (1065 words)

	Stephen Sondheim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Stephen Sondheim, acknowledged master of his field for decades, is uncomfortable with tributes to him or his work.
		As Sondheim said at the gala, the hall is “a cathedral to arts and to artists.” So it is entirely appropriate that Opening Doors is in Zankel Hall, which was built to house diverse and adventurous programming.
		Opening Doors was created for Sondheim’s 70th birthday and premiered under the title Moving On at London’s tiny but important Bridewell Theatre in the summer of 2000 and was subsequently seen at the Laguna Playhouse in California in the winter of 2001.
	www.carnegiehall.org /textSite/box_office/events/evt_5316.html?selecteddate=10072004 (3922 words)

	Sondheim Guide / Chronology
		Stephen Sondheim: A Life, a major biography by Meryle Secrest, is published
		Several tribute concerts are performed to celebrate the 75th birthday of SS, including Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim on March 19, Children and Art on March 21, and later in the year, Stephen Sondheim's 75th: The Concert on July 8
		Stephen Sondheim Sings, the first volume of SS demos performed by the composer is released on PS Classics.
	www.sondheimguide.com /chronology.html (1279 words)

	Sheet Music Plus - Stephen Sondheim: Follies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Stephen Schwartz: Wicked (Vocal Selections) For voice solo and piano accompaniment...
		Stephen Sondheim: Film And Televison Songs For voice and piano...
		Sunday In The Park Vocal Score By Stephen Sondheim...
	www.sheetmusicplus.com /a/item.html?id=58520&item=2932543 (103 words)

	Author Biography: Music Theatre International - MTI - Musical Theatre Broadway Shows Available for Licensing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Stephen Sondheim, one of the most influential and accomplished composer/lyricists in Broadway history, was born in New York City and raised in New York and Pennsylvania.
		Sondheim graduated from Williams College, where he received the Hutchinson Prize for Music Composition.
		Side By Side By Sondheim (1976), Marry Me A Little (1981), You're Gonna Love Tomorrow (1983; originally presented as A Stephen Sondheim Evening) and Putting It Together (1993) are anthologies of his work.
	www.mtishows.com /bio.asp?bID=3481 (487 words)

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