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Chapters: West Side Story, Gypsy: a Musical Fable, a Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, a Little Night Music, Assassins, Into the Woods, Anyone Can Whistle, Pacific Overtures, Follies, Company, Saturday Night, Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Sunday in the Park With George, Passion, Merrily We Roll Along, Road Show, Do I Hear a Waltz?, the Frogs. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 205. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:West Side Story is an American musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The musical's plot and story is based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Set in New York City in the mid-1950s, the musical explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. The members of the Sharks are first-generation Americans from Puerto Rico taunted by the Jets, a working-class white group who consider themselves the true Americans. The young protagonist, Tony, one of the Jets, falls in love with Maria, the sister of Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks. The dark theme, sophisticated music, extended dance scenes, and focus on social problems marked a turning point in American musical theatre. Bernstein's score for the musical has become extremely popular; it includes "Something's Coming", "Maria", "America", "Somewhere", "Tonight", "Jet Song", "I Feel Pretty", "One Hand, One Heart", "Gee, Officer Krupke" and "Cool". The original 1957 Broadway production, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins and produced by Robert E. Griffith and Harold Prince, marked Stephen Sondheim's Broadway debut. It ran for 732 performances (a successful run for the time), before going on tour. The production garnered a Tony Award nomination for Best ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=33928 ... Read more

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Commentary (music and lyrics not included).Chapters: Send in the Clowns, Somewhere, America, Sooner or Later, Company, Losing My Mind, Tonight Quintet, Maria, Cool, Together, Being Alive. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 48. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "Send in the Clowns" is a song by Stephen Sondheim from the 1973 musical A Little Night Music, an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's film Smiles of a Summer Night. It is a ballad from Act II in which the character Desirée reflects on the ironies and disappointments of her life. Among other things, she looks back on an affair years earlier with the lawyer Fredrik. Meeting him after so long, she finds that he is now in an unconsummated marriage with a much younger woman. Desirée proposes marriage to rescue him from this situation, but he declines, citing his dedication to his bride. Reacting to his rejection, Desirée sings this song. The song is later reprised as a coda after Fredrik's young wife runs away with his son, and Fredrik is finally free to accept Desirée's offer. Sondheim wrote the song specifically for the actress Glynis Johns, who created the role of Desirée on Broadway. The song is structured with four verses and a bridge, and uses a complex triple meter. It became Sondheim's most popular song after Judy Collins and Frank Sinatra recorded it in 1975. Subsequently, Grace Jones, Barbra Streisand, Shirley Bassey, Zarah Leander, Tiger Lillies and many other famous artists have recorded the song, and it became a jazz standard. The "clowns" in the title do not refer to circus clowns. Instead, they symbolize fools, as Sondheim explained in a 1990 interview: I get a lot of letters over the years asking what the title means and what the song's about; I never thought it would be in any way esoteric. I wanted to use theatrical imagery in...http://booksllc.net/?id=29357 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Francis Ford Coppola, Stephen Sondheim, Les Brown, Donald Trump, John A. Gotti, Johnny Green, Spencer Tunick, Troy Donahue, James E. Briggs, Albert Tate, Jr., Johnny Mandel, Robert Allen, Martin Kunert, Daniel Cassidy, Alfred D. Sieminski, Robert Douglas Heaton, Fairleigh Dickinson, Jr.. Excerpt:New York Military Academy New York Military Academy , or NYMA , is an American private boarding school located in Cornwall-on-Hudson , New York . It was founded in 1889 by Charles Jefferson Wright, a Civil War veteran and former school teacher from New Hampshire who believed that a military structure provided the best environment for academic achievement, a philosophy to which the school still adheres. NYMA has a long history as a college preparatory school with a military structure that enrolls students from the New York metropolitan area as well as around the country and the world.Wright's successor, Sebastian Jones, presided over the Academy from 1894-1922, guiding it during its most critical period of growth from a young and small institution of 48 cadets , through a disastrous fire in 1910, and throughout an extensive reconstruction program. NYMA is now one of the oldest military schools in the United States. In 1975, the Academy became a coeducational institution, admitting women for the first time in the school's history.The school announced on April 23, 2010, that operations would cease due to dwindling enrollment and financial problems. New York Military Academy planned to graduate its 121st class in May 2010 and not reopen in the fall. Location The Academy is located in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, in the Hudson Highlands , at the foot of Storm King Mountain , and just above the Hudson River . It is approximately 60 miles (97 km) north of New York City , or about one hour ... ... Read more

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Chapters: Ira Gershwin, Alan Jay Lerner, Oscar Hammerstein Ii, Stephen Sondheim, Adolph Green, Cole Porter, Otto Harbach, John Sebastian, Lorenz Hart, Paul Francis Webster, Robert B. Sherman, Harry Warren, Elliot Goldenthal, Michael John Lachiusa, Yip Harburg, Rupert Holmes, Marc Shaiman, Sammy Cahn, Stephen Schwartz, Fred Ebb, Norman Gimbel, Al Sherman, Betty Comden, William Finn, Marcy Heisler, Adam Guettel, Buddy Feyne, Lynn Ahrens, David Yazbek, Burton Lane, Kander and Ebb, Dorothy Fields, Jeff Marx, Morrie Ryskind, Robert Lopez, Gus Kahn, George Bassman, Roland Ruby, Kevin Murphy, Howard Ashman, Glenn Slater, Elizabeth Swados, Gerard Alessandrini, Michael Stewart, Matt Corriel, Jerry Ross, Harold Adamson, Brian Lowdermilk, Brian Yorkey, David Zippel, Harold Rome, Ned Washington, Tom Adair, Gretchen Cryer, Dick Vosburgh, Fred Alley, Carolyn Leigh, Hal Hackady, Bruce Geller, George Griggs, John Dempsey, John La Touche, Greg Kotis, Hugo Peretti, Ted Fetter, Howard Lindsay, Luigi Creatore, Herbert Reynolds, Micki Grant, Mary Cohan, Gerald Freedman, Mark Hollmann, Brooks Bowman, Michael Patrick Walker, Kait Kerrigan, Scott Wittman, Michael Korie, Robert Bache Smith, Douglas J. Cohen, William Engvick, June Carroll, Lindsay and Crouse, Billy Aronson, John Blackburn, Bruce Barthol, Paul Nassau. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 368. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (eight, more than any other composer) including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. He has been described as "the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theatre." His mo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=29268 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Mel Brooks, Stephen Sondheim, Irving Berlin, Philip Glass, Jerome Kern, Frederick Loewe, Cole Porter, Mary Rodgers, Kurt Weill, Jule Styne, Richard Rodgers, John Sebastian, Eubie Blake, Jerry Herman, Frank Loesser, Jim Steinman, Burt Bacharach, Robert B. Sherman, Harry Warren, Richard M. Sherman, Elliot Goldenthal, Marvin Hamlisch, Maury Yeston, Michael John Lachiusa, George M. Cohan, Vincent Youmans, Elmer Bernstein, Ricky Ian Gordon, Jonathan Larson, Rupert Holmes, Harold Arlen, Alan Menken, Meredith Willson, Stephen Schwartz, Jason Robert Brown, Vernon Duke, Cy Coleman, Marc Blitzstein, Robert Hood Bowers, Jimmy Van Heusen, Frank Wildhorn, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Barney Fagan, Al Sherman, William Finn, Stephen Flaherty, Ivan Caryll, Adam Guettel, Bernard J. Taylor, Gus Edwards, Robert E. Dolan, Charles Strouse, Henry Krieger, Buddy Feyne, David Yazbek, William Furst, Burton Lane, John Kander, D. C. Anderson, Joe Jordan, Don Walker, Joshua Rosenblum, Jeff Marx, Robert Lopez, John Wallowitch, Andrew Lippa, George Bassman, Wallace Arthur Sabin, John J. Braham, Woolson Morse, Diedre Murray, Hugh Martin, Arthur Schwartz, Roland Ruby, Edward Harrigan, Ted Snyder, Sherman Edwards, Sigmund Romberg, Tom Kitt, Elizabeth Swados, Paul Tietjens, Matthew Sklar, Rick Besoyan, Jerry Bock, Gerard Alessandrini, Ervin Drake, Kay Swift, Matt Corriel, Buddy Sheffield, Lerner and Loewe, Harvey Schmidt, Lew Brown, Chris Rael, Mitch Leigh, Jerry Ross, Glen Roven, Lucy Simon, Zina Goldrich, Edward Barnes, Brian Lowdermilk, Jerome Moross, Louis Hirsch, Craig Carnelia, Herbert Stothart, Richard Lewine, Leon Carr, Richard A. Whiting, Dick Scanlan, Harold Rome, John Reeger, Jeanine Tesori, J. T. Buck, Rick Crom, Abner Silver, Charles Title, Will Aronson, Harry Tierney, Edu... ... Read more

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Chapters: John Adams, Peter Gabriel, Stephen Sondheim, Krzysztof Penderecki, Anthony Hopkins, Felix Mendelssohn, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, George Martin, Luciano Berio, Martha Argerich, Victoria Wood, György Ligeti, Alfred Brendel, Yo-Yo Ma, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Vladimir Horowitz, John Williams, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Mstislav Rostropovich, Otto Klemperer, Milton Babbitt, Itzhak Perlman, Paul Mccartney, Joan Sutherland, Trevor Pinnock, Daniel Barenboim, Jessye Norman, Renée Fleming, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Alexander Goehr, Colin Davis, Django Bates, Birgit Nilsson, Kiri Te Kanawa, Malcolm Arnold, Henri Dutilleux, Elliott Carter, Valery Gergiev, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Peter Maxwell Davies, Charles Mackerras, James Newton Howard, Valerie Masterson, André Previn, Hans Werner Henze, Julian Bream, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Ignaz Moscheles, Bernard Haitink, Emil Gilels, Riccardo Muti, Leonard Slatkin, Bryn Terfel, Yuri Bashmet, Murray Perahia, Joshua Bell, John Eliot Gardiner, Gwyneth Jones, Gordon Crosse, Anne Sofie Von Otter, Claudio Abbado, Ian Bostridge, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Richard Van Allan, Mark Elder, Kyung-Wha Chung, Mariss Jansons, Stan Tracey, Nicolai Gedda, James Galway, Simon Harris, János Starker, Van Cliburn, Cecilia Bartoli, Simon Keenlyside, Magnus Lindberg, Kenny Wheeler, Kurt Masur, Paul Daniel, David Willcocks, Barry Tuckwell, James Macmillan, James Lockhart, Antal Doráti, Riccardo Chailly, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Oliver Knussen, Stephen Hough, Kent Nagano, George Benjamin, Mitsuko Uchida, Christopher Hogwood, Carlo Maria Giulini, Benjamin Luxon, Evgeny Kissin, Gillian Weir, Roger Norrington, Barbara Bonney, Gundula Janowitz, Peter Schreier, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, John Mccabe, Ian Bousfield, William Christie, Piers Lane, John Stainer, Christa Ludwig, Henryk Szeryng, Jon Vickers, Radu Lupu, Emma Kirkby, Pinchas Zukerman, Judith Weir, Gidon Kremer, Gustav Leonhardt, Thomas Ha...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=13736167 ... Read more

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Title: Stephen Sondheim: A Life.(Review)
Author: Linda Barnhart
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1999
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: 55Issue: 4Page: 946(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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Chapters: New York Military Academy Alumni, Francis Ford Coppola, Stephen Sondheim, Les Brown, Donald Trump, John A. Gotti, Johnny Green, Spencer Tunick, Troy Donahue, James E. Briggs, Albert Tate, Jr., Johnny Mandel, Robert Allen, Martin Kunert, Daniel Cassidy, Alfred D. Sieminski, Robert Douglas Heaton, Fairleigh Dickinson, Jr.. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 123. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (eight, more than any other composer) including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. He has been described as "the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theatre." His most famous scores include (as composer/lyricist) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins, as well as the lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy. He was president of the Dramatists Guild from 1973 to 1981. Sondheim was born in New York City to Etta Janet (née Fox) and Herbert Sondheim. He grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and later, after his parents divorced, on a farm in Pennsylvania. Herbert, his father, was a dress manufacturer and Foxy, his mother, designed the dresses. As an only child of well-to-do parents living in The San Remo on Central Park West, he is described in Meryle Secrest's biography, Stephen Sondheim: A Life, as having had an isolated and emotionally neglected childhood. While living in New York, Stephen Sondheim attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School. Later, Sondheim attended George School, a private Quaker pre...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=29268 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Tonight" is a popular song with music written by Leonard Bernstein and the lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, published in 1956.It was introduced in the Broadway musical, West Side Story. The song was revived in 1961 on single records in versions by Ferrante and Teicher , and Eddie Fisher, whose version narrowly missed the Top 40.Many of the pieces in "West Side Story" experiment with different melodic tricks. This song is notable for its prominent perfect fourth intervals, and a theme that starts on a pentatonic scale but develops into a western key. ... Read more