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Stephen Joshua Sondheim (/ ˈ s ɒ n d h aɪ m /; 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.
Jun 23, 2024 · Stephen Sondheim (born March 22, 1930, New York, New York, U.S.—died November 26, 2021, Roxbury, Connecticut) was an American composer and lyricist whose brilliance in matching words and music in dramatic situations broke new ground for Broadway musical theater.
Nov 26, 2021 · 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...
Dec 3, 2021 · American lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim wrote musicals based on sources as varied as fairy tales, a painting by Georges Seurat, ancient Roman comedy and an Ingmar Bergman film.
Nov 27, 2021 · Stephen Sondheim, the award-winning composer-lyricist who took the Broadway musical to a higher level of emotional complexity than his predecessors in shows such as “Company,” “Follies” and...
Nov 26, 2021 · Stephen Sondheim, the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning Broadway songwriter has died at age 91. His death occurred early this morning, according to Aaron Meier at DKC O&M, the...
Nov 26, 2021 · Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, one of the most influential figures in the American musical theater, has died. He was 91.
Nov 27, 2021 · NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Sondheim, the songwriter who reshaped the American musical theater in the second half of the 20th century with his intelligent, intricately rhymed lyrics, his use of evocative melodies and his willingness to tackle unusual subjects, has died. He was 91.
Nov 27, 2021 · Legendary US composer and songwriter Stephen Sondheim has died aged 91. His lawyer told the New York Times that Sondheim passed away on Friday at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut. He was a...
Nov 26, 2021 · 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...
Nov 27, 2021 · Stephen Sondheim, the songwriter who reshaped the American musical theater with his intelligent, intricately rhymed lyrics, has died, his representative confirmed to CBS News. He was 91.
Nov 27, 2021 · Legendary US composer and songwriter Stephen Sondheim has died aged 91. His lawyer told the New York Times that Sondheim passed away on Friday at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut. He was a...
Nov 26, 2021 · Stephen Sondheim, the dominant voice in American musical theater in the second half of the 20th century and the composer with the most Tony Awards, has died. The Broadway icon died Friday,...
Nov 26, 2021 · One of the greats of Broadway musicals, Stephen Sondheim, died Friday at his home at the age of 91. He was a six-time Tony Award winner renowned for his words and music, starting in the 1950s.
Nov 27, 2021 · Stephen Sondheim, the renowned composer of “Into the Woods,” “Sweeney Todd,” “Gypsy,” “Sunday in the Park with George” and other essential works of musical theater, died early Friday...
1 day ago · 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.
Nov 26, 2021 · Stephen Sondheim, the sublime and sophisticated composer and lyricist who revolutionized American musical theater with such achievements as Company, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park With...
Nov 26, 2021 · 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 of...
Feb 14, 2022 · D. T. Max talks with the legendary composer Stephen Sondheim, who died in November, about the ideas he’d abandoned, the minutiae of his technique, and the lesson that any artist must learn.
Stephen Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist whose most famous work includes A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), and Into the Woods (1987).
Nov 27, 2021 · Stephen Sondheim has died at 91. Pop Culture Happy Hour's Linda Holmes looks back on her favorite Sondheim tunes.
Nov 26, 2021 · Stephen Sondheim, one of the giants of Broadway songwriting, died early Friday at his home in Roxbury, CT. He was 91. Attorney F. Richard Pappas, announced the death, which he described as sudden.
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'.
6 days ago · A Little Night Music was originally produced and directed on Broadway in 1973 by Harold Prince, and won six Tony Awards including best musical. Sondheim’s eighth musical, it features his highly ...
6 days ago · Sondheim described his score as a theme and variations. Numbers, interludes and underscoring are set in waltzy time signatures of three beats: 3/4, 3/2, 6/8 and so on, with dancing styles like the ...
Naturally, Sondheim fans took to items like a signed manuscript musical quotation from his hit Into the Woods, which, while estimated to sell for a max of $1,200, actually sold for a final price ...
Jun 27, 2024 · On June 27, the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical A Little Night Music will be presented in concert at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, its ravishing, romantic score having been lavished ...
Jun 26, 2024 · Turner will portray Madame Armfeldt in the musical tribute to composer Stephen Sondheim. Bradford Kenney, the executive artistic director at the Playhouse, and Deborah Warren, the theater’s ...
2 days ago · 25 likes, 0 comments - ohanatheatricalproductions on July 2, 2024: "Our brilliant cast - get your tickets today to Stephen Sondheim’s epic fairytale about wishes, family and the choices we make. Tickets at Town Hall Theatre’s website or link in bio.".
