Pajama Guy Gets Results!!!
From "The Master," posted on this blog March 22, 2005:
Sondheim grew up next door to his mentor, Oscar Hammerstein. He said he learned more in a day with Hammerstein than he could learn in a year on his own. I remember years ago reading an essay (which I can't find on the internet) Sondheim wrote about lyric-writing that taught me more in a sitting than I could have learned in a year on my own.
I'd like him to write two books. First, an instruction book telling us everything he knows about creating musicals. He put so much into a short essay that a full-length work would be astonishing. Second, an autobiography--it'd be great to hear his take on a career that starts in the heyday of the integrated musical and comes up to, well, the age of Sondheim (or Andrew Lloyd Weber--you call it).
Now we get this in The New York Times:
And yet for an artist long admired for breaking new ground with composition form and incisive, nuanced lyrics, the new approach has also been stimulating. While he is now completing a two-volume book on theater and lyric writing, Mr. Sondheim said, he is not content simply to be a custodian for his shows or fly all over the world putting seals of approval on directors’ rethinking of his works.
Sondheim grew up next door to his mentor, Oscar Hammerstein. He said he learned more in a day with Hammerstein than he could learn in a year on his own. I remember years ago reading an essay (which I can't find on the internet) Sondheim wrote about lyric-writing that taught me more in a sitting than I could have learned in a year on my own.
I'd like him to write two books. First, an instruction book telling us everything he knows about creating musicals. He put so much into a short essay that a full-length work would be astonishing. Second, an autobiography--it'd be great to hear his take on a career that starts in the heyday of the integrated musical and comes up to, well, the age of Sondheim (or Andrew Lloyd Weber--you call it).
Now we get this in The New York Times:
And yet for an artist long admired for breaking new ground with composition form and incisive, nuanced lyrics, the new approach has also been stimulating. While he is now completing a two-volume book on theater and lyric writing, Mr. Sondheim said, he is not content simply to be a custodian for his shows or fly all over the world putting seals of approval on directors’ rethinking of his works.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:39 AM
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