Reminiscences of Stephen Sondheim, 1982.

Biographical Note

Composer; lyricist

Scope and Contents

Family life, boarding school, Williams College; Westport Playhouse, apprenticeship; influence and friendship of Oscar Hammerstein; ALLEGRO; composing music for film: STAVISKY, directorial control; writing and production of SWEENEY TODD, SATURDAY NIGHT, WEST SIDE STORY, SHIELD; reflections on publicity, critics, audiences; work with Dramatists' Guild; songwriters; impressions of Lemuel Ayers, Harold Prince, Alain Resnais

Subjects

• Composers--Interviews.
• Composition (Music)
• Daum, Raymond L., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 1895-1960.
• Interviews.
• Musical criticism.
• Musicals.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Popular music--Writing and publishing.
• Sondheim, Stephen--Interviews.
• Theater--Production and direction.