Sondheim at Herbst Theater

Posted on Mar 11, 2008 | 1 comment
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This past Sunday was a date I’d been anticipating for months. As part of the City Arts and Lectures series here in San Francisco, Stephen Sondheim sat down with Frank Rich for a thoroughly spontaneous and entertaining hour-and-a-half discussion. Now, I’ve read and heard so many interviews and similar Sondheim talks over the years, so there was very...

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Sondheim's Favorite: "Someone in a Tree"

Posted on Jan 4, 2008 | 0 comments
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It is well known among Sondheim kooks such as myself that Stephen Sondheim’s favorite among his own songs is “Someone in a Tree” from the 1976 musical Pacific Overtures. I love this song too, but it’s never been clear to me exactly why it stands out in particular for Sondheim. Briefly, the song attempts to deal with a particular event...

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Revisiting the Trunk: "You Must Learn"

Posted on Oct 5, 2007 | 0 comments
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Throughout the year I’ve been occasionally posting recordings of songs from my earlier musical The Ghost of Wu. Today’s installment is the song “You Must Learn”, in which an ambitious mother lectures her naïve daughter, a concubine, in the ways of the Emperor’s court. This song is probably the most Sondheim-derivative thing...

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Choral Music for Bedtime

Posted on Aug 30, 2007 | 1 comment
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About a year and a half ago, I posted a little something about my son’s taste in orchestral music. He was about to turn three then, and now he’s four and a half. Since that time, my ability to play music for him has been limited for various boring technical and life reasons. A few weeks ago, I got a new mobile phone that functions as a music...

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Sondheim Like That

Posted on Aug 12, 2007 | 3 comments
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This is asking for trouble; I’m sure of it. In recent days a large number of people have found this site by way of a Google search on the words “sondheim like that”, mostly from the Washington, D.C. area. Someone please tell me what this means. Should I also be Googling this phrase?

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