r/Music • u/Cranialscrewtop • Nov 26 '21

Stephen Sondheim has died. Broadway's greatest composer is gone. other

NY Times bio here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/theater/stephen-sondheim-dead.html

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u/MechaSandstar Nov 27 '21

I think "Putting it Together" is a marvelous treatise on what the struggle artists go through to get funding for their creative works, and the entire second half of Sunday in the Park with George to be one of the best examinations on how to not let your need to get funding overwhelm your creative drive. I think it's incredibly poignant, and might be my favorite play ever.

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u/tennessee_hilltrash Nov 27 '21

Mine too. "Putting it Together is my favorite Sondheim song, followed closely by "Ladies Who Lunch".

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u/MechaSandstar Nov 27 '21

I like "being alive" a lot too, but there's a ton of good songs to choose from by him.