Stephen Sondheim: A Life - Rilegato

Secrest, Meryle

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ISBN 10: 0679448179 ISBN 13: 9780679448174

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1998

Riassunto

A full-scale portrait of the distinguished composer-lyricist draws on personal interviews with Sondheim to describe his troubled childhood, early struggles, rise to the pinnacle of Broadway musical theater, collaboration with Hal Prince, and original theatrical works. 30,000 first printing. Lit Guild. Tour.

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L'autore:

Meryle Secrest was born and educated in Bath, England. She has written biographies of Romaine Brooks, Bernard Berenson, Kenneth Clark, Salvador Dalí, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Leonard Bernstein.

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full-scale life of the most
important composer-lyricist at work in musical theatre today, Meryle Secrest, the biographer of Frank Lloyd Wright and Leonard Bernstein, draws on her extended conversations with Stephen Sondheim as well as on her interviews with his friends, family, collaborators, and lovers to bring us not only the artist--as a master of
modernist compositional style--but also the private man.
Beginning with his early childhood on New York's prosperous Upper West Side, Secrest describes how Sondheim was taught to play the piano by his father, a successful dress manufacturer and amateur musician. She writes about Sondheim's early ambition to become a concert pianist, about the effect on him of his parents' divorce when he was ten, about his years in military and private schools. She writes about his feelings of loneliness and abandonment, about the refuge he found in the home of Oscar and Dorothy Hammerstein, and his determination to become just like Oscar.
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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679448179
• ISBN 13: 9780679448174
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 461