Please check the box below to regain access to. GROSS: That's "Opening Doors" from "Merrily We Roll Along" by my guest, Stephen Sondheim, who said this is his really autobiographical song. PETERSON: (As Young Ben, singing) Don't worry, dearie. Whereas, yeah, of course you're always going to end up rhyming day and may and say over and over and over again, you know, from song to song, show to show, because they're useful and they're words that have many meanings and many connotations. PRICE: (As Charley) (Singing) One minute. Title: Not a Day Goes By.
Two great songs, one great performer. Same thing is true of "Pirelli's Miracle Elixir. " PETERSON: (As Young Ben, singing) Will it be sad? So we decided on something more menacing and ganglike. GROSS: That's "Not A Day Goes By" from the 1994 York Theater Company revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along. " The end result is unimpressive. Don Sebesky: Orchestration. And then let Herbie, her lover, and Louise, her daughter, whom she's focusing on, react like - as if they were in front of, I don't know, a cobra, I mean, just completely terrified and motionless and cowering.
We are supposed to not just like Betty Buckley. AMY RYDER: (As Mary) (Singing) Not a day goes by, not a single day, but you're somewhere a part of my life and it looks like you'll stay. Let's get back to the interview I recorded with Stephen Sondheim in 2010, after the publication of his book "Finishing The Hat, " a collection of his lyrics from 1954 to '81 and his comments about them, along with what he describes as his principles, grudges, whines and anecdotes. Needless to say, Bernadette is simply luminous here. And so I thought - if she can't act that moment because it's a - you know, it's a huge moment, you know, a woman facing a horrifying crisis and bulling her way through it. Track 9: "Happiness" (from Passion). We'll hear more of Sondheim's songs and the stories behind them after we take a short break. GROSS: Can you give me an example of an insight you got from Babbitt studying, say, a Jerome Kern song? She is somehow different. And they were reading comic books and doing pushups and clowning around. So it was tailoring it that way. I just never connected with it.
We're checking your browser, please wait... If it seems strange to have such a slow and serious song in the second slot, her attention to the lyric proves this to be a solid choice. Plan on thirty seconds of applause at the end; you'll need them to get your equilibrium back. Let's hear another song from the show. Sondheim, Merrily We Roll Along, 1981. Her performance here also suggests that she would be perfect in a full-scale revival of the show. SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SOME PEOPLE"). So having seen that, I then went home to write it. It's, you know, first of all, I didn't have a collaborator. GROSS: Like you can't use a rhyme you've already used? The audience applauds for a mere twenty seconds this time. GROSS: Let's get to this idea of opening doors. And he said, well, maybe in the scene in the bedroom.
GROSS: Now, the song ends with, you know, we're going to beat every whole buggin' gang on the whole buggin' street, on the whole buggin' ever-loving street. CHARLEY: Someday just began COMPANY: Something is stirring, Shifting ground It's just begun. From: Instruments: |Voice, range: D4-F#5 Piano, range: D1-D6|. I wrote my own lyrics and my own music, and the girl is merely an amalgam of people like, particularly I was very close to Mary Rogers, Dick Rogers' daughter. And some of the songs you wrote for the show are reminiscent of the shows that come out of those revues of the '30s and '40s, probably the '20s, too.
GROSS: To create order... SONDHEIM: Out of chaos. Why is Buckley giving us yet another version? "Send In the Clowns" has been recorded and re-recorded to death. SONDHEIM: You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long. And tastes like, well, pity - a woman alone with limited wind and the worst pies in London. When you're a Jet, if the spit hits the fan, you've got brothers around.
6/14/2015 11:01:04 PM. Frankly, I don't think so. Kern was a master at that. But i just go on thinking and sweating.
GROSS: So - OK, so this is Glynis Johns from the original cast recording of "A Little Night Music" singing "Send In The Clowns. Accuracy and availability may vary. But I think what put people off on "Sweeney" was that it had a semioperatic feeling to it. I'll be able to listen to Passion differently now. And you change things as you go along, even though you're just sketching. I mean, I want to get back to the piano as soon as I finish the second volume. Well, that is, in its own way, the mirror image image of self-aggrandizement. However, the inclusion of so much applause on a CD carries with it a subliminal message. It requires no acting. She is given a sparkling arrangement, and sings wonderfully.
It looks like it's molting. But you're still somehow part of my life. Now, of course, it's a musical, so it's never real in a musical, but you can get - you know, "West Side Story" does not say that at the beginning. An American composer and lyricist. Those are all very pretty words, but what do they mean? You know, I love the opening line - some people can get a thrill knitting sweaters and sitting still. GROSS: And you love lyrics of hers that are very colloquial, like "Sunny Side Of The Street. So we wrote something called "This Turf Is Ours. " And you'll say, oh, yes, of course. GROSS: Now, the producer sings: I'll let you know when Stravinsky has a hit, he's saying sarcastically. The first side of the album was a sequence of songs where the characters being sung about got older with each successive song.
GROSS: OK. Well, let's just hear the song. Do you have a sense of why that was so? Rose as a character is ultimately selfish, in a way that Bernadette can never be. Not the Men's Health Crisis, the Gay Men's Health Crisis. Now, you point out that none of your musicals elicited as extreme reaction, both extravagant accolades and contemptuous rage, as "Sweeney" did. Lottie dottie and nobody. Other Songs: Stephen Sondheim Lyrics. So you write that bay is a useful rhyme. Maybe that'll be useful. So, for fans of the show like me, a revival is cause for celebration.
When writing about working with Jule Styne on "Gypsy, " you say, only superhuman confidence keeps you writing fearlessly into old age; Jule Styne was one of the few who had it in spades. The music is by Leonard Bernstein. Can it actually have been thirty years already? GROSS: Stephen Sondheim recorded in 2010. Scorings: Piano/Vocal/Chords.
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