Sondheim detested his mother, who was said to be psychologically abusive and to have projected her anger from her failed marriage onto her son: "When my father left her, she substituted me for him. And she used me the way she used him, to come on to and to berate, beat up on, you see. 查看更多內容 Stephen Joshua Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist. One of the most important figures in 20th-century musical theater, Sondheim is credited for having "reinvented the American musical" with shows that … 查看更多內容 Sondheim was born on March 22, 1930, into a Jewish family in New York City, the son of Etta Janet ("Foxy"; née Fox; 1897–1992) and Herbert Sondheim (1895–1966). His paternal grandparents, Isaac and Rosa, were German Jews, and his maternal … 查看更多內容 According to Sondheim, he was asked to translate Mahagonny-Songspiel: "But I'm not a Brecht/Weill fan and that's really all there is to it. I'm an apostate: I like Weill's music when he came to America better than I do his stuff before ... I love The Threepenny Opera but, … 查看更多內容 According to Sondheim, when he asked Milton Babbitt if he could study atonality, Babbitt replied: "You haven't exhausted tonal resources … 查看更多內容 1954–1959: Early Broadway success Burt Shevelove invited Sondheim to a party where Sondheim arrived before him but knew no one else well. He saw a familiar face, 查看更多內容 Conversations with Frank Rich and others The Kennedy Center staged a 15-week repertory festival of six Sondheim musicals—Sweeney Todd, Company, Sunday in the Park with George, Merrily We Roll Along, Passion, and A Little Night Music—from … 查看更多內容 Sondheim received an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards, and eight Grammy Awards. He also received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Sunday in the Park with George (1985, shared with James Lapine) and was honored with the Kennedy Center Honors, … 查看更多內容 網頁2024年11月26日 · Stephen Sondheim, the dominant voice in American musical theater in the second half of the 20th century and the composer with the most Tony Awards, has …
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網頁2024年10月12日 · Stephen Sondheim was born in 1930, in New York City, but he moved to Pennsylvania when he was about 10 years old after his parents divorced. Sondheim did not have a great relationship with... 網頁2024年11月26日 · Stephen Sondheim, the sublime and sophisticated composer and lyricist who revolutionized American ... 1930, in New York City. His father, Herbert, was a dress manufacturer, and his mother, Etta, a ... pit found 0 tests
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網頁2024年11月27日 · After his parents split up when he was 10 years old, Sondheim moved with his mother to rural Pennsylvania, where she bought a farm. He later said his mother took out her wrath over the... 網頁2024年11月26日 · At 10, his parents divorced and Sondheim’s mother bought a house in Doylestown, Pa., where one of their Bucks County neighbors was lyricist Oscar … 網頁2024年11月27日 · Sondheim was estranged from his mother throughout his adult life, though he continued to support her financially. In another shocking incident from their … pit for storing grain