Sondheim for Piano Solo: Phillip Keveren Series

Phillip Keveren

Jun 2022 · Hal Leonard Corporation

About this ebook

(Piano Solo Composer Collection). Sondheim songs are works of art that have charmed, challenged, and inspired theatre audiences and musicians. This carefully curated collection celebrates the "music" part of Sondheim's brilliance and Phillip's inventiveness help make Sondheim's gorgeous music accessible to more musicians. Titles include: Anyone Can Whistle * Being Alive * Children Will Listen * Comedy Tonight * Good Thing Going * I Remember * Johanna * Not a Day Goes By * Old Friends * Pretty Women * Sunday, and more!

About the author

Stephen Sondheim was born in New York and studied music at Williams College, where he wrote the lyrics and music for two college shows. Sondheim also studied at Princeton University with Milton Babbit. He received recognition for writing lyrics for Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story (1957) and success as a lyricist-composer with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962). However, his next musical, Anyone Can Whistle (1964), was unsuccessful. The production of Company (1970) again established Sondheim as a major composer and lyricist on Broadway. Sondheim's other productions include Follies (1971); A Little Night Music (1973), wherein its leading song, "Send in the Clowns," was awarded a Grammy in 1976; and Sunday in the Park with George (1983), a musical inspired by George Seurat's famous painting "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte." He has won him three Tony Awards, a Grammy Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Best Musical Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.