The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia

Rick Pender (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

652 Seiten

2021
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-1586-2 (ISBN)

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The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia is the first reference volume devoted to the works of this prolific composer and lyricist. The encyclopedia's entries provide readers with detailed information about Sondheim's work and key figures in his career, including his apprenticeship with Oscar Hammerstein II, his early work with Leonard Bernstein, and his work on television.

Entries include all of his major works and key songs from such musicals as Assassins, Company, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Gypsy, Into the Woods, A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, and West Side Story. Additional entries focus on his key collaborators, from lyricists to directors.

Rick Pender has been an award-winning theater critic since 1986. He has written for CityBeat, Cincinnati's alternative newsweekly, since it was founded in 1994. From 1998 until 2006, he was the newspaper's arts and entertainment editor and is currently a contributing editor, writing a theater column and reviewing local theater productions. In 2002, the Society of Professional Journalists named him Ohio's best critic. Pender is a past chair of the American Theatre Critics Association. From 2015 to 2017 he served as executive editor and publisher of Everything Sondheim, a website and quarterly magazine. He was also the managing editor of The Sondheim Review, a quarterly magazine.

Erscheinungsdatum	17.08.2020
Sprache	englisch
Maße	193 x 265 mm
Gewicht	1556 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
ISBN-10	1-5381-1586-7 / 1538115867
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-1586-2 / 9781538115862
Zustand	Neuware