Stephen Sondheim - The Story So Far..
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Artist: Stephen SondheimEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-09-30
Music Label: SONY CLASSICS
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- America
- Tonight
- Gee, Officer Krupke
- Everything's Coming Up Roses
- Comedy Tonight
- Everybody Ought to Have a Maid
- There's Something About a War
- Don't Laugh
- Anyone Can Whistle
- A Parade in Town
- A Hero is Coming
- This Week, Americans
- Perhaps
- Everybody Loves Leona
- The Boy From...
- (If You Can Find Me) I'm Here
- Arts and Crafts
- I Remember Sky
- When?
- Take Me to the World
- Another Hundred People
- The Ladies Who Lunch
- Being Alive
- Happily Ever After
- Waiting for the Girls Upstairs
- Broadway Baby
- Losing My Mind
- I'm Still Here
- Can That Boy Fox Trot!
- The Miller's Son
- Liaisons
- Send in the Clowns
- Night Waltz (Love Takes Time)
- Silly People
- Not Quite Night
- Welcome to Kanagawa
- Pretty Lady
- Prayers
- There is No Other Way
- The Ballad of Sweeney Todd
- Green Finch and Linnet Bird
- A Little Priest
- The Worst Pies in London
- Not a Day Goes By
- Old Friends
- Finishing the Hat
- Agony
- Children Will Listen
- Have to Give Her Someone
- Interesting Questions
- Second Midnight
- Everybody's Got the Right
- The Ballad of Booth
- Happiness
- I Wish I Could Forget You
- Bounce
- Isn't He Something!
- Invocation and Instructions to the Audience
- I Must Be Dreaming
- The Two of You
- Class
- Love's a Bond
- In the Movies
- I'm All For You
- They Ask Me Why I Believe in You
- Incidental Music
- Truly Content
- No, Mary Ann
- Incidental Music
- Theme
- Auto Show
- Arlette by Night
- Operetta
- Theme (European version)
- I Never Do Anything Twice (The Madam's Song)
- Theme
- Sooner or Later
- Live Alone and Like It
- What Can You Lose?
- Back in Business
- More
- Water Under the Bridge
Music reviews of The Story So Far..
Music Review: Enchanting, enthralling, entertaining: must have!
Rating: 5 Stars
"If they asked me, I could write a book . . ." oops, wrong songwriter. But that's the way I feel about Sondheim. Back in 1971 a college pal took me to see "Company" in LA. Thus began my life-long love affair with Sondheim. I am proud to say I saw "Follies" in LA back then too!
I own most of the available CDs (shows and compilations). I put "The Story So Far" into my refurbished, just purchased iPod. (I also created a whole playlist with just Sondheim's work.)
I cried, laughed, sang along for hours today, while riding buses and walking in downtown Santa Monica, doing errands. I feel as if I'm with my best friend, the wisest, wittiest person in the world.
I truly love the alternative versions to his songs. Really shows you the work he puts into his creations. So many settle for "whatev" these days. His craftsmanship, integrity, and pure genius shines through in this compilation.
The packaging is very elegant as well: clean layouts, large photos, beautiful cover, easy to read. I love the behind-the-scenes photos, capturing so many moods of his expressive face, which perfectly match his work. He is truly like wine: his face becomes more beautiful and interesting as the years pass by.
My only complaint is overlooking "Everybody Says Don't" from "Anyone Can Whistle." It's an amazingly life-affirming, courageous song, written in 1964, during a very turbulent climate of radical social change and dissent. I prefer Jerry Herman's "Before the Parade Passes By" from "Hello Dolly" to Sondheim's "A Parade in Town." Both musicals released the same year. I wish they'd retire the latter song and revive "Everybody Says Don't," a truly timeless and universal song of personal freedom and responsibility. Next boxed set, ok?
Love SONDHEIM SINGING! Yes, I know peeps have written re other Sondheim releases they prefer "real" singers. NOT I! I love hearing his voice -- the man behind my fave songs. I could listen to him for hours, longer and more often than trained voices who lack his personality, his warmth, his humanity.
Finally, please, Masterworks Broadway/Sony Legacy promote this wonderful package! I found out about this release because I blogged about Sondheim's Lifetime Achievement Tony Award earlier this year. A good friend read my entry and was surprised I'm such a "Broadway Baby." I'm known as an iconic punk rock photographer and Amazon sells my solo book, and many books and CDs with tons of my photos. But give me Broadway and Sondheim over any genre or songwriter! My friend sent it to me, hot off the presses, so to speak. So please get the word out!
"Sooner or Later" you're gonna buy "STEPHEN SONDHEIM THE STORY SO FAR." Buy it now!
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Description of The Story So Far..
From West Side Story and Gypsy to Into the Woods and The Frogs , here's the first set to cross the whole career of Broadway's foremost living composer/lyricist! Along the way you'll dig into a treasure chest of unreleased tracks (33 including 12 performed by Sondheim, pieces from eight un-produced shows and films, songs cut from Company, Into the Woods, A Little Night Music and more) plus Everything's Coming Up Roses Ethel Merman; Comedy Tonight Zero Mostel; A Parade in Town Angela Lansbury; (If You Can Find Me) I'm Here Anthony Perkins; I'm Still Here Carol Burnett; Children Will Listen Bernadette Peters; Finishing the Hat Mandy Patinkin, and more. The visuals and stories in the 80-page book top off a loving tribute to this titan of the Tonys.Stephen Sondheim?s career is so rich that trying to encompass it on a mere four discs seems like a tall order. This satisfying set tries to please both newbies (the first three discs propose an overview of the master?s career via excerpts from all of his shows) and hardcore fans (the fourth disc sheds some light on lesser-known corners of Sondheim?s oeuvre). Of course, the individual selections won?t please everybody (Sunday in the Park with George gets one song while Evening Primrose and Into the Woods get four each?) but at least there are clear curatorial decisions. For instance, disc 2 covers only four shows?Company, Follies, A Little Night Music and Pacific Overtures?and clearly puts them up as Sondheim?s iconic works. Disc 4 is incredibly fun, maybe because a lot of the material is new to us. Highlights include "Truly Content" from 1962?s Passionella, excerpts from Sondheim?s superb Jazz Age?style score for Alain Resnais? 1974 movie Stavisky, and not one but four previously unreleased tracks from Dick Tracy. The physical set comes with a nice booklet that includes, among other things, an essay by Sondheim expert Mark Eden Horowitz and the lyrics of the previously unreleased songs. -- Elisabeth Vincentelli
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