"Getting Married Today" is a song in which a woman expresses her extraordinary worry on her wedding day, repeatedly declaring that in fact, she will not get married after all. It couldn't be in autumn. The less achievement/ The less defeat. And then every now and then - the other 60 percent - it's something to build on. But out there in front of other people with performers, it's got to carry its own weight and I'm worried it won't. DetailsDownload Stephen Sondheim Could I Leave You? There's a funny song and this and that.... ' I have had that experience with every show. Children's Instruments. It's not that it's too good for people, it's just that it's too unexpected to sustain itself very firmly in the commercial theater. '' Title: Could I Leave You? Ben about their lackluster marriage. ''It certainly relates to music, '' Sondheim says. Stephen Sondheim Songs from Musicals.
Technology & Recording. Vocal Exam Material. How could I survive? Follies Soundtrack Lyrics. Not available in your region. Catalog SKU number of the notation is 85545. The first major influence on Sondheim was Oscar Hammerstein. Then, too, there is his well-known habit of not writing songs until after he has seen the script; even then, he cannot determine the key and octave range for each song until the cast has been chosen. RSL Classical Violin. Darling, you keep the d**. Percussion and Drums. Choose your instrument. ''Every time I've done a show and someone has said, 'Gee, that's odd, ' I always had a rationale for why it wasn't, '' Sondheim says. And that's exactly what Lerner and Loewe saw in it.
But I′ve done that already--or didn't you know, love? It's a lot of work for nothing. ''I've never read the original reviews, '' Sondheim says, ''but I wonder if people had any idea what they were listening to. Some of the stories focus on Sondheim's life and career, while others relate to the shows from which the songs come or set up the moment before the song. The Park with George, '' a few chapters of Japanese history for ''Pacific Overtures. '' Yet that very clash between high art and popular appeal is central to the creative tension, the dynamism, in Sondheim's work. Look, Listen, Learn. Share your thoughts about Could I Leave You. Side by Side by Sondheim is a collection of Stephen Sondheim songs, some he has written by himself and some for which he has written the lyrics and collaborated with other composers. And the evenings of martyred looks, cryptic sighs. But at times Sondheim has written so convincingly for troubled and angry characters that even his collaborators have winced at the onslaught. Harold Prince, Sondheim's most regular collaborator, has ventured into opera, the direction some think Sondheim should take. Follies the Musical - Could I Leave You? Leonard Bernstein wrote the music.
That's part of a composer's temperament. It never made its money back. ''The first thing I did was discuss the motivations with Hal and Hugh (Wheeler, the librettist) and write a page of sentences about what she was feeling, things like 'The hardest human thing to do is sever a relationship, ' 'You like to suffer, ' 'You're afraid of your own age. ' It's almost subconscious, but if you study music, you must be aware of these things. From ''Follies, '' a song in which a middle-aged woman names all the elements of her empty marriage. The numbers are a mix of well known favorites from Sondheim's work as well as some more obscure pieces, or songs that didn't make it into famous shows. But there is a quirk in Sondheim's writing process, according to friends and colleagues, a tendency to procrastinate, both in choosing a project and actually writing it.
Get Chordify Premium now. The photograph captures Sondheim during the rare public moment of a creative process that usually transpires in the privacy of his study, in the ultimate privacy of his mind. Darling, shall we dance? It takes so long to write a song. Electro Acoustic Guitar. After you complete your order, you will receive an order confirmation e-mail where a download link will be presented for you to obtain the notes. Running merrily through the snow? ''He backs into most every project, '' Prince says. Passionless lovemaking once a year? Sugar you keep the spinet and all of our friends and. I don't remember why, but one day back when we all still worked in-person at the NPR offices, Ari Shapiro came by my desk when I wasn't there and left me a note. The number (SKU) in the catalogue is Musical/Show and code 85545.
PRODUCT FORMAT: Sheet-Digital. "Getting Married Today, " from Company. The folders are only one part of a standard songwriting process for Sondheim. The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues. Follies the Musical Lyrics. Sheet Music and Books. Sondheim counts among his other theatrical influences the composers Harold Arlen and Jerome Kern ''for their harmonic language, '' and the lyricists Cole Porter for playfulness, Yip Harburg for an antic imagination and both Dorothy Fields and Frank Loesser for their command of conversational, colloquial language. For a mature voice, this is a great song. And I know sometimes he's talked about not even liking the lyrics.
Recorded Performance. Strings Sheet Music. A collection of puzzles - from the Rubik's Cube to elaborate three-dimensional jigsaws - fills his Turtle Bay town house. "You Could Drive a Person Crazy". He elaborates on the notion: ''What 'neurotic people' means to me is people with conflicts. When she talks about the things she's going to leave by leaving her husband, I picked things not because I thought they were funny but because I wanted to give a sense of her life. The show is described by the Narrator as more of a "show than a play. "