A rapid-fire patter song reminds him of the tongue-twisting "Not Getting Married" from Company. It's like I'm losing my mind. Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content. Is "indicative" of later songs such as Company's "Being Alive" and "Losing My Mind" from Follies. Lyrics powered by Link. Salsini theorizes that Sondheim's mentor, lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, put him up to it. Sondheim was an 18-year-old sophomore at Williams College in Massachusetts in 1948, and a founding member of its Cap and Bells drama society, when he wrote the satirical musical Phinney's Rainbow. But the song that really stood out for him was "What Do I Know? " "[Sondheim] was always an early adopter of technology and it wouldn't surprise me. He always loved gadgets, and I know he used to make home movie type things. It is arguably Sondheim's first produced musical (he'd penned one in high school called By George), and it's the stuff of legend in theater circles because nobody's heard much of it. "I read somewhere that Hammerstein encouraged him to buy an acetate recorder and record his work and I'm sure that Sondheim himself did this recording, " he says. This came as a surprise to Mark Eden Horowitz, a senior music specialist at the Library of Congress whose specialty is musical theater and who worked with Sondheim on several projects.
— recorded the same year — was included on the album "Sondheim Sings, Vol. "Here's this 18-yr-old teenager who's discovering himself and was sent away to school and he was longing for affection. Indeed, in a few hours of nosing around, Horowitz found another copy of Phinney's Rainbow in the private collection of playwright and screenwriter Michael Mitnick. In the middle of the floor. You said you loved me, Credits. Discuss the Losing My Mind [From Follies] Lyrics with the community: Citation. But how do I know, when I know that you said "no". The reason they've not been able to look at it before now, ironically, is that Sondheim hid his early work, even from Salsini's magazine The Sondheim Review.
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind. A yearning for affection. And think about you. Or am I losing my mind? Salsini, who's donating the CD to the Sondheim Research Collection in Milwaukee, admits he's not sure where this particular discovery came from, though he's certain it wasn't from Sondheim. And an orchestrated but lyric-less version of the show's song "What Do I Know? "
Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image's author be unknown at the time of publishing. S. r. l. Website image policy. Salsini says it was written in an hour to satisfy production demands. The show literally fell through the cracks. The title was a riff on the then-popular musical Finian's Rainbow and the middle name of college president James Phinney Baxter III. He is the founder and editor of The Sondheim Review, and author of the recently published memoir, Sondheim and Me: Revealing a Musical Genius. Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal. "As somebody who's lived and breathed Sondheim to the degree I've been able to for my entire adult life, this is a score I really don't know, " he says, adding that he had no idea that a performance recording existed. "Losing My Mind [From Follies] Lyrics. "
The sun comes up, I think about you The coffee cup, I think about you I want you so, it's like I'm losing my mind The morning ends, I think about you I talk to friends and think about you And do they know it's like I'm losing my mind? But as soon as he played it, he realized what he'd found: an hour and 20 minutes of never-published, long missing songs from Phinney's Rainbow. Sheet music for three of the songs was published in 1948. Doing every little chore. You said you loved me Or were you just being kind? So many of his songs express this yearning for affection, Salsini says, and he says "What Do I Know? " A rare recording of a musical by an 18-year-old Stephen Sondheim surfaces.
Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted. "I knew the value of this right away — that this was the first original cast recording of a Sondheim show, " he chuckles. In fact, Horowitz says the mentor and teacher in Sondheim might even approve. Or were you just being kind? And I asked you when, and you said I would know.
Salsini knows Sondheim's later shows well, and hears in his work as an 18-year-old "hints of what is to come. " He was a collector himself and he appreciated collections of things, so from that perspective I think he would be at least moderately approving. "My experience with Sondheim is it all depends on his mood and when you approached him about things. © 2023 All rights reserved. Reading a bit of the lyric, Salsini nearly tears up. As he was straightening his CDs – which are organized mostly in chronological order — he noticed a gap, at the far left-hand side of the shelf. A waltz suggests the ones Sondheim would write in A Little Night Music. Written by: STEPHEN SONDHEIM. And the fact that it's happened now is a mitigating factor as Sondheim was often quoted as saying he didn't care what happened after his death. And it stayed there for who knows how long.
As for whether Sondheim's collegiate efforts strike listeners today as literally sophomoric, Horowitz is sanguine. Lyrics © CARLIN AMERICA INC. "I know how he felt about juvenilia because he got so upset when we published lyrics for his high school show, By George, " Salsini remembers. "They had to change scenery so they asked Sondheim to write a song that could be sung in front of the curtain.
With four performances in April and May, the show told the story of students trying to turn a college much like Williams into Party Central and featured 25 songs with music and lyrics written by Sondheim. A CD had slipped down, "literally fell through the cracks — and fell into the next shelf below, " Salsini recalls. He notes that a song called "Strength Through Sex" is reminiscent of "Gee, Officer Krupke" from West Side Story, for which Sondheim would write lyrics nine years later. All afternoon doing every little chore The thought of you stays bright Sometimes I stand in the middle of the floor Not going left - not going right I dim the lights and think about you Spend sleepless nights to think about you You said you loved me Or were you just being kind? It may not reach the exalted levels that his later work achieves, but I've never seen anything among this work that I would think he would be embarrassed by.
The art of making art. Logically, since it's a CD — and they weren't invented until 1982 — it's a copy, and he notes that there are likely other copies. How did it get recorded? A rare recording of a show Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim wrote and performed —in college — has been discovered hidden in a bookshelf in Milwaukee. The thought of you stays bright. Writer(s): Stephen Sondheim.
But with no known copies of the script or lyrics, that's been more or less it — until journalist Paul Salsini started reorganizing his cluttered office shelves. Use the citation below to add these lyrics to your bibliography: Style: MLA Chicago APA. With 18 major musicals to his credit — from the vaudeville-inspired romp A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, to the ghoulish Sweeney Todd, to the Pulitzer-winning Sunday in the Park with George — the mature Sondheim is the most respected and influential figure in American musical theater. "That sounds so poignant to me, " he says. "He thought it was valuable for people to see early work and mediocre work and realize that even one's heroes grew over time, " he says. Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted. So Sondheim's "juvenilia" in this case hasn't so much been missing, as hiding in plain sight. "I think if he were coming back from the ether, this would not be something he would get apoplectic about, " Horowitz. But of recordings available to the public, there's just the overture, performed by Sondheim and recorded at one of the Williams College performances, which has been included in anthologies. "In this song from Phinney's Rainbow I think he is expressing that for the first time. Horowitz hadn't heard that, but finds it plausible. You said "goodbye" when I said "hello".
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