"Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood. Do not let it grieve you, no one leaves for good." May his memory be a blessing
@Kristine_2022 жыл бұрын
Sutton Foster wrote, "There are giants...In the sky." Stephen certainly was a giant. I'd love to think that he's up in heaven right now writing another musical, and someday we'll join him and get to hear it.
@rollothecat20102 жыл бұрын
I am grateful we had Stephen Sondheim for as long as we did. I have always loved "Send in the Clowns", it is bittersweet like life itself.
@ThePlutarch442 жыл бұрын
I remember the original cast production. I was living in Montreal and decided to go to New York (by bus!) with a friend -- an overnight bus. I had received the tickets by mail, so we ventured down to see the show. I will always remember Glynis Johns who couldn't "sing" but could put across a song like "Send in the Clowns with great feeling. Sondheim wrote the song for her. The song and the show were (are still) great.
@kindnessfirst96705 ай бұрын
Pretty good for a song he wrote in one night.
@DMaggieMagee2 жыл бұрын
I walked out of the Broadway matinee of Company on Friday, basking in the glow of Sondheim's brilliance and the stunning cast who'd realized his vision and turned on my phone to learn that Sondheim had passed...a stunning feeling of loss. You can rest easy, Stephen, knowing you've made many things that count.😌
@NevermoreMadGirl2 жыл бұрын
I was devastated by the loss of this brilliant artist. Stephen Sondheim was and always will be an inspiration to me and countless others. This certainly was a hard pill to swallow, but may this creative genius forever rip and never be forgotten.
@joshuakohlmann97312 жыл бұрын
I personally believe that familiarity with, and appreciation of, Sondheim's work will grow rather than diminish in the years to come. I remember discovering Into The Woods at a time when no-one else here in England had ever heard of Sondheim and I have never looked back.
@annienoelle49642 жыл бұрын
“Thanks for everything we did, everything that's past, everything's that's over too fast. None of it was wasted, All of it will last.” Thank you Steve. You changed my life. You changed the world. We lost a true genius with a heart of gold. Nobody will ever compare. The world will miss you forever.
@JulienNeel2 жыл бұрын
Thank you Mr Sondheim for your work. You've been a major inspiration in my life. Rest in peace.
@johnkling66572 жыл бұрын
SWEENEY TODD is a masterpiece. When I first saw it, the last weekend of the original cast, I kept thinking "How could anything this gruesome be so funny?" It was fabulous! Thank you, Mr. Sondheim.
@willec71052 жыл бұрын
One of those rare, special, one-of-a-kind people from whom the human community can't get enough so every minute with him or his music is deliciously savored and valued like gold. People like Stephen are "sent" to us from another place to channel what we need to hear, see, feel and learn and that's called "talent" or a "gift." Thank you, Stephen for accepting your mission and agreeing to act as the human conduit for all that flowed from and through you.
@ChuckMusicDinoLover2 жыл бұрын
He had taken us on quite a ride, to places in musical theater we had not known were possible before. It was simply time for him to get off the ride. But for us, we will be riding on his musical journeys till the end of time. For me, his works will always be encouraging creativity, always be thought-provoking, and will always be pulling on our heart-strings. He makes us utilize all our senses. His creative mind seemed to have no boundaries. I think the very last line spoken in Sunday In The Park With George not only summed up what Georges Seurat believed, but was also Stephen's mantra as well... "White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities."
@jauipop2 жыл бұрын
I have lived and grown up with Sondheim's work. There are songs that have dotted different parts of my life... Will be forever grateful to him. Rest in Power... What a legacy.
@jackbarbey2 жыл бұрын
He considered "Somewhere" to be deeply embarrassing?? I think that's probably the best song in one of my favorite musicals.
@virghammer12 жыл бұрын
I know; right ?! 😏😟🤨❤️❤️❤️❤️
@kindnessfirst96705 ай бұрын
In 1986 Sondheim helped me get my first apartment in NYC. I was a young visual artist with little money and I was competing with several other people to sublet a rent controlled place. It came with a baby grand steinway piano in it so I asked the lease holder about it and he said he was a composer of musicals. Then he asked if I was a fan of musical theatre. I told him I wasn't much of a musicals fan in general but I just LOVED Sweeney Todd after discovering it two years earlier and was making my way through Sondheim's other work. He said I had EXCELLENT taste for one who didn't know much about musicals and that got me the apartment.
@Dengee2 жыл бұрын
Watching this made me cry and realize his music has been a wonderful part of my life for so long. Thank you Stephen. ✨💕🙏🏽💌❤️
@LC-le9ew2 жыл бұрын
This man can inspire anyone anywhere to try just a little bit harder everyday. And to know that he did a lot of work from his bed is somehow inspiring to me as well.
@virghammer12 жыл бұрын
YES! Perfectly said. ❤️❤️❤️❤️. Thank you FOREVERMORE for your GENEROUS, POWERFUL, ULTRA-TRANSCENDING WORK ETHIC, rapturously wonderful Stephen Sondheim!
@muffinamy832 жыл бұрын
Pacific Overtures has the most glorious songs. Just gorgeous writing. If you're unfamiliar with it, do check it out.
@mervyngreene66872 жыл бұрын
I agree 100%!
@SRLovesPandas12 жыл бұрын
"Somewhere in a Tree" is an underrated song of all his works
@katherinehughes72342 жыл бұрын
One of my favorites. Underrated!
@virghammer12 жыл бұрын
“Someone in a Tree” he always, apparently - You can go to KZbin and watch him saying that - said was his favorite song he wrote, also. 🙏🏼❤️❤️❤️❤️
@VatsugC2 жыл бұрын
You'll always be crowded with love and you'll always be there! Tears for you comes easy, R.I.P. Stephen Sondheim
@tremainejotham2972 жыл бұрын
Absolutely devastated that he's no longer here. Company and A Little Night Music were just two of my favourites from him. To be honest, always had a deep fondness for anything he did.
@13blackcatzzz2 жыл бұрын
Not a day goes by..........thank you S.
@m.c.master46222 жыл бұрын
Not a single day.
@crustyfroonchfroo85422 жыл бұрын
But he’ll always be part of our lives.
@kpire60662 жыл бұрын
Thanks for putting this together. Very well done. Great to see this so well put together. My friend Ricky Castillo introduced me to Sondheim's work. Such rich work but it's rare to be able to catch a Sondheim production in person. Catch one if and when you ever have a chance! So fun, so moving. Bye Steve! 😢
@Anna.Lippert2 жыл бұрын
Infinite gratitude for so many wonderful creations...
@thejoanamendes2 жыл бұрын
His work has inspired so many generations and it will continue to do it so 🍀 Sondheim will always be missed 🍀
@cabrown3082 жыл бұрын
He was brilliant! Saw Follies in NYC in early ‘70s and was transformed forever!!
@MissMiffed2 жыл бұрын
I miss him already 😞
@kpire6066 Жыл бұрын
I loved that interview. Thank you for putting that together. At this point, it's legacy. Well done. I'll have to check out Allegro and Saturday Night. He walked on the shoulders of giants and did well by them. I agree with his closing remarks. Gosh, if I have any chance of seeing a pro or local production, I will be there, pure joy. ❤
@mensabs2 жыл бұрын
A genuinely talented composer and lyricist!
@matthewschwartz66072 жыл бұрын
He was so talented . Rest In Peace.
@menassies32242 жыл бұрын
I hope his family is holding up okay
@briankatona2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing this! He will be greatly missed!
@Kristine_2022 жыл бұрын
"Songs like 'Somewhere,' that's deeply embarrassing." The world didn't deserve this man.
@WendyWatersctmmАй бұрын
No one is alone truly. ❤
@XevLexa2 жыл бұрын
I remember watching the musical comedy AbFunny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum in New York City starring Nathan Lane & Whoopi Goldberg. Had such a wonderful time!
@jessicaross72882 жыл бұрын
You should research your lies better before you tell them. Whoopi Goldberg took over the role of Pseudolus from Nathan Lane, so you wouldn't ever have seen them on stage together in Forum. Nice try though!
@XevLexa2 жыл бұрын
@@jessicaross7288 Do my research? I was there watching the show you silly
@bdub18632 жыл бұрын
I saw Ethel Merman and Bernadette Peters in Gypsy. Great show too! 🤥
@mister_vegas Жыл бұрын
It's important to remember that the phrase "everything's coming up roses" was Sondheim's creation. It wasn't like he took a popular phrase from the American lexicon and wrote a song around it. He made up that phrase, and NOW it's part of the lexicon.
@yellolab092 жыл бұрын
I'm struck with the impact that profound surrogate father relationship had on Sondheim.
@Chrisyt2722 жыл бұрын
Me too. It was truly a gift.
@john.premose Жыл бұрын
I always did think Oscar Hammerstein must have been a really good and wholesome guy because his lyrics show it.
@johncrawfordpiano2 жыл бұрын
Oscar Hammerstein's: "My advice would be to take the job" when Sondheim wasn't sure whether to get involved in the West Side Story project.... I suppose that this is advice that changed the course of music history, and of course assured Sondheim immortality, no matter what he did next.
@nicolewrytr2 жыл бұрын
Brillant talent!
@rosiequartzie22302 жыл бұрын
Te adoro, Anton...
@deerheart872 жыл бұрын
He was a great x
@jgrab12 жыл бұрын
The description says this was recorded in 2008 but in the piece itself they mention an award he got in 2010.
@virghammer12 жыл бұрын
Thank you for creating and posting this! I learned a few fascinating things. 💗 We will miss you forever. until the end of human creation, brilliant and ASTOUNDINGLY GENEROUS Stephen Sondheim! ⭐️ 🎵 ❤️💙💚 ♥️ THANK YOU for showing us the way and helping us feel -- SO MUCH - & Learn about Ourselves and Life. 🦅 🌲 - .. and Death. Beauty! & Truth. Ahhhhhhhh … Your Irreplaceably ravishing Music ! ❤️❤️❤️🙏🏼 ⭐️ Xo, VCH & Midlantic Theatre Co., Newark, NJ, USA
@kevinhogan78142 жыл бұрын
I'd be curious to understand how this became "never-before-seen" for 13 years.
@Theresawesome422 жыл бұрын
The Last Word series was to act as a sort of video obituary. The Times has interviewed numerous prominent people on the condition the footage would not be released until after their passing.
@jeanettesmith765Ай бұрын
He was very handsome in addition to his talent.
@javirios31072 жыл бұрын
I want to look exactly like him when I’m 80
@independentfilmchannel14762 жыл бұрын
I loved him just as any sensible musical theater enthusiast should. However, I never liked the way he repeatedly dismissed his extraordinary contribution to West Side Story, which I still consider the greatest musical on both stage and screen in theatrical history. (And I'm far from alone.) Unfortunately, Mr Sondheim was too much the perfectionist to recognize the power of this early achievement. In point of fact, its more blistering lyrics prefigured his revolutionary approach to the later innovative work for which he is now revered.
@m.c.master46222 жыл бұрын
"...its more blistering lyrics..." I know Stephen does not agree with you here. I defer to his assessment. How can we revere him and dismiss his judgement??
@independentfilmchannel14762 жыл бұрын
@@m.c.master4622 Two things can be true at the same time and I am certainly not dismissing his judgment. Even Sondheim did not reject the entirety of his work on West Side Story. "Something's Coming" e.g. he counted among his favorites. Listen to "Gee Officer Krupke" and "America" and you will hear early evidence of his intricately witty facility with words. That musical remains a classic; its continual revivals speak for themselves. Nothing anyone says, including the retrospective self-critique of Sondheim himself, can diminish that truth. It's not going to suddenly sound different to me because one of the men who wrote doesn't like it anymore. He was 26 at the time for crying out loud. That he managed to do it at all boggles the mind. I hope you can understand that all this is meant as the sincerest of compliments. What a freakin' genius. No one else will ever come close.
@alcat2000c8 ай бұрын
A genius and a great American.
@PhimbleG-d2 жыл бұрын
People thought SWEENEY TODD was serious? I don’t belong on this planet.
@madeleinemcgregor28552 жыл бұрын
What Hogwarts house would Stephen Soundheim be put in? I think it’s RavenClaw.
@katherinehughes72342 жыл бұрын
Our Shakespeare has died.
@dustinthepatriotjolley33322 жыл бұрын
RIP.
@WendyWatersctmmАй бұрын
❤
@jacobbeck53842 жыл бұрын
Sharp as a tack
@SuperRegency2 жыл бұрын
Sondheim had a hit with Small World from Gypsy. Sung by Johnny Mathis, it rose to second place in the 1960 hit parade.
@qwmx3 ай бұрын
I don't like his music either, but I do enjoy reading Sondheim lyrics.
@RickMartinYouTube2 жыл бұрын
national treasure - great life
@sushicourier2 жыл бұрын
Why are there all these interviews that are never seen publicly?
@j-art12072 жыл бұрын
He helped with Allegro?? That's my favorite Roger's and hammerstein musical now I know why 😂😂 4:51
@ClueSign2 жыл бұрын
He was just getting started.😓
@sushicourier2 жыл бұрын
"...then it's so easy to write!" Ha!! If you're a genius!!!😇🥰
@rayfridley66492 жыл бұрын
Was Sondheim also involved in West Side Story's film version?
@chineseviruszombie7732 жыл бұрын
Yes
@alextirrellRI2 жыл бұрын
He had been an active collaborator in pretty much every major production or film of his work, including revivals, and the just released new movie version of West Side Story. Steven Spielberg said Sondheim was at every recording session for the new movie and they became great friends.
@DrDrever2 жыл бұрын
And that's all, folks.
@ltkwok2 жыл бұрын
Sweeney Todd can live on for a long time…. Maybe even like Shakespeare.
@2Uglukraid2 жыл бұрын
Done and done and done.
@ziziroberts80412 жыл бұрын
The clowns are crying 💔
@GingerSnape462 жыл бұрын
I love Sweeney Todd.
@zachhoran2 жыл бұрын
Stephen Sondheim was a contestant on the November 26, 2021 episode of Celebrity Bucket Kickers.
@СТАЛИНИОСИФ-ь3ь2 жыл бұрын
At USSR, workers have proven that they can live without the rich. But mind you, not a single rich man has proved that he can live without workers...
@happyperformers87362 жыл бұрын
HOW Stephen Sondheim CHANGED MUSICAL THEATRE FOREVER kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpuwdIGunbehl5o
@SolaceEasy2 жыл бұрын
Doesn't play in Peoria these days.
@dekelpolak41902 жыл бұрын
There Is No Shortage of Energy; There Is Shortage of Normalcy Despite increased production of energy from renewable sources, and despite the slowdown in car manufacturing, oil prices are skyrocketing. Even though fewer power plants still burn coal, coal prices are skyrocketing, as well. Natural gas prices, too, are going through the roof, and energy demand seems to outpace supply in every country and in every form of energy. Have Earth’s energy sources dwindled so drastically in a matter of months? The answer is a resounding “No!” There is no shortage of energy; there is a serious shortage of normalcy in human relations. I hope the current crisis will put some sense into humanity’s insane consumption. The energy crunch indicates that we are over consuming. We are producing too much, throwing the excess production to the trash, polluting the ground, the air, and the water, and then we are complaining that we do not have enough. It is about as sane as killing one’s parents and then pleading for the court’s mercy because I’ve recently been orphaned. It is time we reconsider everything we produce-how we divide production, profits, and goods, which services are necessary and which are redundant, and most importantly, how we treat one another. The goal of this process should be clear to everyone: survival. There is no ulterior motive, no attempt to dominate or deprive anyone of power or wealth. It is simply that reality is forcing us to take all of humanity and the entire planet into consideration. If we don’t, our entire civilization will collapse like a deck of cards. Since we still do not understand it and insist on running things the way we have always been running them-through power games-I anticipate a very cold and gloomy winter for the northern hemisphere. The energy crunch will leave many in dark and cold houses; there will be no gas for cars, and renewable energy will not replace traditional sources since there will be little sun during the winter. I hope that at least, it will make us rethink our values. If it doesn’t, next summer will be even worse than the awful summer that just ended. I know that many people are counting on the promise of renewable energy to solve the energy problems of humanity. I think they are mistaken. There is plenty of energy, far more than we really need. We could cut emissions by at least half tomorrow. But the more we have, the hungrier we become, so our thirst for energy will never be satiated, and we will never stop exploiting the planet or each other until we reeducate ourselves and start being humane toward each other. We have been behaving like spoiled brats whose parents buy them whatever they want. Now, our parents have run out of money and our childhood is over. It is time for us to mature and conduct ourselves like responsible adults, caring for all of humanity the way a mother cares for her entire family. If we think like a family, we will achieve normalcy.
@LorasTyrell3542 жыл бұрын
Whose narrating this?
@robertrostad39302 жыл бұрын
No more wisdom from our friend and teacher.
@johnnyc.32612 жыл бұрын
Those eyebrows 🌾
@cudad74432 жыл бұрын
Jesus Christ called people everywhere to repent, therefore, if you confess with your lips the Lord Jesus and believe with all your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved and inherit the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal life. told other people how good he is, how he saves, heals and liberates and gives eternal life5456
@robertroberts79582 жыл бұрын
Wow this is the times lol
@robertroberts79582 жыл бұрын
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@susanalatorre33732 жыл бұрын
Kindness of strangets
@timlynch57102 ай бұрын
So he blew Lenny.
@nardo2182 жыл бұрын
you remembered him but not his past partner or current widower? so you remembered a censored version of him. nice.
@dsilverleaf46682 жыл бұрын
Who?
@joshuakohlmann97312 жыл бұрын
Why say that? Look him up if you don't know who he is.
@sarahthompson80982 жыл бұрын
This entire video is here to educate you, fortunately.