Gerald896
New member
The composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who reinvented musical theatre for modern times, has died at the age of 91. Always drawn to unusual and varied subjects – a psychopathic barber, a 19th-century French painter, a bachelor scared of commitment, a reunion of retired chorus girls, to name just a few – Sondheim adapted his musical language accordingly. He reinforced the Viennese tone of A Little Night Music (1973), for example, by writing every number in 3/4 time; and in Sunday in the Park with George (1984), he transformed pointillism in art into pointillism in music.