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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Stephen Sondheim (1930-)

Composer of the Week: Stephen Sondheim (1930-): Episode 5: Passion, The Frogs and Road Show

Stephen Sondheim (1930-)

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Episode 5: Passion, The Frogs and Road Show

Passion, The Frogs and Road Show

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Stephen Sondheim (1930-), Passion, The Frogs and Road Show

Stephen Sondheim joins Donald Macleod to focus on Passion, The Frogs and Road Show.

Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim joins Donald Macleod to focus on three of his stage works - Passion, The Frogs and Road Show.

Concluding our series in which Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim talks to Donald Macleod. In the final programme, Passion, a kind of reversal of the Beauty and the Beast myth, which Sondheim has described as "one long rhapsody . a straightforward, non-ironic love story"; The Frogs, a contemporary take on Aristophanes originally staged in the swimming pool at Yale University (with Meryl Streep and Sigourney Weaver in the chorus line); and Road Show, a musical about the Mizner brothers which proves the old adage that "musicals aren't written, they're re-written" - it's currently in its fourth incarnation.

Produced by Chris Barstow.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim joins Donald Macleod to discuss his life and work

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