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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 2: Follies, A Little Night Music and Pacific Overtures

Stephen Sondheim (1930-)

Episode 2

Episode 2: Follies, A Little Night Music and Pacific Overtures

Follies, A Little Night Music and Pacific Overtures

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Stephen Sondheim (1930-), Follies, A Little Night Music and Pacific Overtures

Three Sondheim musicals: one without a plot, one in waltz time and one based on kabuki.

Donald Macleod explores the music of composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, focusing on three musicals: one without a plot, one in waltz time and one based on kabuki.

Continuing our series in which Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim talks to Donald Macleod. This programme features three shows that in typical Sondheim fashion expanded the notion of what the musical could be, with razor-sharp language and cracking tunes to boot: Follies, in which a reunion of Ziegfield-style Follies stars in a derelict theatre becomes a metaphor for the death of the American dream; A Little Night Music, a musical about relationships written almost entirely in waltz-time, that spawned Sondheim's most famous song, 'Send in the Clowns'; and Pacific Overtures, a 'kabuki musical' with an all-Japanese cast - an exploration of the 19th-century westernization of Japan, seen from the Japanese perspective.

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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