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Look, I Made a Hat de Stephen Sondheim

Look, I Made a Hat

Autor Stephen Sondheim
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 noi 2011

În calitate de critici dedicați fenomenului teatral, considerăm Look, I Made a Hat mai mult decât o simplă antologie; este o fereastră deschisă spre procesul laborios de arhitectură a cuvântului. Stephen Sondheim revine cu al doilea volum al versurilor sale adnotate, preluând firul narativ de unde l-a lăsat în celebrul Finishing the Hat. Dacă primul volum punea bazele geniului său, această ediție publicată de Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group explorează maturitatea artistică, oferind o perspectivă tactilă asupra modului în care ideile brute se transformă în partituri nemuritoare. Apreciem în mod deosebit structura riguroasă a cărții, care ghidează cititorul prin marile succese premiate cu Pulitzer, precum Sunday in the Park with George, dar și prin labirintul creațiilor mai puțin cunoscute. Autorul nu se sfiește să dissece eșecurile sau proiectele nefinalizate, oferind o lecție de onestitate intelectuală. Pe raftul de artă, alături de Sondheim on Music, acest album se distinge prin bogăția materialului vizual — cele 195 de fotografii și reproduceri ale manuscriselor permit privitorului să simtă textura procesului creativ, dincolo de textul tipărit. Spre deosebire de Company: The Complete Revised Book and Lyrics, care se concentrează pe o singură producție, acest volum hardback de 480 de pagini are o anvergură enciclopedică. Secțiunile dedicate televiziunii și filmului dezvăluie fațete surprinzătoare ale operei sale, în timp ce anexele ce cuprind discografia selectivă și indexul cântecelor transformă volumul într-un instrument de referință esențial. Tonul lui Sondheim este cel al unui mentor generos, alternând între anecdote savuroase despre colaboratori și analize tehnice stricte ale rimei și ritmului.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780307593412
ISBN-10: 030759341X
Pagini: 480
Ilustrații: 195 PHOTOS/ILL IN TEXT
Dimensiuni: 217 x 293 x 33 mm
Greutate: 1.48 kg
Editura: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui pasionat de teatru muzical care dorește să înțeleagă mecanismele din spatele scenei. Cititorul câștigă acces la mintea unui compozitor care a definit secolul XX, primind sfaturi concrete despre scrierea de cântece și istoria teatrului. Este o piesă de colecție ce oferă context istoric și vizual pentru capodopere precum Into the Woods sau Assassins, fiind un ghid indispensabil pentru înțelegerea procesului creativ autentic.

Despre autor

Stephen Sondheim a fost o figură centrală a teatrului muzical american, compozițiile și versurile sale fiind recompensate cu un Premiu Pulitzer, un Oscar și numeroase premii Tony. Cariera sa prodigioasă include titluri fundamentale precum Company, Sweeney Todd și Follies, fiind totodată textierul celebrelor West Side Story și Gypsy. Prin lucrările sale, Sondheim a transformat structura și sunetul musicalului modern, fiind considerat un mentor pentru generații de artiști. Această a doua parte a memoriilor sale lirice consolidează moștenirea unui artist care a explorat profunzimea condiției umane prin muzică și cuvânt.

Notă biografică

Stephen Sondheim has written award-winning music and lyrics for theater, film and television. He is also the coauthor of the film The Last of Sheila and the play Getting Away with Murder. Sondheim is on the council of the Dramatists Guild of America, having served as its president from 1973 to 1981. He lives in New York City.

Descriere scurtă

After his acclaimed and best-selling Finishing the Hat (named one of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2010), Stephen Sondheim returns with the second volume of his collected lyrics, Look, I Made a Hat, giving us another remarkable glimpse into the brilliant mind of this living legend, and his life’s work.
 
Picking up where he left off in Finishing the Hat, Sondheim gives us all the lyrics, along with excluded songs and early drafts, of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Assassins and Passion. Here, too, is an in-depth look at the evolution of Wise Guys, which subsequently was transformed into Bounce and eventually became Road Show. Sondheim takes us through his contributions to both television and film, some of which may surprise you, and covers plenty of never-before-seen material from unproduced projects as well. There are abundant anecdotes about his many collaborations, and readers are treated to rare personal material in this volume, as Sondheim includes songs culled from commissions, parodies and personal special occasions over the years—such as a hilarious song for Leonard Bernstein’s seventieth birthday. As he did in the previous volume, Sondheim richly annotates his lyrics with invaluable advice on songwriting, discussions of theater history and the state of the industry today, and exacting dissections of his work, both the successes and the failures.
 
Filled with even more behind-the-scenes photographs and illustrations from Sondheim’s original manuscripts, Look, I Made a Hat is fascinating, devourable and essential reading for any fan of the theater or this great man’s work.

Recenzii

“Sondheim is a national treasure, a giant in the world of musical theater who changed the structure and sound of the form in 20th-century masterpieces. Speaking of heaven, though, here's Look, I Made a Hat, the second part of Sondheim's two-volume collection of lyrics, this one spanning 1981-2011, with additional bits and pieces. Talmudically thorough and devilishly diverting with what the author refers to as ‘attendant comments, amplifications, dogmas, harangues, digressions, anecdotes, and miscellany,’ the book is divine. It's also even more magnanimously authoritative than the first book. The handsomely designed book, like the first volume, contains illuminating reproductions of pages from the author's beloved legal pads on which he works out rhyme schemes, as well as annotated scripts and pages of musical notations. And the second volume is brimming — a word Sondheim would probably dismiss as ‘infelicitous’ — with precise, vigorous, instructive, sharp-tongued, and often very funny comments. Look, I Made a Hat, together with Finishing the Hat, makes an enormously satisfying journal by one of the great theatrical minds of our time, a guide and touchstone for who knows how many future great theatrical minds. A” —Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
 
“While the book technically covers Mr. Sondheim’s output from 1981 to the present, aficionados will delight in all the bits and bobs from early in his career that Mr. Sondheim didn’t make room for in the first volume . . . The extensive miscellany also includes a drawerful of lyrics Mr. Sondheim wrote as birthday gifts for friends like Harold Prince, Mary Rodgers and Leonard Bernstein. One of the choicest pleasures of the first volume was in Mr. Sondheim’s sharp-minded analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of musical theater lyricists from the past. He’s covered most of that territory already, so the new book features essays on ‘Awards and Their Uselessness’ and ‘Critics and Their Uses’ — savory reading.” —Charles Isherwood, New York Times

Descriere

Sondheim returns with the second volume of his collected lyrics, giving us another remarkable glimpse into his life's work--and into his life. He richly annotates his lyrics with personal and theater history, discussions of his collaborations, and exacting, charming dissections of his work--both the successes and the failures. (Music)

Cuprins

Note to the Reader 
Cast of Characters 
Preface 
Reintroduction 

1. Sunday in the Park with George 
2. Into the Woods 
3. Assassins 
4. Passion 
5. Wise Guys/Bounce/Road Show: A Saga in Four Acts
6. Other Musicals 
7. Movies 
8. Television 
9. Commissions, Occasions, Beginnings 

Epilogue
Acknowledgments 

Appendix A: Oversights 
Appendix B: Original Productions 
Appendix C: Selected Discography 

Index of Songs 
Subject Index