Stephen Sondheim, the renowned composer of"Into the Woods,""Sweeney Todd,""Gypsy,""Sunday in the Park with George" and other essential works of musical theater, died early Friday morning at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut, according to the New York Times. He was 91.
Over the course of his career, he won an Oscar, a Pulitzer, eight Grammy Awards, eight Tony Awards, a Kennedy Center honor and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Stephen Sondheim Theater in Manhattan's Theater District is named for him. Sondheim was particularly good at expressing romantic longing and loss. Songs such as"Send in the Clowns" ,"Losing My Mind" and"Somewhere" are heartbreaking in their emotion.
Thanks to the tutelage of a friend's father -- lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II of the famed theatrical team Rodgers and Hammerstein -- Sondheim, already a musical prodigy, received a master class in play writing. Next came 1959's"Gypsy," the story of Gypsy Rose Lee and her mother, Rose, for which Sondheim worked with composer Jule Styne, and 1962's"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," for which Sondheim wrote both music and lyrics.
Though his early works, such as"West Side Story" and"Gypsy," were made into movies, his post-1970 work generally resisted the transition.
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