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@FantasiaMagia It may be my favorite single Sondheim song, and has made me cry more times than I can remember. The lyrics (and the music) are profoundly beautiful and wise, and mean something new to me each time. Then again, this entire show reduces me to a puddle of tears every time; for me, it ...

Robin, shut up.

@guirlandes3John Bell Young!

You may not remember, but we met a little over ten years ago at Tali Makell's apartment in Brooklyn, where I was staying while I auditioned for school in New York.. I played the Chopin b minor Scherzo for you, and you were kind enough to give me feedback (I remember ...

This is actually not the Israel Philharmonic, but the New York pick-up orchestra from the Deutsche Grammophon recording of the show.

For the record, 3:41-3:51 is actually Gilbert doing his Gary impression, but it's still great!

@JShex No, don't think there's any triplet figure. Seems as though he's playing what is a harp figure on the original recording. The harp seems to only have straight quarter notes at that moment. If the pianist seems slightly rocky in his playing at that spot, just look at the video and you'll no...

The playing of the Vienna Philharmonic is truly astonishing.

@JJLaPonselle Absolutely. The most expressive thing in music is silence, particularly the silence before and after the music exists. At La Scala, if you clap before the music is completely done, you are violently shooshed by the rest of the audience. Hope you're doing well, Lalonde!

@sondheimisGAWD Which is the inverse parallel of Henrik's "Though I've been born, I've never been..." in 'Later'. Genius, indeed.

Just for the record, Stephen Sondheim did not write the libretto of "West Side Story". Arthur Laurents wrote the libretto. Sondheim wrote the lyrics.

The lyric is actually "But you're still somehow part of my life", not "But you're still somehow a part of my life".

@oneXlastXkiss1001 It goes up to high G's (for tenor and sopranos, respectively) at two climactic spots: 1:35 ('wa-TER'), and 2:54 (the repeated 'sun-DAY's).

Spend sleepless nights, TO (not 'and') think about you. It's the key lyric of the entire song. Other than that, this is the greatest version of this song that has ever been recorded.

@ndtaam I am an enormous admirer of Sondheim, but only recently came to know this show through the original cast recording. What has leapt out at me, beyond the greatness of Sondheim's lyrics and music, is how fantastic your singing is. I work as a coach with classical singers, and I have been te...

@FlamingRose11 Yes, it is Victor Garber as Anthony bursting in.

Haha! "LIES in ashes", not "lays!"

@muslit I can accept that he pushes too hard for your taste. My original responses were to those who claimed that the conductor had no idea what he was doing. Needless to say, these people have probably never cracked a score of this opera. My point is that the essential parameters of Strauss' tem...