Sondheim teaches Send In The Clowns

...my God, Sondheim is fucking brilliant. I can't believe I missed the chance to see him speak.

That is by far the luckiest girl in the world. If I could work on a song with Stephen Sondheim I would probably die of happiness.

Sondheim ' mucis is wonderful and probably not always as easy digestable as ALW's etc. but I still prefer him

she did it beautifuly, does anybody know her name?? is she a professional singer in the present?

Hey there, anyone knows what has become of this girl. She seemed very evenly tempered , quite beautiful though beeing at a rather young age. Think there's a lot of stage potential in that.

I agree. Poise. Musical tone. Natural face. Grace....indeed.

Jaye Griffiths! She's fab

I disagree. I feel his melodies are just as piercing as his lyrics...just in a more indirect fashion.

It's true. Listen to Paul McCartney's melodies. Burt Bacharach, Richard Rodgers (until after Oscar Hammerstein passed,) Irving Berlin. Barry Gibb. Cole Porter (who wrote BOTH great lyrics and melodies,) John Williams, Stevie Wonder, Lindsey Buckingham, John Lennon (towards about the first half of The Beatles,) I'm a big fan of Stephen's, but there's no doubt about it; his melodies suck black dick. They're terrible.

Yeah. I understand where you are coming from. He definetely is not as melodic as the composers you mentioned above.  But I wouldn't go as far as to say his melodies are terrible. Look at Bach who wrote in the same mechanical fashion as Sondheim. His music has survived 300 years of constantly changing trends and now his songs are timeless. I definetely see where you are coming from though...