I've revered Sondheim for decades!! Recently, I've been watching and listening to alot of his interviews. Now i find him extreamly accessable and down to EARTH!! RIP Steve! What a nice guy!! Thanks for everything!! 😇🎶🎹🎙😃
How incredibly wonderful to come across this post nearly three decades after it was recorded; many heartfelt thanks, Mr. Forrest! Besides being very enjoyable to listen to the performances of the songs, what's extraordinarily exceptional about this is Mr. Sondheim's attitude during the interview. To wit, over the decades he's been interviewed, albeit effectively, by musical and/or cultural scholars, almost inevitably male. Here, on this rarest of occasions, his interviewer is one, a female, and two, a gifted musician in her own rite. And as such, his tone is uncharacteristically animated, consciously charming, and even flirtatious!! In the multitude of interviews I've seen/heard over the years, he's never sounded this playful. What fun for us all.
Marian did a great job interpreting Stephen's music - I think it surprised him about his own versatility. Thanks for this and Stephen - sleep a lifetime, you gave us all a great gift.
4:26 I Wish I Could Forget You (Passion) 13:10 All the Things You Are (by Hammerstein/Kern) 19:19 Anyone Can Whistle (Anyone Can Whistle) 24:35 Send in the Clowns (A Little Night Music) 33:48 Pretty Women (Sweeney Todd) 40:51 Losing My Mind (Follies) 48:52 Not a Day Goes By (Merrily We Roll Along) 54:20 Old Friends (Merrily We Roll Along)
Thank you. I admire people who can sing because I am always off pitch. I am not afraid now after listening to Stephen Sondheim's singing. If he feels so comfortable doing it, why shouldn't I?
It's ironic to me that some of the very best song composers are really not very good singers, slightly off pitch. Burt Bacharach and Brazil's Tom Jobim come to mind.
@@mikedowd66Not at all ironic. Composition is primarily an act of the creative mind and mostly unrelated to the skill of performing. Similar to a playwright need not be a good actor.
Reminds me a bit of Bernstein's jealousy of Irving Berlin. Whereas Bernstein knew more about music and music theory than most people, Berlin could not read music and could only play the white keys, even had a piano made so he could pull a crank to shift the white keys to a minor key. Yet Bernstein had a hard time composing or writing songs while Berlin wrote 400+ songs of which 100 were hits.
This is the most beautiful conversation but unfortunately it was painful to watch because of the myriad of advertisments. There were just SO MANY of them!! ...and ALL placed perfectly at the end of every song that Marion played, just before the very last notes thereby completely demolishing the beautiful atmosphere that she'd created. My Adblock stopped working on TH-cam. I know that a lot of TH-cam channels need the ads in order to create revenue & earn a living, I get it but this is just ridiculous. Can the ads at least be placed at a different time, not right at the end of every song that Marion played? Or 1 ad right at the beginning & 1 right at the end - I mean, they were just so numerous throughout the whole interview, it was more ads than interview! Just painful ! I have about 8 minutes left to watch & I just can't do it, I spend more time clicking on "Skip" ad than actually listening to the video. Sad, because it's worth listening to.
I've revered Sondheim for decades!! Recently, I've been watching and listening to alot of his interviews. Now i find him extreamly accessable and down to EARTH!! RIP Steve! What a nice guy!! Thanks for everything!! 😇🎶🎹🎙😃
What a gorgeous, sensitive rendition of "Anyone Can Whistle" MM plays!
This is precious! Thank you, Stephen and Marian, thank you for sharing your genius with us. Rest in peace!!!
I could listen to this all day
How incredibly wonderful to come across this post nearly three decades after it was recorded; many heartfelt thanks, Mr. Forrest! Besides being very enjoyable to listen to the performances of the songs, what's extraordinarily exceptional about this is Mr. Sondheim's attitude during the interview. To wit, over the decades he's been interviewed, albeit effectively, by musical and/or cultural scholars, almost inevitably male. Here, on this rarest of occasions, his interviewer is one, a female, and two, a gifted musician in her own rite. And as such, his tone is uncharacteristically animated, consciously charming, and even flirtatious!! In the multitude of interviews I've seen/heard over the years, he's never sounded this playful. What fun for us all.
Marian was a wonderful player. Expressive touch and evocative harmonic choices. She was a treasure.
I can't thank you enough for posting this William!! 🎙🎶🎤😍
Two treasures. Just fantastic, really.
Really marvelous and special
thank you William Forrest, great post !!!!
Marian did a great job interpreting Stephen's music - I think it surprised him about his own versatility. Thanks for this and Stephen - sleep a lifetime, you gave us all a great gift.
Wonderful!!!! 💕✨
4:26 I Wish I Could Forget You (Passion)
13:10 All the Things You Are (by Hammerstein/Kern)
19:19 Anyone Can Whistle (Anyone Can Whistle)
24:35 Send in the Clowns (A Little Night Music)
33:48 Pretty Women (Sweeney Todd)
40:51 Losing My Mind (Follies)
48:52 Not a Day Goes By (Merrily We Roll Along)
54:20 Old Friends (Merrily We Roll Along)
Thank you. I admire people who can sing because I am always off pitch. I am not afraid now after listening to Stephen Sondheim's singing. If he feels so comfortable doing it, why shouldn't I?
It's ironic to me that some of the very best song composers are really not very good singers, slightly off pitch. Burt Bacharach and Brazil's Tom Jobim come to mind.
@@mikedowd66Not at all ironic. Composition is primarily an act of the creative mind and mostly unrelated to the skill of performing. Similar to a playwright need not be a good actor.
Genius
Reminds me a bit of Bernstein's jealousy of Irving Berlin. Whereas Bernstein knew more about music and music theory than most people, Berlin could not read music and could only play the white keys, even had a piano made so he could pull a crank to shift the white keys to a minor key. Yet Bernstein had a hard time composing or writing songs while Berlin wrote 400+ songs of which 100 were hits.
This is the most beautiful conversation but unfortunately it was painful to watch because of the myriad of advertisments. There were just SO MANY of them!! ...and ALL placed perfectly at the end of every song that Marion played, just before the very last notes thereby completely demolishing the beautiful atmosphere that she'd created. My Adblock stopped working on TH-cam. I know that a lot of TH-cam channels need the ads in order to create revenue & earn a living, I get it but this is just ridiculous.
Can the ads at least be placed at a different time, not right at the end of every song that Marion played?
Or 1 ad right at the beginning & 1 right at the end - I mean, they were just so numerous throughout the whole interview, it was more ads than interview!
Just painful !
I have about 8 minutes left to watch & I just can't do it, I spend more time clicking on "Skip" ad than actually listening to the video. Sad, because it's worth listening to.
I don't have any control over the ads and I don't make any money from my channel.
I don't know when you listened to this, but I just listened to it (11/27/23) and there are NO ads at all.
this woman puts so many extra notes in a sing that she ruins the melody to me
puppylove, it's called jazz.
yeah, how dare they jazz it up on a channel called "piano jazz". unacceptable!!!!!
Sounds like lounge piano instead of jazz.
Sounds like lounge piano not jazz