A music library brought Stephen Sondheim to tears and testified to his life

Mark Horowitz, Stephen Sondheim is very proud to cry.

Proudly, that in doing so, he convinced the legend of the late Music Theater, Washington, DC, DC demonstration libraries, DC, DC, DC, and more of the DC and more.

“He is the reason I entered this profession, so this is a dream come true,” Horowitz, head music specialist in the library Quite The host Nile Koksal. “It’s excited to be able to affect him in this way and was pleasing.”

The library announced this week that on July 1 has received more than 5,000 elements from the Sondheim collection, which will be available for the public.

The American composer and lyrics are highly valued as one of the most influential figures in the history of the theater history, Died in 2021and left his collection to the library in his will.

Play a long game

Horowitz invited him to the Library of SondheIIM in 1993, to surprise him in person invited to the library to look at the Ephemera collection.

Horowitz – Author About Sondheim Music: Small details and great decisions The editor for the Sondheim review knew the interests and inspirations of Sondheim. The personalized tour includes original manuscripts from Bela Bartók, Sergey Rachmaninoff, Igor Rachmaninoff, Igor Stravinsky and Johannes Brahms.

However, the American composer George Gershwin manuscript for the 1935 opera New and Bess Sondeim’s tears were moved, Horowitz said.

“It was really the thing that moves the most emotionally for him,” said Horowitz. “He was excited to cry. If you cry, you won the game.”

After this meeting, Horowitz says Sondheim changed its will to release his documents to the library. The couple were in contact with years and Horowitz was held Interviews with a legendary composer In 1997 in the house in New York.

Marginalia and unknown compositions

In a press settingThe head of the library’s music department called Susan Vita “will glorify the inheritance of Sonheimi” “Treasurer, an additional” collection.

Never initially took off the projects of songs that do not exercise, as well as a spiral music book Notes and ideas Documenting some music efforts while a student in Williams College.

Horowitz also has compositions that he knows – and it was very pretty that he knew all.

Scratched on the edges in their words A little priest From the music of 1979 Sweeney Todd Horowitz, the fate of the hero’s victims of the hero, counted 158 samples of different types, which could cook meat pyroughs. The vast majority has never done for the final cut

“He was very good at killing his lovers,” Horowitz said. “Never fell in love, I think it’s better for any reason to make it better than anything.”

Horowitz says it is a miracle that has ever paved the library. In 1995, a fire broke out in the office where Sondheim was protected.

“I would see some manuscripts before the fire and then if you remove the manuscripts from this cardboard boxes, there are songs that are situated in situations sitting,” Horowitz said.

Outside of small quantities of smoke around the edges, the documents survived mainly without injury.

“You had paper on the cardboard on the wooden shelves.

“I persuade me to higher power.”

‘Life Changing’ music

Sondheim’s case, Horowitz says that there was many things, including music transformative power.

“It was not just fun; it was a way of life changing and lifestyle and lifestyle, in a way I didn’t think I live in other music.”

The words often think Advance In the 1984s Sunday in the park with George: “I chose and my world was shaken / so what’s wronged? / The choice could be wrong.

“I know the people who waived work, who were married, married, divorced after listening to this. He gave courage to make life choices,” Horowitz said. “This is extraordinary.”

Horowitz says that the academics, who studied the mentacy of the composer in the Sondheim’s collection, be kidnapped by academics.

“But I think my secret request is that young composers will be young composers who want to write a song from the master,” he said.

“I hope that the arrival of the authors of this song will affect the generations.”