Liaisons - Re-imagining Sondheim from the Piano

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Liaisons - Re-imagining Sondheim from the Piano Details

(Piano Solo Songbook). 37 contemporary composers chose a song by Stephen Sondheim and re-imagined it as a solo piano piece. Contents below: Akiho: Into the Woods (Act I Opening Into the Woods ) Bates: Very Put Together ("Putting it Together" Sunday in the Park with George ) Beglarian: Perpetual Happiness ("Happiness" Passion ) Bermel: Sorry/Grateful ("Sorry-Grateful" Company ) Bischoff: The Ballad of Guiteau ("The Ballad of Guiteau" Assassins ) Bolcom: A Little Night Fughetta ("Anyone Can Whistle" Anyone Can Whistle and "Send in the Clowns" A Little Night Music ) Brown: Birds of Victorian England ("Green Finch and Linnet Bird" Sweeney Todd ) Bunch: The Demon Barber ("The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" Sweeney Todd ) Childs: Now ("Now," "Later" and "Soon" A Little Night Music ) Daugherty: Everybody's Got the Right ("Everybody's Got the Right" Assassins ) de Mare: Sunday in the Park - Passages ( Sunday in the Park with George ) Golub: A Child of Children and Art ("Children and Art" Sunday in the Park with George ) Gordon: Every Day a Little Death ("Every Day a Little Death" A Little Night Music ) Gosfield: A Bowler Hat ("A Bowler Hat" Pacific Overtures ) Heggie: I'm Excited. No, You're Not. ("A Weekend in the Country" A Little Night Music ) Hersch: No One Is Alone ("No One Is Alone" Into the Woods ) Iverson: Send in the Clowns ("Send in the Clowns" A Little Night Music ) Kahane: Being Alive ("Being Alive" Company ) Kline: Paraphrase (Someone in a Tree) ("Someone in a Tree" Pacific Overtures ) Leon: going . . . gone ("Good Thing Going" Merrily We Roll Along ) Lorenz: The Worst Empanadas in London ("The Worst Pies in London" and "A Little Priest" Sweeney Todd ) Marsalis: That Old Piano Roll ("That Old Piano Roll" Follies ) Moravec: I Think About You ("Losing My Mind" Follies ) Muhly: Color and Light ("Color and Light" Sunday in the Park with George ) Musto: Epiphany ( Sweeney Todd ) Newman: Not While I'm Around ("Not While I'm Around" Sweeney Todd ) Rakowski: The Ladies Who Lunch ("The Ladies Who Lunch" Company ) Reich: Finishing the Hat - 2 Pianos ("Finishing the Hat" Sunday in the Park with George ) Rockwell: You Could Drive a Person Crazy ("You Could Drive a Person Crazy" Company ) Roumain: Another Hundred People ("Another Hundred People" Company ) Rzewski: I'm Still Here ("I'm Still Here" Follies ) Sharman: Notes on "Beautiful" ("Beautiful" Sunday in the Park with George ) Sheik: Johanna in Space ("Johanna" Sweeney Todd ) Shire: Love Is in the Air ("Love Is in The Air" A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ) Speach: In and Out of Love ("Liaisons" and "Send in the Clowns" A Little Night Music ) Turnage: Pretty Women ("Pretty Women" Sweeney Todd ) Vigeland: Merrily We Roll Along ("Merrily We Roll Along" and "The Hills of Tomorrow" Merrily We Roll Along )