Word: ear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Issue" in a dentist's office last month. For memory isn't something that can be served up at the enterprising whim of some features editor or film producer; it's an ephemeral commodity. A dozen times a day, if you should be so lucky, memory will brush your ear or dance before your eye. But you can never quite catch up with it or hope to track it down. You are aware of living a life that has a certain depth in the evasive dimension of time, but you're crazy if you try to be precisely sure...
...last year's musical hit Company, Composer Sondheim seemed cloned from Lyricist Sondheim. Indeed, the score packed so many syllables and notes into each bar that it gave the sensation of a double-crostic for the ear. As Pianist Artur Rubinstein observed: "A most brilliant score. I couldn't hear all the words, but then I don't hear all the words at the opera, either...
...antique dealer or the rock group. In style and substance it can be as flexible as a film, as immediate as a street scene. Lyrics need not be laundry lists; melody need not be cacophony or syrup. Sondheim's experiments with sonority may sound tentative to the trained ear, but they are bold charts for himself?and for future composers as well. And his words demonstrate that the great tradition of Broadway songwriting, from Berlin through Porter and Hammerstein, is still alive...
...Joey, the line in Take Him: "I know a movie executive/ Who's twice as bright." It's a good joke, but you don't misaccent a word if you want to write a good lyric. Technically it's deficient and to my ear unprofessional...
...conciseness, how much is packed into it; it's important to be able to read and reread it at your own speed. Lyrics exist in time, second to second to second. Therefore lyrics always have to be underwritten. You cannot expect an audience to catch more than the ear is able to catch at the tempo and richness of the music. The perfect example of this is Oh, What a Beautiful Morniri, the first part of which I'd be embarrassed to put down on paper. I mean, you just don't put down