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...might be humming something in class somewhere, and someone hears me and they know the song, and I already go, ‘they’re Christian. They have a Christian background,’” she says...
...seventh year, the Junior Eurovision Song Contest is a miniaturized version of Eurovision, the massively popular, continent-wide singing competition that has launched the careers of performers like Celine Dion, Julio Iglesias and ABBA. Every year, some 14,000 children aged 10 to 15 compete for a chance to represent their country in the final - and become the next Beyoncé. But while there is real singing talent on display, the competition is also a reminder - doused in glitter - of the everyday struggles of growing up. "The kids have to write their own lyrics, so it offers a really good...
...notoriously bloody tale about cannibalism, “Sweeney Todd” ran to overwhelming success in the United States, where it first opened. “I used to watch the audience’s faces as they were watching Sweeney Todd singing this lovely little love song and slitting people’s throats,” Sondheim said. “They were mesmerized. They weren’t turned off. They were turned...
Even through the challenges brought on by negative reviews, Sondheim has maintained his love of the creative process. In “Sunday in the Park with George,” the song “Finishing the Hat” is his ode to the delight of creation; he writes, “However you live / there’s a part of you always standing by / mapping out the sky / finishing a hat... Look, I made a hat / where there never...
...such a privilege to be a creative artist and to get yourself into a country that not many people are able to get into,” Sondheim said, referring to the creative domain exclusive to artists. “I wanted the song to show the vulnerability of someone who is making his own world...