Stephen Sondheim famously began his career as lyricist for West Side Story, in collaboration with Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins. He went on to compose the incomparable music of A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Follies, Company, and Sweeney Todd.
Stephen Sondheim won a record eight Tony awards, eight GRAMMYs, a Pulitzer Prize, and an Academy Award. A preeminent Broadway composer and lyricist, Sondheim famously began his career as lyricist for West Side Story, in a memorable collection with Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins. He went on to compose the incomparable music of A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Follies, Company, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
David Charles Abell, who premiered a new Sweeney Todd in Zurich in 2019, brings the best of Sondheim in a celebration of the great man’s career. The program features student soloists from the School District of Philadelphia’s All City Choir.