WHEN I START TO WORK ON MOZART
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It Goes With the Harmony
Well, maybe we wouldn't sound so bad if some people didn't try to play with big, meaty claws.
“Momma / please take our advice / we aren’t the Lunts / I’m not Fanny Brice / Momma, we’ll buy you the rice / if only this once you wouldn’t think twice.”
It’s so complicated but effortless. Look at all the inner rhymes there—“once” and “Lunts,” and all the “ice”s, and the wordplay of “once … twice,” you have to wonder what comes first. As a lyricist, I know you often start with the last line and work backward. And the playfulness of the Jule Styne music, a melodic waltz, is perfectly matched.
It’s so complicated but effortless. Look at all the inner rhymes there—“once” and “Lunts,” and all the “ice”s, and the wordplay of “once … twice,” you have to wonder what comes first. As a lyricist, I know you often start with the last line and work backward. And the playfulness of the Jule Styne music, a melodic waltz, is perfectly matched.
Marc Shaiman on why “If Momma Was Married” is a perfect song, as told to Rebecca Milzoff in New York Magazine. (via fuckyeahstephensondheim)
(Source: New York Magazine, via fuckyeahstephensondheim)
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seriously, just listen to this.
I probably would have thrown my whole wallet in his case…
fucking amazing
tears in my eyes
This literally blew my mind to pieces.
this guy’s a champ. this kind of stuff makes me happy.
holy fuck.
This guy needs to be famous.
literally the coolest thing that I have ever seen
Holy shit!!! What a freaking legend!!! I’m amazed!!!
I have listen to this about 50 times now. How do I get this on my ipod?
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Agent Coulson’s Day Off by Matt Kaufenberg / Blog
Want a whole series of these, please.
(via 13th-agent)
People say, ‘Oh, Mr. Sendak. I wish I were in touch with my childhood self, like you!’ As if it were all quaint and succulent, like Peter Pan. Childhood is cannibals and psychotic vomiting in your mouth! I say, ‘You are in touch, lady—you’re mean to your kids, you treat your husband like shit, you lie, you’re selfish… That is your childhood self!
Maurice Sendak, on what childhood means. (via theatlantic)
(via theatlantic)
I have nothing now but praise for my life. I’m not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can’t stop them. They leave me and I love them more. … What I dread is the isolation. … There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready.
Maurice Sendak on Fresh Air in 2011. [all interviews with Sendak here] (via nprfreshair)
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