The National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia marks the hundredth anniversary of the composer’s birth with an exhibit about his personal life and social activism
It’s time for another tune-up of the classic
The dynamic conductor and genius behind ‘West Side Story’ also wrote classical works. Allen Shawn explores what they reveal.
Homosexuality, Jewishness, and Zionism, in the newly collected letters of the charismatic musician
With Stephen Sondheim’s second collection of his lyrics, the hyper-articulate, neurotic, modernist master Broadway songwriter takes a curtain call
Alisa Solomon gives us the story behind West Side Story
