Stephen Sondheim was famed for his polite, typed responses.
There is now an Instagram site that collects them. Go to it here.
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I’m glad I never wrote to him. I don’t care for the notion that a response to a communication from me to someone could be acknowledged by name on bloody Instagram.
God, I hate social media.
And yet, here you are…
I don’t count discussion forums as social media — I mean Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the variants they have spawned where people “connect” with each other.
The Instagram page states: “Have a letter you’d like to share? DM or sondheimletters@gmail.com
All have been found publicly online or shared with us.”
Brief, but nicer than Heinlein’s solution… a photo-copied form with checkboxes for his pat answers to tiresome questions.
Sondheim obviously practiced responsible celebrity.
Very interesting how (for being a classical music site) Norman is always bashing John Williams – a guy whose art is 100x more “classical” than Sondheim’s – and yet he has multiple glowing pieces here about Sondheim. What gives?
I have nothing against Sondheim by the way; I love his music. But the way Norman writes (and displays his ignorance) about John Williams in comparison, is puzzling. Especially how Norman seems to think that the 2020 Vienna Phil album was John Williams’ “classical record debut,” when Williams had recorded for DG twice before, not to mention countless recordings for Sony Classical and Philips.