Stephen Sondheim, one of Broadway history\u2019s songwriting titans, whose music and lyrics raised and reset the artistic standard for the American stage musical, died early Friday at his home in Roxbury, Conn. He was 91.<\/p>\n
His lawyer and friend, F. Richard Pappas, announced the death, which he described as sudden. The day before, Mr. Sondheim had celebrated Thanksgiving with a dinner with friends in Roxbury, Mr. Pappas said.<\/p>\n
An intellectually rigorous artist who perpetually sought new creative paths, Mr. Sondheim was the theater\u2019s most revered and influential composer-lyricist of the last half of the 20th century, if not its most popular.<\/p>\n
His work melded words and music in a way that enhanced them both. From his earliest successes in the late 1950s, when he wrote the lyrics for \u201cWest Side Story\u201d and \u201cGypsy,\u201d through the 1990s, when he wrote the music and lyrics for two audacious musicals, \u201cAssassins,\u201d giving voice to the men and women who killed or tried to kill American presidents, and \u201cPassion,\u201d an operatic probe into the nature of true love, he was a relentlessly innovative theatrical force.<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n Breaking News: Stephen Sondheim is dead at 91. One of Broadway\u2019s most revered songwriters, he set the standard for the American musical. https:\/\/t.co\/U6f5QeP5H9<\/a><\/p>\n — The New York Times (@nytimes) November 26, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n