A rare recording of a show Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim wrote and performed —in college — has been discovered hidden in a bookshelf in Milwaukee. Hear it for the first time here.
Sondheim was an 18-year-old sophomore at Williams College in Massachusetts in 1948, and a founding member of its Cap and Bells drama society, when he wrote the satirical musicaland the middle name of college president James Phinney Baxter III.
A CD had slipped down,"literally fell through the cracks — and fell into the next shelf below," Salsini recalls. "As somebody who's lived and breathed Sondheim to the degree I've been able to for my entire adult life, this is a score I really don't know," he says, adding that he had no idea that a performance recording existed.
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