The Melody Lingers On

摘要

Last autumn, when Randy Newman's musical "Faust" was in a workshop rehearsal in New York, Stephen Sondheim asked to sit in on the sessions and hoped it wouldn't make Newman nervous. Newman said, "No, it won't make me nervous, but I hope it doesn't offend you if I rhyme 'girl' and 'world'." Sondheim, who is famous for some of the most sophisticated lyrics ever written, said that in fact it did bother him. "I don't come from that tradition and neither do you," he told Newman, who quickly replied, "Oh, yes, I do."