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Table of Contents:

• The ballad of Guiteau / Jherek Bischoff
• Another hundred people / Daniel Bernard Romain ; optional improv-cadenza by Anthony de Mare
• Being alive / Gabriel Kahane
• Birds of Victorian England / Jason Robert Brown
• A bowler hat / Annie Gosfield
• A child of children and art / Peter Golub
• Color and light / Nico Muhly
• The demon barber / Kenji Bunch
• Everybody's got the right / Michael Daugherty
• Epiphany / John Musto
• Every day a little death / Ricky Ian Gordon
• Finishing the hat : 2 pianos / Steve Reich
• I think about you / Paul Moravec
• going... gone / Tania León
• I'm excited ; no, you're not / Jake Heggie
• I'm still here / Frederic Rzewski
• Into the woods / Andy Akiho
• In and out of love / Bernadette Speach
• Johanna in space / Duncan Sheik
• The ladies who lunch / David Rakowski

• A little night fughetta / William Bolcom
• Love is in the air / David Shire
• Merrily we roll along / Nils Vigeland
• No one is alone / Fred Hersch
• Not while I'm around / Thomas Newman
• Notes on "Beautiful" / Rodney Sharman
• Now / Mary Ellen Childs
• Paraphrase : Someone in a tree / Phil Kline
• Pretty women / Mark-Anthony Turnage
• Perpetual happiness / Eve Beglarian
• Send in the clowns / Ethan Iverson
• Sorry-grateful / Derek Bermel
• That old piano roll / Wynton Marsalis
• Sunday in the park : passages / Anthony de Mare
• The worst (empanadas) in London / Ricardo Lorenz
• You could drive a person crazy : schizo scherzo / Eric Rockwell
• Very put together / Mason Bates.

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Contributors:

De Mare, Anthony , producer, composer

Akiho, Andy , composer

Bates, Mason , composer

Beglarian, Eve , composer

Bermel, Derek, 1967- , composer

Bischoff, Jherek , composer

Bolcom, William , composer

Brown, Jason Robert , composer

Bunch, Kenji, 1973- , composer

Childs, Mary Ellen , composer

Daugherty, Michael, 1954- , composer

Golub, Peter , composer

Gordon, Ricky Ian , composer

Gosfield, Annie, 1960- , composer

Heggie, Jake, 1961- , composer

Hersch, Fred , composer

Iverson, Ethan , composer

Kahane, Gabriel , composer

Kline, Phil, 1953- , composer

León, Tania , composer

Lorenz, Ricardo , composer

Marsalis, Wynton, 1961- , composer

Moravec, Paul, 1957- , composer

Muhly, Nico , composer

Musto, John, 1954- , composer

Newman, Thomas, 1955- , composer

Rakowski, David , composer

Reich, Steve, 1936- , composer

Rockwell, Eric , composer

Roumain, Daniel Bernard , composer

Rzewski, Frederic , composer

Sharman, Rodney , composer

Sheik, Duncan, 1969- , composer

Shire, David , composer

Speach, Bernadette, 1948- , composer

Turnage, Mark-Anthony , composer

Vigeland, Nils , composer

Sondheim, Stephen

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Staff notation.

Related Works:

Based on: Assassins [by Sondheim, S.] > Ballad of Guiteau

Based on: Company [by Sondheim, S.] > Another hundred people

Based on: Company [by Sondheim, S.] > Being alive

Based on: Sweeney Todd [by Sondheim, S.] > Green finch and linnet bird

Based on: Pacific overtures [by Sondheim, S.] > Bowler hat

Based on: Sunday in the park with George [by Sondheim, S.] > Children and art

Based on: Sunday in the park with George [by Sondheim, S.] > Color and light

Based on: Sweeney Todd [by Sondheim, S.] > Ballad of Sweeney Todd

Based on: Assassins [by Sondheim, S.] > Everybody's got the right

Based on: Sweeney Todd [by Sondheim, S.] (Selections)

Based on: Little night music [of Sondheim, S.] > Every day a little death

Based on: Sunday in the park with George [by Sondheim, S.] > Finishing the hat

Based on: Follies [by Sondheim, S.] > Losing my mind

Based on: Merrily we roll along [by Sondheim, S.] > Good thing going

Based on: Little night music [of Sondheim, S.] > Weekend in the country

Based on: Follies [by Sondheim, S.] > I'm still here

Based on: Into the woods [by Sondheim, S.] (Selections)

Based on: Little night music [of Sondheim, S.] > Send in the clowns

Based on: Little night music [of Sondheim, S.] > Liaisons

Based on: Sweeney Todd [by Sondheim, S.] > Johanna

Based on: Company [by Sondheim, S.] > Ladies who lunch

Based on: Anyone can whistle [by Sondheim, S.] > Anyone can whistle

Based on: Funny thing happened on the way to the forum [by Sondheim, S.] > Love is in the air

Based on: Merrily we roll along [by Sondheim, S.] (Selections)

Based on: Sweeney Todd [by Sondheim, S.] > Not while I'm around

Based on: Sunday in the park with George [by Sondheim, S.] > Beautiful

Based on: Little night music [of Sondheim, S.] (Selections)

Based on: Pacific overtures [by Sondheim, S.] > Someone in a tree

Based on: Sweeney Todd [by Sondheim, S.] > Pretty women

Based on: Passion [by Sondheim, S.] > Happiness

Based on: Company [by Sondheim, S.] > Sorry-grateful

Based on: Follies [by Sondheim, S.] > That old piano roll

Based on: Sunday in the park with George [by Sondheim, S.] (Selections)

Based on: Sweeney Todd [by Sondheim, S.] > Worst pies in London

Based on: Company [by Sondheim, S.] > You could drive a person crazy

Based on: Sunday in the park with George [by Sondheim, S.] > Putting it together

Subjects:

Sondheim, Stephen — Adaptations

Piano music

Piano music (Pianos (2))

Sondheim, Stephen

Genres:

Scores

Chamber music

Art music

Adaptations

Performance Medium:

1 performer: piano
2 performers: piano (2)

General Notes:

"All pieces were commissioned expressly for The Liaisons Project, Rachel Colbert and Anthony de Mare, producers."--Title page.
"Conceived by concert pianist Anthony de Mare, the concert and recording project Liaisons is based on the songs of composer Stephen Sondheim. 37 contemporary composers chose a song by Sondheim and re-imagined it as a solo piano piece"--Back cover.
"Companion materials are necessary for three titles in this collection, and may be obtained online through the access code. These include a second piano part for Birds of Victorian England and Finishing the Hat : 2 pianos, and an audio track for Johanna in space.
Includes comments from each composer about their contribution.

Physical Description:

1 score (340 pages) ; 31 cm

Call Numbers:

M32.8 .L502 2017

ISBNs:

1495077934
9781495077937

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 888680650667
Publisher Number, Hal Leonard Corporation: HL00200374

OCLC Numbers:

973085799