"The song was a ballad in “All That Glitters”, the second of my Williams College shows, and it was called “I Must Be Dreaming”…My father wanted me to listen to the broadcast with him, but I was too nervous and wanted to listen to it alone. The only place where I could be completely by myself was at the Hammersteins’ townhouse, a five-story brownstone off Fifth Avenue. They were away for the weekend, the house was empty and I could listen in total solitude. I went into the living room, turned on the radio and sat under a table. I have no wish to go into the psychological implications of that, but when the program was over, I crawled out, stood up and felt enormously proud."
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Stephen Sondheim, Look, I Made a Hat
Sondheim on his first public hearing of a song he wrote. I like this passage, because it’s funny to imagine an almost twenty-something Sondheim crawling under a table.
(via cogsworthylemon)
I love this so much, because I don’t think I have ever heard my music in a live performance where I didn’t want to crawl underneath my seat.
(via thelittlesondheimthings)
