Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim
D. T. Max
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim
D. T. Max
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Brazenly entertaining.
D.T. Max seems like the wrong person for the New Yorker to have assigned to profile the late, legendary composer.
A lot of what Sondheim said was familiar to people who know and love his work, but there were also some poignant new insights, like how much trouble he was having finding words and music for the Buñuel.
Max...mixes his own commentary with the raw and revealing transcripts from his conversations with Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021) near the end of the composer’s life, conducted for what became a posthumous profile.