Re: Best American Composer.

David Sternlight (strnlght@netcom.com)
Thu, 18 May 1995 05:38:24 GMT

In article <Pine.OSF.3.91a.950516082537.12537G-100000@hopper.unh.edu>, USS
Kenterprise <wkl@hopper.unh.edu> wrote:
> I happen to think that
> Stephen Sondheim is great, but you do not, perhaps you even consider him
> a pop tunesmith.

I forgot him. He's near-great not because of his tunes but because he
turned a unique American institution, the musical theatre, into near-Grand
Opera.

David