Before Stephen Sondheim learned to read, he could identify records from his household collection by the particular shapes of the words on their spines. At parties in his family’s handsome Central Park West apartment, his biographer Meryle Secrest writes,...

Before Stephen Sondheim learned to read, he could identify records from his household collection by the particular shapes of the words on their spines. At parties in his family’s handsome Central Park West apartment, his biographer Meryle Secrest writes, “his parents would trot him out in the evenings to demonstrate this parlor trick” for the […]

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