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About Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim was born on March 22, 1930, in New York City. His parents worked in the fashion industry: His father was a dress manufacturer; his mother was a designer.
Sondheim showed early musical aptitude — playing piano at a young age — but his parents were largely distracted, his father by work, and his mother by unhappiness.
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They divorced when Sondheim was 10; she and her son moved to Bucks County near Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Sondheim received encouragement from his Pennsylvania neighbor, Oscar Hammerstein II, the renowned Broadway lyricist and producer, best known for his shows with Richard Rodgers.
Sondheim and Hammerstein’s son Jamie were acquainted, and Hammerstein became Sondheim’s surrogate father for all intents and purposes.
Sondheim so admired Hammerstein that he says if his mentor had been a geologist that would have become his own career.
But Hammerstein was a man of the musical theater, and that sparked the
