"In 2017, New Yorker staff writer D.T. Max began working on a major profile of Stephen Sondheim that would be timed to the eventual premiere of a new musical Sondheim was writing. Sadly , that process - and the years of conversation - was cut short by Sondheim's own hesitations, then the global pandemic, and finally by the great artist's death in November 2021. Now, Max has taken the raw version of these conversations and knit them together into an...

Focuses on the life and music of the composer who wrote such musical masterpieces as Rhapsody in Blue, American in Paris, and Porgy and Bess, and who made jazz an accepted form of serious music