A copy of what's being called Stephen Sondheim's first original cast recording has been found on a misplaced CD, capturing the legendary composer's budding skills in a student-led musical while at Williams College in 1948.
FILE – Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim poses after being awarded the Freedom of the City of London at a ceremony in London, on Sept. 27, 2018. A copy of Sondheim’s original cast recording of “Phinney’s Rainbow,” the composer’s first student-led musical while he attended Williams College in 1948, was found. to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams
recently found the CD while putting away material he had amassed for his book and realized it contained “Sondheim’s first original cast recording.” Salsini suspects Sondheim himself recorded one of the shows on an acetate recorder, noting that his mentor Oscar Hammerstein II had urged him to buy such a device. “I’m 90% sure that Sondheim put this tape recorder next to his piano.”
The show was a satire centered on a school named Swindlehurst Prep, whose students are divided into three types — athletes, wolves and intellectuals. When the president is away, the students go wild. Salsini calls the humor “collegiate.” In one quip, someone says: “The students are revolting.” The reply: “The faculty isn’t so good either.”
The sound quality is pretty poor — with laughing and clapping sometimes overwhelming the lyrics — but the find is thrilling, nonetheless. Many of the songs hint at the musical theater giant to become, like the first act’s “How Do I Know?” with clever wordplay: “And I asked you when/ And you said I would know!/But how will I know/When I know that you said ‘no’?/I just don’t know!”
Six of Sondheim’s musicals won Tony Awards for best score, and he also received a Pulitzer Prize , an Academy Award , five Olivier Awards and the Presidential Medal of Honor. In 2008, he received a Tony Award for lifetime achievement.
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