Finishing The Hat - Stephen Sondheim -
poetry in america

Thu, Apr 3 3:30 P.M. NH World (11.3)

Stephen Sondheim is widely hailed as the greatest modern American musical theater composer. Series creator Elisa New speaks with Broadway stage actors and writer Adam Gopnik to explore Sondheim's singular ability to blend lyrics and music - using as their case study "Finishing the Hat," from Sondheim's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George.

Duration: 26 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 205

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Thu, Apr 3	3:30 P.M.	Finishing The Hat - Stephen Sondheim NH World (11.3)

About Poetry In America:

Poetry in America explores the diversity of American poetry.

In each episode, members of various American communities join host Elisa New, following Gwendolyn Brooks to the South Side of Chicago, Alberto Rios to the Sonoran Desert, Richard Blanco to Marco Island, and more.

Joining along the way are singers and Supreme Court justices, playwrights and physicists, and teachers and their students.

Watch Poetry In America - Clips, Episodes & Previews

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Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden

Fast Break by Edward Hirsch

Skyscraper by Carl Sandburg

Finishing the Hat, by Stephen Sondheim

Harlem by Langston Hughes

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