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"The Sound of Broadway Music" writer Steven Suskin |
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Our guest is Steven Suskin, a walking encyclopedia of the American song. A former Broadway general manager and producer, he now writes a column for Playbill.com, and reviews for Variety. And if you've got books about musical theatre on your shelf, chances are good you've already got one or more of many volumes, including "Show Tunes," "Second Act Trouble" and "Opening Nights on Broadway." In addition to all these, he's spent the better part of the last seven years researching a magnum opus, "The Sound of Broadway Music: A Book of Orchestrators and Orchestrations," which painstakingly chronicles the men and women who make musicals sound the way they do by deciding which instruments will play what in the Broadway pit. He joins host Robert Viagas in the Playbill Radio studio to tell how these artists do their work. |
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Publish Date: 07/24/2009
Length of clip: 00:32:09
Size of clip: 14.7 MB
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