Children Will Listen  4325

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• Into the Woods (Movie vocal selections) (book) with the title "Children Will Listen (Film Version)"
  • page 93
  • Instrumentation: voice • piano
  • Key: C
  • Time signature: 4/4
  • Tempo indication: Steady
  • Notes: "This song is an ensemble number in the show, adapted here as a solo. In the film it is sung one half-step lower."
• Singer’s Musical Theatre Anthology, Volume 4, Soprano (book)
  • Instrumentation: voice • piano
  • Key: C
  • Notes: adapted for solo performance
• Sondheim’s 80th Birthday Celebration (tv)
  • 00:36:00
  • Cast: Maria Friedman, BBC Concert Orchestra, David Charles Abell (conductor)
• Sondheim’s 80th Birthday Celebration (tv) (excerpt only)
  • 01:08:00
  • Notes: Interval feature. Rehearsal footage. Friedman on the song, as a mother. Poor relationship between Sondheim and his mother. Driving force between such great relationships with the people he works with / loyalty he displays. Sondheim (1995 interview): My mother was a monster. Extremely selfish. Material values: money and celebrities. Did not want children. Accident. Anger of father leaving taken out on him. Saved by relationship with the Hammersteins, with a son of the same age. "Osmosed into the Hammerstein household ... [motionally?] saved my life." Abell: weeping into Dorothy Hammerstein's fur coat at Carousel premiere.
• Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (tv)
  • 00:35:00
  • #high-class-backing-vocals
  • Cast: Betty Buckley, The Boys Choir of Harlem, American Theatre Orchestra, Paul Gemignani (musical director)
  • Notes: 'Our Time' (preceding number sung by Boys Choir) integrated into backing vocals, with the two combining equally for finale.

Other works with this as their source

• She’ll Be Back by Stephen Sondheim

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