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You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.

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Stephen Sondheim
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: March 22
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Dramaturge
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Musician
Poet
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New York City
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Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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