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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
Author
Composer
Dramaturge
Librettist
Lyricist
Musician
Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
New York City
New York
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
Pulitzer
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Unbeknownst
Choral

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