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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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Composer
Dramaturge
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Musician
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New York City
New York
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
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Pulitzer
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I don't write songs apart from theatrical pieces. I'm not interested in writing songs qua songs.
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I don't like the word 'career'. When somebody says to me, 'oh, you've had such a wonderful career', I think, 'career - that's after you're dead.' I just don't think that way.
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