• Inside the Liberal Arts
    • The Sound Bite Society
    • The Big Picture
    • Tisbury Tales
  • BLOG POSTS
    • ESSAYS & ARTICLES
    • MEDIA CRITICISM
    • COMMENTARY & REVIEWS
    • REFERENCE
    • NINE LIVES: FAVORITE SHORT PIECES
    • WORKS IN PROGRESS
  • TEACHING & EDITING
    • ABOUT
    • Photography
Menu

Jeffrey Scheuer

Street Address
City, State, Zip
Phone Number

Your Custom Text Here

Jeffrey Scheuer

  • Books
    • Inside the Liberal Arts
    • The Sound Bite Society
    • The Big Picture
    • Tisbury Tales
  • BLOG POSTS
  • WRITING
    • ESSAYS & ARTICLES
    • MEDIA CRITICISM
    • COMMENTARY & REVIEWS
    • REFERENCE
    • NINE LIVES: FAVORITE SHORT PIECES
    • WORKS IN PROGRESS
  • TEACHING & EDITING
  • About
    • ABOUT
    • Photography

ON THE EDGE OF ART

December 14, 2024 Jeff Scheuer

This week’s topic – occasioned by a recent evening at a Broadway theater  -- is the (often blurry) boundaries of art.  More specifically, it’s the Broadway musical, a genre notorious for sometimes straddling that boundary. The show in question was a production of “Merrily We Roll Along,” with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. The great Stephen Sondheim, whose career began with his lyrics for one of greatest of all musicals, “West Side Story” (1957), with music by Leonard Bernstein. Now that was a work of art. 

Read more
Comment
← Newer Posts Older Posts →

This website and its content is copyright of Jeffrey Scheuer - © Jeffrey Scheuer 2023. All rights reserved.