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37 contemporary composers chose a song by Stephen Sondheim and re-imagined it as a solo piano piece. Contents below: Akiho: Into the Woods (Act I Opening Into the Woods) Bates: Very Put Together (Putting it Together Sunday in the Park with George) Beglarian: Perpetual Happiness (Happiness Passion) Bermel: Sorry/Grateful (Sorry-Grateful Company) Bischoff: The Ballad of Guiteau (The Ballad of Guiteau Assassins) Bolcom: A Little Night Fughetta (Anyone Can Whistle Anyone Can Whistle and Send in the Clowns A Little Night Music) Brown: Birds of Victorian England (Green Finch and Linnet Bird Sweeney Todd) Bunch: The Demon Barber (The Ballad of Sweeney Todd Sweeney Todd) Childs: Now (Now, Later and Soon A Little Night Music) Daugherty: Everybody’s Got the Right (Everybody’s Got the Right Assassins) de Mare: Sunday in the Park – Passages (Sunday in the Park with George) Golub: A Child of Children and Art (Children and Art Sunday in the Park with George) Gordon: Every Day a Little Death (Every Day a Little Death A Little Night Music) Gosfield: A Bowler Hat (A Bowler Hat Pacific Overtures) Heggie: I’m Excited. No, You’re Not. (A Weekend in the Country A Little Night Music) Hersch: No One Is Alone (No One Is Alone Into the Woods) Iverson: Send in the Clowns (Send in the Clowns A Little Night Music) Kahane: Being Alive (Being Alive Company) Kline: Paraphrase (Someone in a Tree) (Someone in a Tree Pacific Overtures) León: going . . . gone (Good Thing Going Merrily We Roll Along) Lorenz: The Worst [Empanadas] in London (The Worst Pies in London and A Little Priest Sweeney Todd) Marsalis: That Old Piano Roll (That Old Piano Roll Follies) Moravec: I Think About You (Losing My Mind Follies) Muhly: Color and Light (Color and Light Sunday in the Park with George) Musto: Epiphany (Sweeney Todd) Newman: Not While I’m Around (Not While I’m Around Sweeney Todd) Rakowski: The Ladies Who Lunch (The Ladies Who Lunch Company) Reich: Finishing the Hat – 2 Pianos (Finishing the Hat Sunday in the Park with George) Rockwell: You Could Drive a Person Crazy (You Could Drive a Person Crazy Company) Roumain: Another Hundred People (Another Hundred People Company) Rzewski: I’m Still Here (I’m Still Here Follies) Sharman: Notes on Beautiful (Beautiful Sunday in the Park with George) Sheik: Johanna in Space (Johanna Sweeney Todd) Shire: Love Is in the Air (Love Is in The Air A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) Speach: In and Out of Love (Liaisons and Send in the Clowns A Little Night Music) Turnage: Pretty Women (Pretty Women Sweeney Todd) Vigeland: Merrily We Roll Along (Merrily We Roll Along and The Hills of Tomorrow Merrily We Roll Along)