Usuku lokuzalwa olumnandi kuMqambi wam Oyintandane, uStephen Sondheim!

UStephen Sondheim nguStephen Sondheim

Njengomntu okhulele ukuthanda umculo weqonga, uStephen Sondheim uhlala enguthixo kum. Nokuba ugqibe Inkampani okanye ubukele njengepeyinti yeGeorges Seurat eza ebomini kwinqanaba NgeCawa epakini noGeorge , Kukho into malunga nomsebenzi kaSondheim ofikelela kuwe kwaye uyala ukuyeka.

Ndihlala ndizifumana ndilila kwimiboniso yakhe, ndihleli ndithe cwaka kwaye ndicinga ngobugcisa obuqaqambileyo obungena kwingoma nganye kaSondheim ayenzayo. Mhlawumbi kungenxa yendalo yakhe ebuhlungu xa wayesemncinci, okanye mhlawumbi kukukwazi kwakhe ukuba ngumdali, kodwa uStephen Sondheim uyazi indlela yokufikelela kubaphulaphuli bakhe.

Xa ndabona ukusebenza kokuvala kukaJake Gyllenhaal NgeCawa epakini noGeorge , UStephen Sondheim wayekhona. Ukuphuma kwakhe emnyango, ndandingomnye wabantu abambona ngoko nangoko. Ekuphela kwento endandinokuyenza yayikukuqala ndiqhwabe izandla, kwaye xa sele esondele ngokwaneleyo, ndandithetha nje ngendlela umsebenzi wakhe obaluleke ngayo kum. Emva koko, umfundi wasekholejini wangqiyama wandibuza ukuba ngubani lowo, kwaye ndaphantse ndafa kwangoko, kodwa kunjalo, ndajonga le ndoda indinike kakhulu kwaye ndamlilela.

Yonke le nto ithethwayo, ayindim ndedwa onale mpendulo kuStephen Sondheim. Ngapha koko, baninzi kwihlabathi liphela ababambe umsebenzi kaSondheim njengebhayibhile yabo, kwaye namhlanje, ngomhla wama-89 wokuzalwa kwengqondi yomculo, abaninzi kwihlabathi jikelele bathathe babelana nothando lwabo lweSondheim.

(Le tweet ithi i-88, kodwa ke, ngu-Stephen Sondheim's 89th birthday)

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Usuku lokuzalwa olumnandi kule ndoda, ilivo, uStephen Sondheim. Siyakuthanda.

(umfanekiso: Thos Robinson / Getty Izithombe zeNew Yorker)

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