https://berkshiremag.com/spring-22-features/a-tribute-to-sondheim
Works cited in this article:
Sondheim Celebration (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MSOU25qQyQ) (Kevin Kaska & Luis Steward; Berkshire Symphony, Mar 11, 2022 (https://events.williams.edu/event/berkshire-symphony-54/)).
"Sondheim@90@Williams" alumni concert (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EJTuPkSYow) (Mar 6, 2020) and symposium (https://events.williams.edu/event/sondheim90williams-symposium/) (Mar 6-7, 2020).
Sondheim in Our Time and His (https://www.amazon.com/Sondheim-Our-Time-Anthony-Sheppard/dp/0197603203) (Oxford University Press: Feb 25, 2022).
"Stephen Sondheim, The Art of the Musical" (https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1283/the-art-of-the-musical-stephen-sondheim), SJS interviewed by James Lipton in The Paris Review Issue 142, Spring 1997. (excerpted from Sondheim's 1994 episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjEMVHtsyX4) of Lipton's Inside The Actor's Studio).
Our Time (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRhSfl6sL_Y) (Ilya Khodosh & Omar Sangare); "devised" play, based on materials in the Williams archives, about the years (1946-50) SJS spent as an undergraduate there, performed Mar 5-14, 2020 at the Adams Memorial Theatre on campus; reviewed (unfavorably) here (https://williamsrecord.com/258888/arts/our-time-review-a-production-that-refuses-to-grapple-with-identity/); program here (https://events.williams.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/247/files/2019/09/Our-Time-Program-FINAL.pdf); SJS video interview used in the production here (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=214282116426251).
NPR: A rare recording of a musical by an 18-year-old Sondheim surfaces (https://www.npr.org/2022/12/02/1140248227/stephen-sondheim-rare-recording-phinneys-rainbow-college-musical)
..."Rare" being a slightly relative term in this case, as -- according to the folks on FB -- this recording has been making the rounds for years among the most dedicated Sondheim collectors; and for the rest of us, "How Do I Know?" appeared on one of the
Sondheim Sings albums (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihV8QVLdU4I) in 2005.
Straight off the bat,
Phinney's Overture announces itself with premonitions of Fredrika's piano figures (https://youtu.be/_v4eNe6Fi10?t=15) in "The Glamorous Life" and the Tin Pan rag accompaniments of "That Old Piano Roll" (https://youtu.be/HRA72BAPVWc) and "Who Wants To Live in New York?" (https://youtu.be/g0HYKQRJ_eA?t=174). I'm sure there are plenty of other later echoes, but those jumped out at me immediately: