Melissa Errico - "Finishing The Hat" by Stephen Sondheim

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Segment from PBS Program "Poetry In America" -- An Analysis of Lyrics and Gender
As Melissa describes it: "I had a chance not long ago to try one of the greatest Sondheim songs - an aria really - “ Finishing The Hat”, from “Sunday In The Park." I had heard my creative partner Raul Esparza sing it countless times on stage, and often thought about what it might mean for a woman to sing it. Knowing though I do that Steve Sondheim himself finds this thought heretical - it’s a song written for Georges Seurat, point, as the French say, period! -I still think that a woman’s point of view on the struggle between creative fulfillment and personal happiness might be provocative, profound, even agonizing. Pure pain. Necessary pain if you are ever to make any art at all. As the great male singers have approached it, the finished hat seems worth the love lost; for a woman, love lost - or family neglected - still come at a higher cost, and though we must finish our artful hats, we register the cost with every dot of color added. Point. There are always families to soothe, men to placate, children to care for-- and even when there are not children to care for, there is sometimes the conscious choice made not to have them. Precious interruptions as you make a hat, before you (for example) even get to the hat band! Starting a hat becomes a most tender experience of appreciation, a profoundly tender one. Finishing a hat is so precious as to be, sometimes, hard to believe."
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@accioclownery 3 месяца назад

Lyrics✨ Yes, she looks for me Good Let her look for me to tell me why she left me As I always knew she would I had thought she understood They have never understood And no reason that they should But if anybody could Finishing the hat How you have to finish the hat How you watch the rest of the world From a window While you finish the hat Mapping out a sky What you feel like, planning a sky What you feel when voices that come Through the window Go Until they distance and die Until there's nothing but sky And how you're always turning back too late From the grass or the stick Or the dog or the light How the kind of woman willing to wait's Not the kind that you want to find waiting To return you to the night Dizzy from the height Coming from the hat Studying the hat Entering the world of the hat Reaching through the world of the hat Like a window Back to this one from that Studying a face Stepping back to look at a face Leaves a little space in the way like a window But to see It's the only way to see And when the woman that you wanted goes You can say to yourself, "Well, I give what I give" But the woman who won't wait for you knows That however you live There's a part of you always standing by Mapping out the sky Finishing a hat Starting on a hat Finishing a hat Look, I made a hat Where there never was a hat

@royalt1476 Год назад

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@royalt1476 Год назад

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@glpr1 4 года назад

Melissa Errico: I find this analysis really meaningful. Gender-swapping can often be little more than an entertaining trick. But, just as Marianne Elliott has reimagined Bobby(ie) your thoughtful reinterpretation of George adds Color and Light. I know there would be an appreciative audience should you decide to share more text analysis in this or any other format.