{"id":4562,"date":"2026-06-11T20:05:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T18:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/?p=4562"},"modified":"2026-06-11T20:05:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T18:05:20","slug":"sondheim-biografie-art-isnt-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/2026\/06\/11\/sondheim-biografie-art-isnt-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sondheim biografie: Art isn&#8217;t easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Er is een nieuwe biografie verschenen over Stephen Sondheim. In&nbsp;<em>Stephen Sondheim: Art Isn\u2019t Easy<\/em>&nbsp;volgt schrijver Daniel Okrent het leven en werk van Sondheim, van zijn jeugd en zijn vormende band met Oscar Hammerstein II tot zijn ontwikkeling als een van de belangrijkste vernieuwers van het Amerikaanse muziektheater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" data-attachment-id=\"4565\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/2026\/06\/11\/sondheim-biografie-art-isnt-easy\/afbeelding-3-8\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sondheimnederland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Afbeelding-3.jpeg?fit=550%2C550&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"550,550\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Afbeelding 3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sondheimnederland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Afbeelding-3.jpeg?fit=550%2C550&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sondheimnederland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Afbeelding-3.jpeg?resize=550%2C550&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4565 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sondheimnederland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Afbeelding-3.jpeg?w=550&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sondheimnederland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Afbeelding-3.jpeg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sondheimnederland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Afbeelding-3.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sondheimnederland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Afbeelding-3.jpeg?resize=12%2C12&amp;ssl=1 12w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Het boek gaat niet alleen over de bekende titels als\u00a0<em>Company<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Sweeney Todd<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Sunday in the Park with<\/em> <em>George<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Into the Woods<\/em>, maar ook over Sondheims persoonlijke leven, zijn samenwerkingen en zijn vaak ingewikkelde verhouding tot succes, vriendschap en het creatieve proces. Okrent putte onder meer uit correspondentie, gesprekken met vrienden en medewerkers, en Sondheims eigen oral history, die pas na zijn overlijden toegankelijk werd.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em> <\/em>Daniel Okrent is journalist en auteur, onder meer bekend als de eerste public editor van\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>. Zijn biografie verschijnt bij Yale University Press in de reeks\u00a0<em>Jewish Lives<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Stephen Sondheim: Art Isn\u2019t Easy<\/em>&nbsp;is Engelstalig en verkrijgbaar als e-book, hardcover en audioboek.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Er is een nieuwe biografie verschenen over Stephen Sondheim. In&nbsp;Stephen Sondheim: Art Isn\u2019t Easy&nbsp;volgt schrijver Daniel Okrent het leven en werk van Sondheim, van zijn jeugd en zijn vormende band met Oscar Hammerstein II tot zijn ontwikkeling als een van de belangrijkste vernieuwers van het Amerikaanse muziektheater. Het boek gaat niet alleen over de bekende<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/2026\/06\/11\/sondheim-biografie-art-isnt-easy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Sondheim biografie: Art isn&#8217;t easy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":203202171,"featured_media":4565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20131,10964,42703],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geen-categorie","category-nieuws","category-producten","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcTMFP-1bA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sondheimnederland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Afbeelding-3.jpeg?fit=550%2C550&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203202171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4562"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4578,"href":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562\/revisions\/4578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sondheimnederland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}