Hey, it’s my Birthday Week, and I’m gonna celebrate it with some Stephen Sondheim. He’s on my Musical Mount Rushmore. I’ve perhaps spent more time listening to Sondheim than any other artist. And I still hear new stuff whenever I listen. In this gorgeous song from a made-for-British-TV production, ‘Evening Primrose’, a store mannequin briefly comes to life, and discovers the world outside the dress shop. Here, she (or, in this case, Dianne Reeves) tries to recapture every detail of that experience:
