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Were They Thinking: Splicing Sondheim</SPAN></B><B
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artists are as storied as the legendary composer and lyricist Stephen
Sondheim.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And few stories about his
50-plus year career are better told than the 2014 Peabody Award-winning HBO
documentary, “Six by Sondheim<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">.”<SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial">The
task of rummaging through over 100 hours of archival footage and integrating six
songs that best define Sondheim’s body of work into the selected images and
interviews for this documentary fell onto the desk of editor Miky Wolf.<SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial">Wolf
works at Big Sky Edit in New York City, but he was raised in University Heights,
attended Solomon Schechter day school and<B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> </B>then transferred to University School
(Class of 1992) in Hunting Valley.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Wolf was in town promoting the documentary at the </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Chagrin
Arts’ Chautauqua-in-Chagrin program</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial">,
which is where the <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Cleveland Jewish
News</I> caught up with him.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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