Back to ASSASSins for a moment:
It's interesting (to me) that I've always cared less about what Mr. Sondheim may have thought about our scrappy little 4-piece reduction than the fact the he had to hear me land on a chord before the actor got there in a recitative-like passage. It's one of those things you want to kill yourself over and you forever wonder how it could have happened (and it was clearly marked in my score), and you never stop berating yourself. BUT (there's that BUT again)... what eased my pain was the knowledge that the master later got to witness our MD picking up his guitar to accompany John Hinckley, losing his grip on it, and nearly knocking his music stand over. Thank gawd for that. Even though he's dead now. (Sondheim, not the MD.)
