Ricardo Lorenz re-imagines Sondheim
On April 21, 2012, Ricardo Lorenz attended the New York premiere of Liaisons: Re-imagining Sondheim from the Piano, a concert project involving over thirty of the world’s foremost contemporary composers, including Lorenz, and their solo piano creations based on Sondheim songs. Produced by Rachel Colbert and performed by pianist and co-producer Anthony de Mare, Liaisons gathers short piano pieces commissioned from composers such as Steve Reich, William Bolcom, Fred Hersch, Frederic Rzewski, Paul Moravec, Mason Bates, and two dozen others. Regarding Lorenz’s re-imagination of Sondheim, the composer writes: “Summer of 1982 was wonderfully diabolic. I danced a waltz with Mephistopheles and