my ambition was to be an English Sondheim. Being a lyricist… - Charles Hart

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my ambition was to be an English Sondheim. Being a lyricist is the ideal job for a university-educated dilettante, because it uses up all the rubbish in your education.

Charles Hart

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Charles Hart (3 June 1961 –) is a British lyricist, songwriter and musician.

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Birth Name: Charles Clinton Wilson Hart

Alternative Names: Charles Elliott Hart

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It's a very similar process in many ways to doing translation, if you translate an opera or a work were the music is inflexible and the words have to go from language to another you have a similar challenge.

my ambition was to be an English Sondheim. Being a lyricist is the ideal job for a university-educated dilettante, because it uses up all the rubbish… - Charles Hart

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