Original sentence: His interests growing up, aided and abetted by his brave sisters and former "borscht belt" singer/comedian mother, were vast and varied, ranging from foreign film, (Bergman, Ozu, Truffaut, Resnais, Rohmer, Godard, Antonioni, Fellini, Mizoguchi) to popular music, (Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, Neil Young) to the great composers of the twentieth century, (Berg, Britten, Weill, Bernstein, Copland, Bartok, Shostakovich, Rorem, Prokofiev, Messiaen, Tippett, Sondheim) to performance artists and innovative theater creators, (Meredith Monk, Robert Wilson) to painters (Francis Bacon, Matisse, Picasso, Van Gogh, Hopper) to icococlastic and wonderful writers, (Gertrude Stein, Jane Bowles, William Maxwell, Edna St
Edited sentence: His interests growing up, aided and abetted by his brave sisters and former "borscht belt" singer/comedian mother, were vast and varied, ranging from foreign film, (Bergman, Ozu, Truffaut, Resnais, Rohmer, Godard, Antonioni, Fellini, Mizoguchi) to popular music, (Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, Neil Young) to the great composers of the twentieth century, (Berg, Britten, Weill, Bernstein, Copland, Bartok, Shostakovich, Rorem, Prokofiev, Gershwin, Messiaen, Tippett, Sondheim) to performance artists and innovative theater creators, (Meredith Monk, Robert Wilson) to painters (Francis Bacon, Matisse, Picasso, Van Gogh, Hopper) to icococlastic and wonderful writers, (Gertrude Stein, Jane and Paul Bowles, Flannery O'Connor, William Maxwell, Edna St