Research Catalog

Title

Leonard Bernstein conducts West Side story [50th Anniversary] / [Music by Leonard Bernstein ; based on a conception of Jerome Robbins ; book by Arthur Laurents ; lyrics by Stephen Sondheim ; orchestration by Leonard Bernstein with Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal].

Author

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990.

Publication

Hamburg, Germany : Deutsche Grammophon, [2007], ℗1985.

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Additional Authors

• Robbins, Jerome.
• Laurents, Arthur
• Sondheim, Stephen
• Te Kanawa, Kiri
• Carreras, José
• Troyanos, Tatiana
• Ollmann, Kurt
• Horne, Marilyn

Description

1 audio disc : digital, stereo; 4 3/4 in. +

Uniform Title

West Side story. Selections

Alternative Title

• West Side story.
• Making of West Side story

Subject

• Musicals > Excerpts
• Revues > Excerpts

Note

• The acc. DVD contains a documentary on the albums's recording sessions.
• Extensive program notes including excerpts from diary of production by Leonard Bernstein. In English, French and German. (99 p. : ill. ; 13 cm.) bound in container.

Event (note)

• Originally recorded at RCA Studio A in New York City, September, 1984.

Contents

Prologue (4:07) -- Jet song (3:13) -- Something's coming (2:35) -- The dance at the gym: Blues (1:46) ; Promenade (0:27) ; Mambo (2:23) ; Cha-cha (0:53) ; Meeting scene (1:27) ; Jump (0:51) -- Maria (2:58) -- Balcony scene (7:33) -- America (4:49) -- Cool (4:40) -- One hand, one heart (5:40) -- Tonight (3:43) -- The rumble (3:03) -- I feel pretty (3:25) -- Ballet sequence: (beginning) (1:06) ; Transition to scherzo (0:29) ; Scherzo (1:31) ; Somewhere (2:37) ; Procession and nightmare (3:14) -- Gee, Officer Krupke (4:20) -- A boy like that (2:06) -- I have a love (3:30) -- Taunting scene (1:25) -- Finale (2:36).

OCLC

• 166399026
• ocn166399026
• SCSB-14025183

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries