Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
Part Five
Friday 3 June 2005 0:00-1:00 (Radio 3)
Repeated: Friday 3 June 2005 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
5/5. Humphrey Burton rounds up his week on Broadway with Bernstein's most popular work, West Side Story (1957). With the book by Arthur Laurents, choreography by Jerome Robbins and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, the team was in Sondheim's words "a unique concatenation of people".
With contributions from the orchestrator Sid Ramin, a friend of Bernstein's since childhood, and producer Ruth Mitchell, production manager on the original production.
Playlist
West Side Story (excerpts)
Something's coming; The dance at the gym; America; Tonight; Gee, Officer Krupke; A boy like that/I have a love
Larry Kert, Eddie Roll, Grover Dale, Carol Lawrence, Chita Rivera
Orchestra conducted by Max Gobermann
COLUMBIA CK 32603
Chichester psalms
John Bogart
Camerata Singers
New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein
SONY 4716 2
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