"from West Side Story” recomposed and conducted by its original composer Leonard Bernstein and performed by the New York Philharmonic recorded at the Manhattan Center on March 6, 1961. It was recorded at the CBS 30th Street Studio in New York City. All tracks written by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast) West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast) is the 1957 recording of a Broadway production of the musical ""West Side Story"". Recorded 3 days after the show opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, the recording was released in October 1957 in both mono and"
"West Side Story (film) West Side Story is a 1961 American romantic musical tragedy film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. The film is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was inspired by William Shakespeare's play ""Romeo and Juliet"". It stars Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, and George Chakiris, and was photographed by Daniel L. Fapp, A.S.C., in Super Panavision 70. Released on October 18, 1961, through United Artists, the film received high praise from critics and viewers, and became the second highest grossing film of the year"
"Tribune"" on September 27, 1957: The other reviews generally joined in speculation about how the new work would influence the course of musical theater. Typical was John Chapman's review in the ""New York Daily News"" on September 27, 1957, headed: ""West Side Story a Splendid and Super-Modern Musical Drama"". ""Time"" magazine found the dance and gang warfare more compelling than the love story and noted that the show's ""putting choreography foremost, may prove a milestone in musical-drama history ..."" The score for ""West Side Story"" was orchestrated by Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal following detailed instructions from Bernstein, who then"
"West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast) West Side Story (Original Broadway Cast) is the 1957 recording of a Broadway production of the musical ""West Side Story"". Recorded 3 days after the show opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, the recording was released in October 1957 in both mono and stereo formats. In 1962, the album reached #5 on Billboard's Pop Album chart. It certified gold by the RIAA on January 12, 1962. The album was reissued in 1973 and made its first appearance on CD in 1986. A 1997 remastered edition is coupled with an orchestral suite named “Symphonic Dances"
"Brittany Snow and Drake Bell. West Side Story (film) West Side Story is a 1961 American romantic musical tragedy film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. The film is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was inspired by William Shakespeare's play ""Romeo and Juliet"". It stars Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, and George Chakiris, and was photographed by Daniel L. Fapp, A.S.C., in Super Panavision 70. Released on October 18, 1961, through United Artists, the film received high praise from critics and viewers, and became the second highest"
"West Side Story (soundtrack) West Side Story is the soundtrack to the 1961 film ""West Side Story"". Released in 1961, the soundtrack spent 54 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's album charts, giving it the longest run at No. 1 of any album in history, although some lists instead credit Michael Jackson's ""Thriller"", on the grounds that ""West Side Story"" was listed on a chart for stereo albums only at a time when many albums were recorded in mono. In 1962, it won a Grammy award for ""Best Sound Track Album – Original Cast"" and Johnny Richards orchestrations of the"
"Somewhere (song) ""Somewhere"", sometimes referred to as ""Somewhere (There's a Place for Us)"" or simply ""There's a Place for Us"", is a song from the 1957 Broadway musical ""West Side Story"" that was made into a film in 1961. The music is composed by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and takes a phrase from the slow movement of Beethoven's 'Emperor' Piano Concerto, which forms the start of the melody,(actually is a quote from the cello and bass line in Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet, 17 bars from the end.) and also a longer phrase from the main theme of"
"dubbed into other languages. All of them were released on DVD by Kultur Video (half of them in 2013). Around the time he was appointed music director of the New York Philharmonic, and living opposite Carnegie Hall at The Osborne, Bernstein composed the music for two shows. The first was for the operetta ""Candide"", which was first performed in 1956 with a libretto by Lillian Hellman based on Voltaire's novella. The second was Bernstein's collaboration with the choreographer Jerome Robbins, the writer Arthur Laurents, and the lyricist Stephen Sondheim to produce the musical ""West Side Story"". The first three had"
"In 1957, ""West Side Story"" opened; directed by Jerome Robbins, it ran for 732 performances. Sondheim has expressed dissatisfaction with his lyrics, saying that they do not always fit the characters and are sometimes too consciously poetic. While Bernstein was working on ""Candide"", Sondheim reportedly wrote some of ""West Side Story""s music; Bernstein's co-lyricist credit disappeared from ""West Side Story"" during its tryout, possibly as a trade-off. Sondheim insisted that Bernstein told the producers to list him as the sole lyricist. He described the division of the royalties, saying that Bernstein received three percent and he received one percent. Bernstein"
"uses elements of another ""West Side Story"" song, ""I Feel Pretty"", and the album version uses elements of ""One Hand, One Heart"" spoken by Chris Lowe. Somewhere (song) ""Somewhere"", sometimes referred to as ""Somewhere (There's a Place for Us)"" or simply ""There's a Place for Us"", is a song from the 1957 Broadway musical ""West Side Story"" that was made into a film in 1961. The music is composed by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and takes a phrase from the slow movement of Beethoven's 'Emperor' Piano Concerto, which forms the start of the melody,(actually is a quote"
"Something's Coming (song) ""Something's Coming"" is a song from the 1957 musical ""West Side Story"". It was composed by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and is sung solo in a tenor voice by the male lead character 'Tony'. In his work ""Leonard Bernstein"", Humphrey Burton explained: ""When it was decided to add Tony’s first-act song ""Something’s Coming,"" Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim the scene-setting page in Arthur Laurents’s outline. ""something’s coming,"" Laurents had written: ""it may be around the corner, whistling down the river, twitching at the dance – who knows?"" The lines were incorporated in the lyrics. ""We"
"Tonight (1956 song) ""Tonight"" is a popular song with music written by Leonard Bernstein and the lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and was published in 1956. It was introduced in the Broadway musical ""West Side Story."" The movie version, featuring vocals by Marni Nixon (dubbing Natalie Wood) and Jimmy Bryant (dubbing Richard Beymer), finished at #59 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. The song was revived in 1961 on single records in versions by Ferrante & Teicher (#8 pop, #2 easy listening) and Eddie Fisher, whose version narrowly missed the Top 40. Shirley Bassey recorded"
"Tonight (1956 song) ""Tonight"" is a popular song with music written by Leonard Bernstein and the lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and was published in 1956. It was introduced in the Broadway musical ""West Side Story."" The movie version, featuring vocals by Marni Nixon (dubbing Natalie Wood) and Jimmy Bryant (dubbing Richard Beymer), finished at #59 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. The song was revived in 1961 on single records in versions by Ferrante & Teicher (#8 pop, #2 easy listening) and Eddie Fisher, whose version narrowly missed the Top 40. Shirley Bassey recorded"
"credited as a member of the board in addition to production and lighting manager, although not as lighting designer. She was lighting designer for hundreds of productions, including numerous Broadway shows, Martha Graham's dances, the New York City Ballet, and the Metropolitan Opera. On Broadway she lit musicals such as ""West Side Story"" (1957), ""The Sound of Music"" (1959), ""Take Me Along"" (1959), ""A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"" (1962), ""Fiddler on the Roof"" (1964), ""Hello, Dolly!"" (1964), ""Cabaret"" (1966), and ""The Happy Time"" (1968). Some of her major contributions were the elimination of shadows by"
"size and instrumentation of a string section. The Broadway musical West Side Story, in 1957, was booked into the Winter Garden theater; composer Leonard Bernstein disliked the playing of ""house"" viola players he would have to use there, and so he chose to leave them out of the show's instrumentation; a benefit was the creation of more space in the pit for an expanded percussion section. George Martin, producer and arranger for The Beatles, warns arrangers about the intonation problems when only two like instruments play in unison: ""After a string quartet, I do not think there is a satisfactory"
"case of the MGM musicals, it was usually Conrad Salinger, and in the case of ""West Side Story"", it was Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal. As mentioned earlier, Green conducted the orchestra for such famous MGM musicals as ""An American in Paris"", as well as for United Artists' 1961 film version of ""West Side Story"". In 1965, Green conducted the music for that year's new adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's only musical for television, ""Cinderella"", starring Lesley Ann Warren, Walter Pidgeon, Ginger Rogers, and Stuart Damon. Johnny Green also adapted, orchestrated and conducted the music for the film ""Oliver!"" (1968),"
"wrote revisions on their manuscript (the original, heavily annotated by Ramin, Kostal and Bernstein himself is in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library at Columbia University). Ramin, Kostal, and Bernstein are billed as orchestrators for the show. The orchestra consisted of 31 players: a large Broadway pit orchestra enhanced to include 5 percussionists, a guitarist and a piano/celesta player. In 1961, Bernstein prepared a suite of orchestral music from the show, titled ""Symphonic Dances from West Side Story"": Recordings of ""West Side Story"" include the following: The 1961 film adaptation of the musical received praise from critics and the public,"
"constantly shifting its mood, as if moving from one scene to the next. "" In 2008, the English exam board Edexcel added 'Something's Coming' to their Music GCSE syllabus, and is now used as one of the 12 set works covered in the course, under '20th Century Music'. Something's Coming (song) ""Something's Coming"" is a song from the 1957 musical ""West Side Story"". It was composed by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and is sung solo in a tenor voice by the male lead character 'Tony'. In his work ""Leonard Bernstein"", Humphrey Burton explained: ""When it was decided"
"(1962) and ""The Sound of Music"" (1965). In 1961, teamed with Jerome Robbins, Wise won the Academy Award for Best Director for ""West Side Story"", which Wise also produced. Wise and Robbins were the first duo to share an Academy Award for directing. Wise won a second Oscar, for Best Picture, as the film's producer, ""West Side Story"" won ten out of its 11 Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (George Chakiris), Supporting Actress (Rita Moreno), Cinematography (color), Art/Set Decoration (color), Sound, Scoring of a Musical Picture, Editing, and Costume Design (color). It lost for Best Screenplay based"
"Saul Chaplin Saul Chaplin (February 19, 1912 – November 15, 1997) was an American composer and musical director. He was born Saul Kaplan in Brooklyn, New York. He had worked on stage, screen and television since the days of Tin Pan Alley. In film, he won three Oscars for collaborating on the scores and orchestrations of ""An American in Paris"" (1951), ""Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"" (1954) and ""West Side Story"" (1961). Following education at New York University's School of Commerce, where he studied accounting, Chaplin joined the ASCAP and started out penning tunes for the theatre, vaudeville and for"
"from the dream sequence and says that's not the rumble he had in mind. Tonight Quintet The ""Tonight Quintet"" is a number from the musical ""West Side Story"" (1957), with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Carol J. Oja has written that, ""with the 'Tonight' quintet, Bernstein once again created a masterpiece of ensemble, one that rivals the best of such moments in European opera."" Her remark echoes the earlier view of Will Crutchfield. In his review of the 1984 studio performance of ""West Side Story"", which was conducted by Bernstein himself, Crutchfield wrote that the release"
"up to that time, or at least one of them. The idea was quickly followed by similar efforts by others as well as by Manne and Previn. Sometimes under Manne's name, other times under Previn's, as ""André Previn and His Pals"", they recorded numerous other treatments of Broadway musicals in the next few years (the first with Vinnegar on bass, the rest with Red Mitchell, who took over the bass chair when Vinnegar left the group to pursue other musical opportunities), including ""Li'l Abner"" (1957), ""Pal Joey"" (1957), ""Gigi"" (1958), ""Bells Are Ringing"" (1958), and ""West Side Story"" (1959), all"
"to such groundbreaking works as ""Show Boat"" (1927) and ""Oklahoma!"" (1943). Some of the most famous musicals through the decades that followed include ""West Side Story"" (1957), ""The Fantasticks"" (1960), ""Hair"" (1967), ""A Chorus Line"" (1975), ""Les Misérables"" (1985), ""The Phantom of the Opera"" (1986), ""Rent"" (1996), ""The Producers"" (2001), ""Wicked"" (2003) and ""Hamilton"" (2015). Musicals are performed around the world. They may be presented in large venues, such as big-budget Broadway or West End productions in New York City or London. Alternatively, musicals may be staged in smaller venues, such as fringe theatre, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, regional theatre, or community"
"Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein ( ; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the US to receive worldwide acclaim. According to music critic Donal Henahan, he was ""one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history."" His fame derived from his long tenure as the music director of the New York Philharmonic, from his conducting of concerts with most of the world's leading orchestras, and from his music for ""West Side Story"", ""Peter Pan"", ""Candide"", ""Wonderful Town"","
"Tonight Quintet The ""Tonight Quintet"" is a number from the musical ""West Side Story"" (1957), with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Carol J. Oja has written that, ""with the 'Tonight' quintet, Bernstein once again created a masterpiece of ensemble, one that rivals the best of such moments in European opera."" Her remark echoes the earlier view of Will Crutchfield. In his review of the 1984 studio performance of ""West Side Story"", which was conducted by Bernstein himself, Crutchfield wrote that the release of the recording ""is above all an occasion for celebrating one of the great"
"as a leader for several labels. Albam also found an entree into the classical music world when he arranged Leonard Bernstein's score for ""West Side Story"" in 1957. The work earned Albam a Grammy Nomination in 1959. Bernstein was said to have been so impressed that he invited Albam to write for the New York Philharmonic itself, an invitation, according to allmusic.com, that led Albam to study classical music for a time and, in due course, write such works as ""Concerto for Trombone and Strings"". By 1964, Albam became musical director for United Artists-Solid State Records; his jazz suite ""The"
"to 1959. He produced numerous film scores, such as the one for ""Raintree County"" in 1957. On loan out to Universal, he composed the songs for the Deanna Durbin musical, ""Something in the Wind"", one of her last films before retiring. Nominated for an Oscar thirteen times, he won the award for the musical scores of ""Easter Parade"", ""An American in Paris"", ""West Side Story"", and ""Oliver!"", as well as for producing the short ""The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture"", which won in the Short Subjects (One-Reel) category in 1954. The short subject featured Green conducting the MGM Orchestra on-screen"
"sellers: ""Kiss Me, Kate"" and ""South Pacific"", both recorded and released in 1949. Under the leadership of Columbia's Goddard Lieberson, the label's cast recordings came to define the genre. Columbia Masterworks produced the original cast recordings of such shows as ""The Pajama Game"", ""My Fair Lady"", ""The Sound of Music"", ""West Side Story"", """", and ""Camelot"". Lieberson also recorded important shows that had failed at the box office including ""Candide"" and ""Anyone Can Whistle"". In 1956, he recorded Frank Loesser's musical ""The Most Happy Fella"", which had so much music that it had to be released as a 3-LP set,"
"After moving to New York City, Kostal was hired for Sid Caesar's popular variety series ""Your Show of Shows"", and followed this with a stint at ""The Garry Moore Show"". In the latter part of the decade he began working on Broadway, orchestrating for ""Shinbone Alley"", ""The Music Man"", ""Fiorello!"", and ""West Side Story"". His work on the latter resulted in his being hired to score the 1961 screen adaptation with Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, and Sid Ramin. The quartet won both an Oscar and a Grammy Award for their contributions. Kostal later went on to collaborate with Saul Chaplin"
"on in the 1961 movie that we are focusing on."" Ansel Elgort has been cast as Tony in the film. In addition to Bernstein's own ""West Side Story Suite"", the music from the musical has been adapted by The Buddy Rich Big Band, which arranged and recorded ""West Side Story Medley"" on the 1966 album ""Buddy Rich's Swingin' New Big Band"". The Stan Kenton Orchestra recorded Johnny Richards' 1961 ""Kenton's West Side Story"", an album of jazz orchestrations based on the Bernstein scores. It won the 1962 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Recording by a Large Group. The 1996 album"
"Township, Pennsylvania. He passed away at the age of 94 on August 16, 2011, at his home in Warminster, Pennsylvania. Charles Jaffe (conductor) Charles Jaffe (1917 – August 16, 2011) was an American conductor and musical director, after starting out as a violinist with the Curtis String Quartet in Philadelphia. As musical director of ""West Side Story"", he was nominated for a Tony Award in 1964. Jaffe was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He began his career at the age of 5 when he played solo violin with the Philadelphia Women's Symphony. He was admitted to the Curtis Institute"
"that ""West Side Story"" was nominated for the award. Preston, Cook and Burns also won. The long-running US national tour opened in 1958, starring Forrest Tucker as Hill and Joan Weldon as Marian. The original Australian production ran from March 5, 1960 to July 30, 1960 at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne, and at the Tivoli Theatre in Sydney from December 13, 1960 to February 4, 1961. The first UK production opened at Bristol Hippodrome, transferring to London's West End at the Adelphi Theatre on March 16, 1961, starring Van Johnson, Patricia Lambert, C. Denier Warren, Ruth Kettlewell and Dennis"
"of the authors who had revised the tale of ""Sweeney Todd"" over the years, had put the plot into the story. Nevertheless, in 1977, he wrote of Sondheim ""I needn't tell you that Stephen Sondheim is, both musically and lyrically, the most sophisticated composer now working for the Broadway theater."" In reviewing Leonard Bernstein's ""West Side Story"" he focused on the dancing: ""the most savage, restless, electrifying dance patterns we've been exposed to in a dozen seasons... The dancing is it. Don't look for laughter or—for that matter—tears."" In his review of the original 1956 Broadway production of ""Candide"", he"