Leonard Bernstein's life-long friend and collaborator Sid Ramin talked with the composer's daughter, Jamie, about orchestrating West Side Story both for the Broadway show and the film version.
Prior to the New York Philharmonic's concert of the complete score -- performed live while the newly re-mastered film is shown -- Ramin talked about orchestrating in New York vs Los Angeles or Broadway vs the movies; scoring in ink or Irv Kostal; Lenny, Jerry (Jerome Robbins) and "Officer Krupke;" and growing up and working with Lenny.
Wonderful !
penti77 1 day ago
Lovely memories, beautifully articulated. Thank you!
1BarliNugent1 5 months ago
WSS just played in Chicago, it was nice to hear about the woodwind writing. We all missed the real bassoon. What an amazing score. Thanks for posting!
gailloreto 5 months ago
This is absolutely incredible. Please put more things like this up! Thank you for this!
beastlybobo 5 months ago
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS.
willcwhite 5 months ago