Bernstein rehearses Kiri and Jose for 'Tonight'

Um maestro é sempre um MAESTRO!
O resto,... é musica e cantar de passarinhos.

This is such a jewel... thanks so much for posting. I must have watched it a dozen times already...

I hate watching the bit where she is told off! Makes me cringeee

De punta se te quedan los pelos!!!increible!!

He's doing it for himself.

what one earth is jose doing with his hand during his first verse... he does realize that lenny is the one conducting correct?

I guess he's only doing that to support his FRASEO (I don't know if there's a word for FRASEO in English, ha ha). I don't think he was trying to conduct

Help himself with the tempi and the frasing. A very natural and helpful thing during recording sessions.

I like the original Broadway/movie cast better because they're more natural. Bernstein obviously has no problem with this cast, so how could I possibly argue with the composer himself? But isn't it ironic that Maria (a character from Puerto Rico) is sung by Kiri (a native English speaker with not much of a Spanish accent when singing this role) and that the native New Yorker Tony character is is sung by Jose from Spain with an obvious Spanish accent? Anyway, the music is a masterpiece.

I have tought about that a lot of times... ha ha. Jose pronounces MARIA perfectly, and not with the classical english accent.