Leonard Bernstein

John Wilson conducts On the Town

01:07:00 Interval interview with Alexander Bernstein. 01:13:20 Interview with John Wilson and rehearsal footage at LSO St Luke’s 01:19:00 Cast on singing; intervals, rhythms, range; difference between straight tone today and more bloom on the note;

The John Wilson Orchestra performs West Side Story (BBC Proms, 2018)

00:58:00 Proms Plus interval feature. Katie Molleson in conversation with David Benedict and Sophie Redfern. 01:18:45 Petroc Trelawney in conversation with Mikaela Bennett and Ross Lekites. 01:20:50 My Fair Lady and West Side Story as twin peaks;as pinnacle of American old-fashioned operetta, and as “the great American musical theatre work written in the vernacular, and …

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