The John Wilson Orchestra performs West Side Story (BBC Proms, 2018)  24126

  • 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 the complete work of art which melds popular music, art music, lyrics, choreography; all of the things come together in a way that they’d never before”.

Contents

    Something’s Coming
    from West Side Story
    • music by Leonard Bernstein
    • words by Stephen Sondheim
    Maria
    from West Side Story
    • music by Leonard Bernstein
    • words by Stephen Sondheim
    Somewhere
    from West Side Story
    • music by Leonard Bernstein
    • words by Stephen Sondheim
    I Feel Pretty
    from West Side Story
    • music by Leonard Bernstein
    • words by Stephen Sondheim
    Cool
    from West Side Story
    • music by Leonard Bernstein
    • words by Stephen Sondheim
    Jet Song
    from West Side Story
    • music by Leonard Bernstein
    • words by Stephen Sondheim
    Prologue (Instrumental)
    from West Side Story
    • music by Leonard Bernstein
    The Dance at the Gym (Instrumental)
    from West Side Story
    • music by Leonard Bernstein
    Tonight (Balcony Scene)
    from West Side Story
    • music by Leonard Bernstein
    • words by Stephen Sondheim
    America
    from West Side Story
    • music by Leonard Bernstein
    • words by Stephen Sondheim
    One Hand, One Heart (Marriage Scene)
    from West Side Story
    • music by Leonard Bernstein
    • words by Stephen Sondheim
    Tonight
    from West Side Story
    • music by Leonard Bernstein
    • words by Stephen Sondheim
    The Rumble (Instrumental)
    from West Side Story
    • music by Leonard Bernstein
    Ballet Sequence
    from West Side Story
    • music by Leonard Bernstein
    • words by Stephen Sondheim
    Gee, Officer Krupke
    from West Side Story
    • music by Leonard Bernstein
    • words by Stephen Sondheim
    A Boy Like That / I Have A Love
    from West Side Story
    • music by Leonard Bernstein
    • words by Stephen Sondheim
    Taunting Scene (Instrumental)
    from West Side Story
    • music by Leonard Bernstein
    Finale
    from West Side Story
    • music by Leonard Bernstein
    • words by Stephen Sondheim
    West Side Story
    • music by Leonard Bernstein
    • words by Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim
    Total items: 19

    Topics covered by this radio

    1. My Fair Lady (drama) • 01:20:50 • John Wilson on My Fair Lady as one of the 'twin peaks' of American musical theatre with West Side Story
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