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petzipellepingoGet your Phil of Sharks and Jets
By BARBARA HOFFMAN
Talk about knowing the score: Who better to play “West Side Story” than Leonard Bernstein’s own New York Philharmonic?
We’re about to find out. For two nights only — Wednesday and Thursday — the Phil will back up the Jets, the Sharks and star-crossed lovers Tony and Maria as the 1961 film unspools at Avery Fisher Hall.
Thanks to some digital voodoo, the instrumentals from the soundtrack have been removed, freeing 96 live musicians to perform “Somewhere,” “Maria” and the rest of that indelible score.
The music’s hardly new to the Phil: Bernstein, its laureate conductor, wrote an abridged version, “Symphonic Dances,” just for the orchestra. But never before have they played all 90 minutes of “West Side Story,” their strings, woodwinds, percussion and brass beefed up by three saxophones and electric and Spanish guitars.
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By BARBARA HOFFMAN
Talk about knowing the score: Who better to play “West Side Story” than Leonard Bernstein’s own New York Philharmonic?
We’re about to find out. For two nights only — Wednesday and Thursday — the Phil will back up the Jets, the Sharks and star-crossed lovers Tony and Maria as the 1961 film unspools at Avery Fisher Hall.
Thanks to some digital voodoo, the instrumentals from the soundtrack have been removed, freeing 96 live musicians to perform “Somewhere,” “Maria” and the rest of that indelible score.
The music’s hardly new to the Phil: Bernstein, its laureate conductor, wrote an abridged version, “Symphonic Dances,” just for the orchestra. But never before have they played all 90 minutes of “West Side Story,” their strings, woodwinds, percussion and brass beefed up by three saxophones and electric and Spanish guitars.
( Read more... )
