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petzipellepingoHow West Side Story's Sharks and Jets can help beat London gangs
Alistair Foster
West Side Story could help police tackle gang crime in London, the daughter of Leonard Bernstein, the musical’s composer, claimed today.
The classic Sixties film about feuding New York factions the Sharks and the Jets is already used, under the West Side Story Project, by forces across America and in Berlin to help officers understand and communicate with gangs.
Jamie Bernstein, whose father wrote the score to the 1957 musical and the subsequent film, said the project, which uses the plot as a point of reference, would be “ideal” for London.
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Alistair Foster
West Side Story could help police tackle gang crime in London, the daughter of Leonard Bernstein, the musical’s composer, claimed today.
The classic Sixties film about feuding New York factions the Sharks and the Jets is already used, under the West Side Story Project, by forces across America and in Berlin to help officers understand and communicate with gangs.
Jamie Bernstein, whose father wrote the score to the 1957 musical and the subsequent film, said the project, which uses the plot as a point of reference, would be “ideal” for London.
( Read more... )
