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      • " America " is a song from the 1957 musical West Side Story. Stephen Sondheim wrote the lyrics and Leonard Bernstein composed the music.
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  2. America" is a song from the 1957 musical West Side Story. Stephen Sondheim wrote the lyrics and Leonard Bernstein composed the music.

  3. Jun 22, 2023 · West Side Story. We know the tale, the intractable link with Romeo, Juliet and the tragic confusion precipitated by the tension between two rival factions. Tony is American, from America. Maria is from Puerto Rico, and like her friends and family, desperate to make a new home. In America.

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  4. West Side Story is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Inspired by William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial, blue-collar neighborhood.

  5. West Side Story is the soundtrack album to the 1961 film West Side Story, featuring music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

  6. Stephen Sondheim questioned at the time whether he was the right person to write the lyrics. He said then that he had never even met a Puerto Rican, yet he was tasked with capturing the racial tension of the city and the era.

  7. Jul 2, 2014 · While reflecting on writing the lyrics for West Side Story, Stephen Sondheim has said, “one of the things I learned from him was not always necessarily to think in terms of 2-, 4- and 8-bar phrases.” For an example, listen to the complex Latin cross-rhythms in the opening of America. There are four distinct rhythmic layers. By the time the ...

  8. Feb 16, 2012 · Sondheim (left) wrote the lyrics for West Side Story; classical-music superstar Leonard Bernstein (center) was the composer, Jerome Robbins the director and choreographer.