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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.
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 ...
West Side Story is the soundtrack album to the 1961 film West Side Story, featuring music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
Apr 22, 2022 · With lyrics penned by the young (and then relatively unknown) Stephen Sondheim, “America” is one of the most memorable songs in West Side Story. Sondheim’s savagely acerbic lyrics were adapted slightly to reflect certain plot changes in the film version, but all the propulsive energy and sarcastic humor remain intact.
Feb 16, 2012 · Stephen Sondheim's credits includes the lyrics for classics like West Side Story and Gypsy, not to mention the music and lyrics for — among others — Sweeney Todd, Assassins, Into the...
Get America (from West Side Story) sheet music by Stephen Sondheim as a digital notation file for Piano/Keyboard and Voice in (transposable). Download, print, transpose, and more.
SYNOPSIS. Act 1 opens with references to its Shakespearean roots, beginning with an angular, jazzy “Prologue” that sets up the rivalry between teenage gangs, the Jets, who are white Americans and the Hispanic Sharks, who are Puerto Ricans.
