This is quite wonderful, especially as the world commemorates Stephen Sondheim.
It’s worth recalling that the original scenario conceived by Jerome Robbins involved a Catholic versus Jewish conflict called East Side Story before the creative team changed it to Puerto Ricans versus whites. Bernstein originally imagined the core tritone theme as a shofar call.
Filed under: Leonard Bernstein, miscellaneous, Stephen Sondheim
MEMETERIA by Thomas May 