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Film Review: “West Side Story” — An Unnecessary Remake

Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is fairly entertaining, fairly decent, but that’s about it.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Gerald Peary, Steven Spielberg, Tony Kushner, West-side-story

Theater Review: “West Side Story” — Still Brilliant After All These Years

The Barrington Stage Company’s moving and fiercely energetic production brings West Side Story back to the stage with a bang.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Barrington Stage Company, Culture Vulture, Julianne Boyd, West-side-story

Classical CD Review: San Francisco Symphony’s “West Side Story” — A Brashly Invigorating Performance

The music of West Side Story sounds grippingly urgent and colorful as ever in the hands of one of America’s best orchestras and conductors.

By: Jonathan Blumhofer Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Review Tagged: Leonard Bernstein, Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony, West-side-story

Fuse Movie Review: Boston’s MFA Presents a Film Festival of Colorful Song and Dance

Boston’s MFA should be congratulated for screening these Technicolor musicals in way that does wondrous justice to their eye-popping colors.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: hollywood, Meet Me in St Louis, Museum of Fine Arts, musicals, Paul Dervis, Season of Color, Technicolor, The Music Man, West-side-story

Concert/Film Review: “West Side Story” On the Big Screens at Tanglewood

To my ears, the Boston Symphony Orchestra—supplemented by saxophones, guitar, and mandolin—sounded overblown and unbalanced, oddly tinny at times (perhaps because of the amplification), glorious at others.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Film, Music, Popular Music, Theater Tagged: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Culture Vulture, David Newman, Tanglewood, West-side-story

Book Review: Working with Bernstein

Working with Bernstein: A Memoir by Jack Gottlieb. Amadeus Press, 370 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Caldwell Titcomb A strong case can be made that the late Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was the all-round greatest musician our country has produced—virtuoso pianist, composer of both classical and popular music, the most charismatic conductor of his century, acclaimed educator […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Books, Classical Music, Featured, Music, Theater, World Books Tagged: American, conductor, Jack Gottlieb, Leonard Berstein, musical, Opera, West-side-story

Theater Review: “West Side Story” at 50

By Caldwell Titcomb It was something of a scandal a half century ago when West Side Story lost the best -musical Tony award to the mediocre and formulaic The Music Man. But time has a way of righting major mistakes. And the pervading verdict now places West Side Story at the pinnacle of the American […]

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Theater Tagged: American-musical, Boston-conservatory-theatre-Ensemble, Caldwell-Titcomb, Jerome-Robbins, Leonard-Bernsterin, Stephen-Sondheim, Theater, West-side-story

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