I greatly appreciate the many hundreds of hours that went into making this musical come to life. I'm Puerto Rican-American and I do recall that there was great resistance to our coming to the US even though we were citizens, ourselves. Despite the language and cultural differences, our desires, goals and our attitudes were more similar than they were different. Bernstein's composition of Westside Story has endured, and will continue to do so for generations to come. Great thanks to all the performers, musicians and crewmembers who put their talents together to help Leonard Burstein's vision come to life.
ok he was scary here hahah. I totally get Carreras but when he started singing Ill never stop saying Carreras reminds me of a scary teacher I once had hahah
Unbelievable. The stage and screen singers managed to nail it. Perhaps he was too accustomed to conductors following HIM when he sings in the opera halls...?
@@Ramznet The casting of Carreras was something of a mistake. It's not so much that he has a poor sense of rhythm as that the entire idiom is foreign and uncongenial to him. He was not a facile adapter; the learning curve was too steep for him--and not just in thatbparticular song.
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Wonderful operatic voices,but sadly, it robs the piece of all its youthful vigour and street vibrancy. Troyanos was a wondrous mezzo , but this is not Anita, mellifluous music, but not West Side Story . I feel great sympathy for Carreras, English is not his first language, like Te Kanawa and Troyanos, and Bernstein’s treatment of him is not pleasant.
Who are you to say that this is not Anita? The whole production is just a different approach to the score and it´s conducted by one of the two authors. So - if Lenny could go along with it we should agree as well. Moreso as we don´t hear all of those mistakes in intonation and dynamics that we are used to when listening to non-educated singers.
Um, like any professional, Carreras was *expected* to be fully prepared, with only minor rehearsal (for interpretation/brush-up) needed. Alone of all the singers, his lack of preparation was astounding... no wonder R Bing said he was "unreliable"
Thank you for saying this. The cult of Bernstein is more powerful than ever. His treatment and belittlement of singers seems to be something they always overlook. There is a clip of him doing the same with the great mezzo Christa Ludwig. He was an ass often.
Just what "demise" would that be? His overall reception has never changed. Generally overrated by the public and generally underrated by critics, especially as a composer. I must have been in a coma for his "demise".
