Scottish Chamber Orchestra West Side Story
7月31日(水)
|The Usher Hall
A timeless love story; an electrifying spectacle. Jets versus Sharks. Loosely based on Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story is a cultural phenomenon.
日時・場所
2019年7月31日 19:00 – 2019年8月06日 23:00
The Usher Hall, Lothian Rd, Edinburgh EH1 2EA, UK
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SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA / SIR JOHN ELIOT GARDINER
A timeless love story; an electrifying spectacle. Jets versus Sharks. Loosely based on Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story is a cultural phenomenon.
A timeless love story; an electrifying spectacle. New York City, 1950s. Jets versus Sharks. Two rival gangs fight for control of the Upper West Side. Against the backdrop of violence, two teenagers fall in love. Loosely based on Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story became a cultural phenomenon. Leonard Bernstein’s score was a defining moment in musical theatre and its sensational songs — ‘America’, ‘Maria’, ‘Tonight’, ‘Somewhere’ — still thrill more than 60 years after the work’s premiere.
It has a strong personal resonance, too, for period performance pioneer Sir John Eliot Gardiner, for whom Bernstein was a formative influence early in his career.
He conducts an augmented Broadway theatre scoring as Bernstein originally intended, with a young, hand-picked…