Favorite West Side Story song? - Page 2

[AADA81]

Posted: 10/8/20 at 8:41pm

Tonight (Quintet) and the 1961 film version of America are my favorites, but Tonight, Something's Coming and One Hand, One Heart are also in there.  Hell, the whole score is terrific.

[Charley Kringas Inc]

Posted: 10/9/20 at 12:02pm

I think the Mambo is some of the most exciting dance music ever written for Broadway. Something I really love about Bernstein's music is his ability to stretch it to nearly the breaking point, both melodically and rhythmically, and the Mambo is a terrific example. It comes so close to falling apart; the melody is bizarre and full of weird dissonances, and the syncopation is so extreme that it feels one beat away from being nonsensical. Both elements, though, are just held together enough to create this thrilling rubberband effect, like riding the Tilt-a-Whirl, where you're constantly being whipped back into the centre and then flung back out. It's just phenomenal, and it's also thematically relevant! The music is just like the rival gangs, meeting up and dancing on the edge of catastrophe.

[Globefan]

Posted: 12/28/20 at 6:34pm

I hope the new Spielberg film uses the extended Prologue that the original film had, rather than the short one from the stage production. 

[NameGreg]

Posted: 12/28/20 at 6:42pm

For me it would have to be America, though the movie version, which greatly improved it.

If that doesn’t count, than I’d go with Tonight.

[Globefan]

Posted: 12/28/20 at 7:18pm

NameGreg said: "For me it would have to be America, though the movie version, which greatly improved it.

If that doesn’t count, than I’d go with Tonight."

The new film is using the 1961 version of America 

[John Adams]

Posted: 12/29/20 at 6:30am

I Have a Love

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 12/29/20 at 9:23am

Just the old balcony scene. Hard for any couple to perform this poorly.

Accelerando

"Tonight, Tonight, The World is Full of Light

 With Suns and Moons All over the Place."

So many choices. This couple has been in the news lately. Sutton's concert, at which I wish I had been.

https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=vcMtoOze7-4

[hearthemsing22]

Posted: 1/2/21 at 9:32am

Would anyone judge if I said “Somethings Coming”? In my social media feed a clip popped up of a cover of the song by some in Glee and I just....fell in love.