Living Strings - Living Strings Play Music from West Side Story '1969

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Take Shakespeare’s most beloved story, set down a modem Romeo and Juliet
in the teeming turmoil of 20th-century New York, add music that is sometimes
serious, sometimes sweet, always scintillating and pure magic... and you have a
success. Music and theater lovers have been analyzing the success secrets of
West Side Story since it opened on Broadway in 1957. But the fact is. by now
“West Side Story” needs no further analysis. It simply is. And what
it is is a modem classic.
Now. a beautiful new version of West Side Story is bom as the Living Strings
recreate the magic of its music with their rich and wonderful sounds. Johnny
Douglas arranged and conducted, giving a lush, lovely new life to every number.
The result: sensitive subtleties and a sweeping splendor to delight the most
avid West Side Story fans—and anyone else who loves great music.
Recall your own favorites:
The excitement of the beginnings of deep, young love in Somethings Coming. The
Dance in the Gym that prefaces the meeting of two ill-fated lovers. Maria, one
of the most touching modem tribute-., to a woman who is loved.
Remember the charm, wit and wonder of the island girls who have finally
discovered America. And the more penetrating wonder of two people who recognize
love—Tonight. The unsophisticated amazement of the lovely girl who
finally feels needed and expresses it in I Feel Pretty.
Never has a wedding ceremony been more beautifully enacted than in One Hand, One
Heart. Nor has the ugliness of the street fight been more poetically portrayed
than in The Rumble.
Finally, prejudice (A Boy Like That) loses the battle to love (1 Have a Love).
And two young innocents look forward to the time and the place where hatred is
banished and only love lives. Somewhere.
It will move you. It may anger you. It will make you smile. But this newest West
Side Story will not leave you untouched.
The music stands on its own. But only the Living Strings can put such depth and
so much of the beautiful dream into it. Their music seems to come from a
special, wondrous place. Perhaps from Somewhere.

Tracklist:
01 - Living Strings - Introduction and Somethings Coming (3:30) 
02 - Living Strings - Dance In the Gym (3:15) 
03 - Living Strings - America (2:30) 
04 - Living Strings - Maria (3:48) 
05 - Living Strings - Tonight (4:01) 
06 - Living Strings - I Feel Pretty (2:43) 
07 - Living Strings - One Hand, One Heart (3:24) 
08 - Living Strings - The Rumble (2:45) 
09 - Living Strings - Medley: A Boy Like That / I Have a Love (4:39) 
10 - Living Strings - Somewhere (3:59)

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