WEST SIDE STORY
Composer: Leonard
Bernstein
Lyricist: Stephen Sondheim
Opened: September
26, 1957, Winter Garden Theatre, NYC
Performances: 732 performances
(with an additional 249 performances when the show reopened on April 27,
1960)
Note: Only numbers not found on the original Broadway cast album, the expanded soundtrack, and the 1985 studio cast album conducted by Leonard Bernstein are noted below.
Entr'acte ("I Feel Pretty"):
1. West Side Story, CD/TER CDTER2
1197 (National Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Owen
Edwards)
Like Everybody Else (aka "Kids
Ain't") (cut; later used in BY BERNSTEIN):
1. Lost In Boston, CD/Varese
Sarabande VSD-5475 (Judy Malloy, Richard Roland, and Sal Viviano with musical
direction by James Stenborg)
Mix! (cut; music reused in the
"Lamah rag'shu goyim" (Psalm 2) section of the slow movement of CHICHESTER
PALMS):
1. Chichester Psalms, CBS MS 6792 (Camerata
Singers directed by Abraham Kaplan with John Bogart, alto, and the New York
Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein) [reissued on Kaddish
Symphony/Chichester Psalms, Sony SMK 60595]
2. Requiem/Chichester Psalms,
MCA Classics MCA-6199 (London Symphony Chorus with Aled Jones, treble, and the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Richard Hickox) [reissued as
CD/Griffin 4044]
3. Chichester Psalms, Deutsche Grammophon 2530968 (Wiener
Jeunesse Chor directed by Günterh Teuring with boy alto from Wiener
Sängerknaben and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Leonard
Bernstein) [reissued on CD/Deutsche Grammophon 415965-2]
4. Chichester
Psalms/Hymnus Paradisi, Bay Cities 1035 (Pacific Chorale conducted with John
Alexander)
5. Chichester Psalms, Angel (S) S 37119 (James Bowman,
counter-tenor, and the King's College Choir of Cambridge directed by Phillip
Ledger)
6. Chichester Psalms/In The Beginning/Agnus Dei, CD/Hyperion 66219
(Dominic Martelli, alto, with the Corydon Singers directed by Matthew
Best)
7. Chichester Psalms, CD/Naxos 8559177 (Bournemouth Symphony Chorus
directed by Neville Creed and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by
Marin Alsop)
8. Chichester Psalms, CD/Lammas 125 (Wells Cathedral
Choir)
9. Chichester Psalms/In The Beginning, CD/EMI 54188 (Choir of King's
College, Cambridge, led by Stephen Cleobury)
10. Chichester Psalms/I Never
Saw Another Butterfly, CD/Music Masters 60239 (The American Boychoir directed
by Robert Palmer and the American Symphony Orchestra conducted by James
Litton)
11. Kaddish/Chichester Psalms, CD/Naxos 8559456 (Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Choir directed by Ian Tracey with Michael Small, treble, the Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gerard Schwarz)
12.
Kaddish/Chichester Psalms/Missa Brevis, CD/Chandos 10172 (London Oratory School
Schola, the BBC Singers, and the BBC Symphony Chorus led by Michael McCarthy
with Pablo Strong, treble, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard
Slatkin)
13. Belshazzar's Feast/Chichester Psalms/Missa Brevis, CD/Telarc
80181 (Atlanta Symphony and Chorus conducted by Robert Shaw)
14. Chichester
Psalms/Gloria/Magnificat Antiphon/Missa Sillabica, CD/Regis 1003 (Clare College Choir, Cambridge,
led by Daan Manneke, with Ensemble Calefax and the Wallace Collection conducted
by Timothy J. Brown)
15. Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish"/Chichester Psalms,
CD/Warner Classics & Jazz 492540 (Maîtrise de Radio France led by
Denis Dupays and the French Radio Choir led by Francois Polgar with Joseph
Mills, boy soprano, and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted
by Yutaka Sado)
16. Be Glad Then, America, CD/Gloriae Dei Cantores 8
(Gloriae Dei Cantores conducted by Elizabeth C. Patterson)
17. Bernstein
& Britten, CD/Amercian Choral 123 (The Dale Warland Singers conducted by
Dale Warland)
18. Psalmy XX Wieku, CD/Accord 112 (Krakow Chamber
Choir)
19. The Papal Concert to Commemorate the Holocaust, CD/Justice 1801
(Accademia di Santa Cecilia Chorus, Capella Giulia della Basilica di San
Pietro, and the Rome Philharmonic Orchestra)
The Leonard Bernstein Audio
Materials at the Library of Congress include a number of unpublished recordings
of Chichester Psalms.
Overture (stage
version; not arranged by Bernstein but transcribed for symphony orchestra by
Maurice Peress):
1. West Side Story, CD/TER CDTER2
1197 (National Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Owen Edwards) [also found
on Overtures Of Broadway, CD/JAY CDJAY3 1230 (National Symphony Orchestra
conducted by John Owen Edwards)]
2. West Side Story, Eros (S) 8106
(orchestra conducted by Lawrence Leonard) [also 45/Saga STP 1028]. According to
sources, the following are versions of this recording, sometimes missing one or
more songs and/or arranging songs in a different order: Society (S) SOC-923;
Forum (S) SF-9045; Hi-Life Records HLS 53 (George Benson and his Theatre
Orchestra); Allegro Records ALL 763 (Russ Case and his Broadway Theatre
Orchestra); CD/Tring GRF-112-CD; CD/Show Pieces SHO 19242; CD/Riverboat Music
DHM065; CD/Musical Collection/Bellevue Entertainment 8519-2 (The Highlight
Orchestra and Singers); CD/Intersound/Platinum Entertainment Inc. 2708 (The
42nd Street Singers); CD/The Collection OP0007 (The London Theatre Orchestra
and Singers); CD/Quality Entertainment Division QED088; CD/Double Play 113;
CD/Going For A Song 218 (Stage Door Orchestra); CD/Laserlight 32 683 (Musical
Stage Company]
3. West Side Story, International Award Series
(S)AKS-255/(M) AK-255 (orchestra conducted by Dean Franconi (possibly a
pseudonym for Al Goodman) [later reissued pseudoymously crediting Abbot Mason]
[see also Design Records DLP-167 (The Sound Stage Orchestra conducted by Dean
Franconi); Stereo Spectrum SDLP-167; Hurrah HS-1054] (unverified)
4. West
Side Story, Music For Pleasure MFP (S) 1256 (Alyn Ainsworth Orchestra)
(unverified)
5. West Side Story, Music For Pleasure MFP (M) 1070 (Alyn
Ainsworth Orchestra) (unverified)
6. West Side Story, World Records (M)
T-177 (Orchestra conducted by Kenneth Allwyn) [see also 10"/Ariola (S) 34 100]
(unverified)
7. West Side Story, Rondo-lette (S) SA 132 (Orchestra conducted
by Ira Wright) [also found on Songs And Music of West Side Story, Ed Sullivan's
Stereo Library Of The World's Greatest Music (S) ESS-1000] (unverified)
8.
West Side Story, Guilde International du Disque M-2254 (Broadway Musical
Society) (unverified)
9. West Side Story, Two: Dot (S) SMHSA 72269 (Youth
Theatre Productions orchestra directed by Terrence Boyes) (unverified)
N.B.
Most of the unverified recordings above likely contain the "Prologue"
mislabeled as the "Overture."
Unrecorded
Songs:
Atom Bomb Baby (Mambo)
(unfinished; music used in "Blues" section of the "Dance At The Gym"
sequence)
My Greatest Day! (cut; early version of "Jet Song")
Once In
Your Life (cut; early version of "I Have A Love")
This Turf Is Ours (cut;
replacement for "My Greatest Day!")
Up To The Moon (cut; sung version of the
instrumental "Prologue")