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19 January 2013

Jerome Robbins hits the bull’s-eye

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West Side Story “Prologue,” Jerome Robbins’s brilliant storytelling through dance to Leonard Bernstein’s tremendous original score. [...]

10 November 2011

Genius. West Side Story.

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Seeing West Side Story projected properly for perhaps the first-time ever … [...]

14 September 2011

Line-up of geniuses: West Side Story’s Broadway creative/production team

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Portrait of the creative team behind the Broadway staging of “West Side Story” [...]

28 June 2011

George Chakiris remembers West Side Story in advance of 50th anniversary screening @ Hollywood Bowl

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Prior to next week’s “West Side Story” night at the Hollywood Bowl — a screening of the ten-Oscar-winning, Bernstein-Robbins-Sondheim-Laurent film celebrating its 50th year anniversary — it’s a great pleasure to post L.A. renaissance guy Tom Gregory’s lovely interview with Bernardo, er… the wonderful George Chakiris. [...]

25 September 2010

Upcoming: NEA classical music institute in NYC

arts·meme is proud to announce her participation in the seventh NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera, October 9 – 19 at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. [...]

23 February 2010

Leonard Bernstein meets Sharon Farber @ Pacific Serenades

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Pacific Serenades debuts a chamber work by Israeli born composer Sharon Farber on March 6, 2010. [...]

13 February 2009

Jerome Robbins in your living room

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Celebrating the choreography of Jerome Robbins and ballet dancers Violette Verdy and Edward Villella. [...]