smoke on your pipe and put that in

Last night I talked about West Side Story and I'm going to elaborate more this evening. I think I was seven years old the first time I saw the film, but I honestly don't remember much beyond the music and the colors. It wasn't until the high schools performed it when I was ten that I really understood the story or the characters. To this day that is the only live production of the play I've seen, and I would like it to remain so.

I've seen the film countless times since then and the music never fails to blow me away. Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim: does it get any better than that? Add in choreographer Jerome Robbins and you've got the perfect musical.

I chose the prologue because the opening scenes for the film comprise one of my favorite cinematic sequences of all time. This is my childhood and my adolescence; everything you need to know about me you can discover in this music. So much love. ♥

"West Side Story Prologue" music by Leonard Bernstein, conducted by Johnny Green

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