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Music: Leonard Bernstein

Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim

Book: Arthur Laurents

Carol Lawrence and Larry Kert star in the 1957 original-cast recording of West Side Story. This is my favorite of the various recordings of this music, but each of the recordings has interesting aspects.

CD at amazon.com.

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Movie soundtrack CD at Amazon.com

Book about the 1961 movie: West Side Story: The Jets, the Sharks, and the Making of a Classic (Turner Classic Movies), by Richard Barrios, hardcover at Amazon.com

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Leonard Bernstein conducted a somewhat operatic recording with Kiri Te Kanawa and Jose Carreras. Kiri sounds as if she should be singing Anna in The King and I, and Carreras has a Spanish accent that isn't appropriate for his character. Still, the performance is pleasant.

CD, Amazon.com

CD, Amazon.co.uk

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A recording with Hayley Westenra and Vittorio Grigolo was released in 2007.

MP3, Amazon.com

CD, at Amazon.co.uk

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