The Musical Play Expands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14801223 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Larry Stempel (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 136 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Music (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-4392 • E-ISSN: 1945-2349 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3051722 |
| OpenAlex | W2320500517 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
For me what was important about West Side Story was in our aspiration. I wanted to find out at that time how far we, as long-haired artists, could go in bringing our crafts and talents to a musical. Why did we have to do it separately and elsewhere? Why did Lenny [Bernstein] have to write an opera, Arthur [Laurents] a play, me a ballet? Why couldn't we, in aspiration, try to bring our deepest talents together to the commercial theater in this work? That was the true gesture of the show
Acoustics · Aesthetics · Art · Ballet · Dance · Gesture · Linguistics · Literature · Musical · Opera · Percussion · Visual arts · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Philosophy · Theater, Performance, and Music History
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2024 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |