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Romeo and Juliet in Classical Music

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

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The Rumble From West Side Story

Bernstein and his modernist style writes something remarkably classical here in the midst of this Broadway musical comedy. Those propulsive rhythms in the strings underneath that tritone that pervades the work even in its love scenes could be taken straight out of percophia. And that use of the tritone shows off just how underrated Bernstein was as a composer. He's able to transform that simple tritone from this... to this...

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