Why West Side Story is a Masterpiece

Who could have thought that you could do so much with so little?

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Edit: I meant to say that Anita and Maria were to-be sister-in-laws, not sisters!
Because if Anita had eventually married Bernardo then the two would have been sister-in-laws, but somehow that line didn't make it from the script to the final recording.
Oops!


Sources:

West Side Story: The Tritone and the 7th
https://www.fromscoretostage.com/sing...

There's a Place for Us: The Musical Theatre Works of Leonard Bernstein
https://books.google.com/books?id=sgI...

Modeling Compositional Grammars in Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story (1957)
https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi...

WEST SIDE STORY Analysis
http://wssprologue.blogspot.com/

West Side Story: How Music Creates Racial Tension
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