"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don’t and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it." Unknown
Wednesday 7 August 2019
WEST SIDE STORY IN EDINBURGH!
My musical and artistic adventure to the Edinburgh Festival ended with a timeless love story and an electrifying spectacle performed by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra conduced by Sir John Eliot Gardiner with a hand-picked cast from Scotland and America and special guest instrumentalists drawn from the worlds of jazz and musical theatre! West Side Story is loosely based on Romeo and Juliet, and Leonard Bernstein’s wonderful score was a defining moment in musical theatre and the songs — ‘America’, ‘Maria’, ‘Tonight’, ‘Somewhere’, Something's Coming', 'One Hand, One Heart' — brought the audience to smiles, tears and at the end to their feet more than 60 years after the work’s premiere. Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducted as Bernstein originally intended, and this very special performance of this ground-breaking, irresistibly foot tapping work brought the house down!!
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