Leonard – or 'Lenny' – Bernstein was an American composer, conductor and pianist ... a musical you may have heard of: 'West Side Story'. The 'Mambo' comes from this high-energy musical.

I truly believe there’s a reason why we tell ourselves the same stories over and over again. It’s because we haven’t learned ...

(JTA) — Stephen Sondheim, the Jewish lyricist and composer who redefined the American ... lyrics to Leonard Bernstein’s score for “West Side Story” in 1957, at age 27.

He also served as a musical consultant, working again with Speilberg on the remake of West Side Story in 2021. The legendary ...

he became known as a composer too and wrote all different types of music including symphonies, musicals, operas and films. Perhaps his biggest success was with his musical West Side Story - a re ...