SSO Pops Concert: Leonard Bernstein at 100 - West Side Story - Film With Live Orchestra

13 Apr 2018, Fri Singapore Symphony Orchestra Joshua Tan, conductor West Side Story® AssociatesSM presents

WEST SIDE STORY MIRISCH PICTURES Presents “WEST SIDE STORY” A ROBERT WISE Production Starring NATALIE WOOD RICHARD BEYMER RUSS TAMBLYN RITA MORENO GEORGE CHAKIRIS Directed by ROBERT WISE & JEROME ROBBINS Screenplay by ERNEST LEHMAN Associate Producer SAUL CHAPLIN Choreography by JEROME ROBBINS Music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM Based upon the Stage Play Produced by ROBERT E. GRIFFITH and HAROLD S. PRINCE Book by ARTHUR LAURENTS Play Conceived, Directed and Choreographed by JEROME ROBBINS Film Production Designed by BORIS LEVEN Music Conducted by JOHNNY GREEN Presented by MIRISCH PICTURES, lNC. ln Association with SEVEN ARTS PRODUCTIONS lNC. Filmed in PANAVISION® TECHNICOLOR®

Film screening of West Side Story courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios lnc.

WEST SIDE STORY © 1961 Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios lnc. All Rights Reserved.

West Side Story is available on Blu-ray DVD and all digital platforms.

Tonight’s program is a presentation of the complete film West Side Story with live performance of the film’s entire score. The program runs 2 hours and 34 minutes, plus an intermission. It also includes the underscoring played by the orchestra during the Saul Bass-designed End Credits. We ask that, out of respect for the music, for the musicians playing it and for your fellow audience members, you remain in your seats until the End Credits are completed.

Concert duration: 3 hrs (with 20-minutes intermission)

S ing a p or e S y mp hon y Or c he s t r a ‘A fine display of orchestral bravado for the SSO and Shui’ The Guardian

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673-seat Victoria Concert Hall, the home of the SSO. The orchestra performs 100 concerts a year, and its versatile repertoire spans alltime favourites and orchestral masterpieces to exciting cutting-edge premieres. Bridging the musical traditions of East and West, Singaporean and Asian musicians and composers are regularly showcased in the concert season. This has been a core of the SSO’s programming philosophy from the very beginning under Choo Hoey, who was Music Director from 1979 to 1996.

Since Lan Shui assumed the position of Music Director in 1997, the SSO has performed in Europe, Asia and the United States. In May 2016 the SSO was invited to perform at the Dresden Music Festival and the Prague Spring International Music Festival. This successful five‑city tour of

Germany and Prague also included the SSO’s return to the Berlin Philharmonie after six years.

In 2014 the SSO’s debut at the 120th BBC Proms in London received critical acclaim in the major UK newspapers The Guardian and Telegraph. The SSO has also performed in China on multiple occasions.

Notable SSO releases under BIS include a Rachmaninov series, a “Seascapes” album, two Debussy discs “La Mer” and “Jeux”, and the first-ever cycle of Tcherepnin’s piano concertos and symphonies. The SSO has also collaborated with such great artists as Lorin Maazel, Charles Dutoit, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Neeme Järvi, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Diana Damrau, Lang Lang, Yo-Yo Ma, Janine Jansen, Leonidas Kavakos and Gil Shaham.

JO SHU A TAN conductor

Second Prize winner of the 2008 Dimitri Mitropoulos International Competition, Singaporean conductor Joshua Tan’s rise to prominence has been marked by successful debuts in Carnegie Hall, Philharmonie Berlin, Mariinsky Hall, Bunkamura, Shanghai, Beijing and Taiwan. He was featured as the top Singaporean musical talent in 2009 (Lianhe Zaobao) and has won numerous awards and scholarships, including the Bruno Walter Memorial Foundation Award, NAC-Shell Scholarship, SSO/MOE Scholarship and the Charles Schiff Conducting Prize from The Juilliard School for outstanding achievement. In 2011, he received the Young Artist Award of Singapore.

Tan has studied with leading conductors James DePreist, Charles Dutoit, David Zinman and Kurt Masur. He has conducted the Beethoven Bonn Orchestra, National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) Orchestra, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and many more orchestras worldwide.

In opera, Tan has conducted La traviata, Tosca, Rigoletto, Carmen, Don Giovanni, Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly, Turandot amongst others. He was also cover conductor for Christoph Eschenbach and Lorin Maazel. Adept at working with film/multimedia, Tan is a Disneyapproved conductor and gave the Asian premiere of Fantasia. He has also conducted for the BBC’s Planet Earth Series.

Tan is presently Associate Conductor of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. He was Resident Conductor, NCPA Orchestra from 2009 to 2012 and Principal Conductor, Guiyang Symphony Orchestra from 2013 to 2017. Highlights of the 2017/18 season include Giselle in Tokyo, L’elisir d’amore, Bernstein’s Mass and a performance of the complete West Side Story with film for the centenary in Singapore amongst others. Overseeing a special initiative, Joshua is also Director for the Asia Virtuosi since 2017, an annual festival orchestra which comprises of leading professional orchestral musicians from different orchestras in Asia. Tan is a graduate of The Juilliard School and the Eastman School of Music (High Distinction).

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W e s t Side S tor y More than 50 years after the release of its internationally beloved screen adaptation, the winner of 10 Academy Awards, West Side Story continues to enthral audiences.

In 1955, a conducting engagement at the Hollywood Bowl brought the then 36-year-old composer Leonard Bernstein to Los Angeles. That August, a chance meeting at the Beverly Hills Hotel with playwright Arthur Laurents reignited the two artists’ stalled plan to collaborate on a musical.

Seven years earlier, choreographer/director Jerome Robbins had approached Bernstein with what the composer called in his diary “a noble idea: a modern version of Romeo and Juliet set in slums at the coincidence of EasterPassover celebrations. Feelings run high between Jews and Catholics…

Street brawls, double death – it all fits.” The idea lay dormant until that day in 1955, when an L.A. newspaper headline about Latino gang problems inspired an exciting new path. With the hiring of 25-year-old composer Stephen Sondheim, who reluctantly signed on to provide lyrics only, the final pieces fell into place.

After two years of rewriting and struggles to raise financing, West Side Story’s 1957 Broadway opening elicited reactions that ranged from passionate raves to stunned walk-outs. The latter were sparked by the musical’s depiction of gang warfare and prejudice, and its near unprecedented body count for a musical on the Great White Way. The show was largely snubbed at the Tony Awards in favour of a more accessible rival, The Music Man. Nevertheless, audiences in New York and London (where the show was an instant hit) quickly caught up with the innovations of Robbins’ explosive, character-driven choreography, Laurents’ ingenious transposition of Shakespeare, and the thrilling Bernstein score, with lyrics by Sondheim that included “Tonight” and “Maria.” When Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise joined forces to co-direct the 1961 screen version for United Artists, starring box office favorite Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer (The Diary of Anne Frank), the result was one of the decade’s greatest commercial and critical triumphs.

The film’s co-stars, George Chakiris (Bernardo) and Rita Moreno (Anita), took home Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor and Actress. Their victories were echoed by Oscars for Best Art Direction — Set Decoration, Color; Best Cinematography, Color; Best Costume Design, Color (winner Irene Sharaff also worked on the Broadway original); Best Film Editing; Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture; Best Sound; Best Director (for both Robbins and Wise, the first time this award was shared); and Best Picture. Jerome Robbins also received an honorary Academy Award “for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film.”

Half a century after its original release, West Side Story the motion picture will be presented tonight in a format that brings its own innovations. MGM has created a restored, high-definition print of the film that reveals details unseen since 1961. A new sound technology developed by Paris-based Audionamix and utilized by Chace Audio by Deluxe, one of the film industry’s top restoration companies, has isolated vocal tracks from the feature, using new source-separation technology that separates elements within a monophonic soundtrack.

In the case of West Side Story, Audionamix “taught” its technology to recognise and then remove orchestral elements on the soundtrack while retaining vocals, dialogue, and effects. This allows tonight’s conductor, Joshua Tan, to accompany the vocals with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, in a live performance of the complete Bernstein score with the film.

Although the original musical materials for the movie arrangements were lost, 14 months of research by Eleonor M. Sandresky of The Leonard Bernstein Office brought to light a trove of important finds in private collections and library archives around the country. From materials discovered in the papers of orchestrator Sid Ramin, as well as in the archives of conductor/music supervisor Johnny Green, director Robert Wise, and producer Walter Mirisch, she was able to assemble a mock-up short score of the complete film. Garth Edwin Sunderland, Senior Music Editor for the Bernstein Office, restored and adapted the orchestration for live performance. At the same time, Sunderland oversaw the creation of a brand new engraving of the entire film score, right down to last-minute modifications made on the scoring stage in 1961.

The final result is a presentation of West Side Story that celebrates the best in American music and the best of Hollywood filmmaking – two categories in which West Side Story will forever reside.

Notes by Steven Smith (adapted for Singapore Symphony Orchestra) Steven Smith is an Emmy-nominated documentary producer, journalist, and author of the biography “A Heart at Fire’s Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann”

PRODU CTION CRE DIT S Producer: Paul H. Epstein for The Leonard Bernstein Office, lnc.

Associate Producer: Eleonor M. Sandresky for The Leonard Bernstein Office, lnc.

Production Supervisor: Steven A. Linder Technical Director: Mike Runice Sound Engineer: Matt Yelton Music Supervision: Garth Edwin Sunderland Original Orchestrations: Leonard Bernstein, Sid Ramin, lrwin Kostal Additional orchestrations: Garth Edwin Sunderland & Peter West Music Preparation: Peter West Original manuscript reconstruction: Eleonor M. Sandresky Technical Consultant: Laura Gibson Soundtrack Adaptation – Chace Audio by Deluxe: Robert Heiber, Chris Reynolds, Andrew Starbin, Alice Taylor Sound Separation Technology provided by Audionamix Click Tracks and Streamers created by: Kristopher Carter and Mako Sujishi With special thanks to: Arthur Laurents and his Estate, Stephen Sondheim, The Robbins Rights Trust, The Johnny Green Collection at Harvard University, The Sid Ramin Collection at Columbia University, The Robert Wise Collection at the University of Southern California, Lawrence A. Mirisch, David Newman, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios lnc., MGM HD, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC, Ken Hahn and Sync Sound

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Bernstein’s most ambitious composition, Mass is a music-theatrical tussle between Broadway singing and church choruses, rock and roll and brassy symphonic dances. With a cast of 200 performers, don’t miss this rare performance of Bernstein’s monumental pageant!

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