To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that...
This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
1.ACT I  Outside the Brooklyn Navy Yard, workmen are starting their day. Three  sailors rush out to launch their twenty-four hours' leave in New York City. 2.I Feel Like I'm Not Out of Bed Yet ...
ACT I 1. Prologue The Neighborhood - The months before (The opening, half danced half mimed, is a condensation of the growing rivalry between two teenage gangs. The Sharks are Puerto Ricans, the Jets...