1960s. This is about an hour and a half. [applause] i thought i would begin by telling you how this book came about. I am on a train from balenciaga to barcelona just a few years ago and it turns out the woman sitting next to me is not only a professor at the university of valencia but head of the press. She said i understand you were once with the embassy. I said yes. I thought to tell her some stories and she said would you write that book for us . I said sure. The fastest contract i ever got in my life. I will pass it around. This copy of the book, the spanish version, and also pass around the american version. They are somewhat different. My publisher, john hanson, who is right here and his wife jody who is out here. Here in the United States, they do wonderful things, wonderful creative publishing especially in a world where nobody reads anymore or very few do but you do so i am glad you are here tonight. After it came out in spain, in spanish, the university of balenciaga came ou
The cinematic musical if you look at the dna, theres always a kind of code or a language thats specific to the time theyre in. When youre a jet, youre a jet all the way from your first cigarette to your last dying day west side story is shakespeare in the streets of new york. It has a code that was both old and completely new. With west side story, the music has this kind of jazz influence, discordant aspect. You can feel it. Its like sparking in the air. And the moves are very angular and sort of almost architectural. West side story was a big broadway hit created by Arthur Lawrence and Stephen Sondheim and leonard bernstein, who were some of the greatest musical geniuses working at the time. They actually enlisted jerome robbins, who created the choreography and directed the original broadway production, to direct this film along with robert wise. Everybody was transported by west side story. It was wildly romantic. It was the romeo and juliet story, but told with such urgency. Come
The cinematic musical if you look at the dna, theres always a kind of code or a language thats specific to the time theyre in. When youre a jet, youre a jet all the way from your first cigarette to your last dying day west side story is shakespeare in the streets of new york. It has a code that was both old and completely new. With west side story, the music has this kind of jazz influence, discordant aspect. You can feel it. Its like sparking in the air. And the moves are very angular and sort of almost architectural. West side story was a big broadway hit created by Arthur Lawrence and Stephen Sondheim and leonard bernstein, who were some of the greatest musical geniuses working at the time. They actually enlisted jerome robbins, who created the choreography and directed the original broadway production, to direct this film along with robert wise. Everybody was transported by west side story. It was wildly romantic. It was the romeo and juliet story, but told with such urgency. Come
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