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32 S P R I N G 2 0 2 3 I C A S Q U A R T E R L Y able to bring forward a lot of detail in the scoring and orchestration that you never heard before. I was wondering which orchestrations they used. I know Bernstein was unable to orchestrate the Broadway show, but was happy with it, but he wasn't happy with the original movie orchestrations. Did you go back to the Broadway, the theatrical, or were they rearranged? No, it was mostly the Broadway orchestrations. Dave Newman was our music director and is a real expert on that material. He's conducted live versions of it all and is familiar with both the Broadway and the film. It's true that Bernstein didn't care for the film. Everything was puffed out for the earlier film, even though it was the same guys, Sid Raymond and Irwin Kostal. If it was originally six violins, now it's 30! A lot of composers would be happy about that! But I do know they went to some ridiculous number of baritone saxophones, like five instead of one. Producer/arranger David Newman and the New York Philharmonic during the recording of West Side Story.