Song – CACOPHONY

118. Songs from the greatest ever musical! Bernstein, West Side Story

10/06/2022 by Steve

Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (Cacophony ep.117) features the driving funky rhythms at the expense of the wit, poetry and driving funky rhythms of the song numbers… so this episode features four of my favourites. Listening time 22 mins.… Listen

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91. Songs of lost love and lost youth – Butterworth, A Shropshire Lad

10/07/2021 by Steve

I get floored every time by these six songs of lost youth, love and life written on the cusp of World War 1 by a young composer who didn’t make it through. Raw, simple and unforgettable. Listening time: 21 mins … Listen