Broadway Orchestra

Broadway: Music from West Side Story

by Jack Bowers
April 3, 2004

A pleasant enough hour of songs gleaned from Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking musical of 1957 and gracefully performed by Broadway, a well-ordered quartet whose melodic aspects rest largely in the capable hands of flautist Ali Ryerson.

While I’d have preferred to hear the occasional fanfare for brass and winds, or romantic interlude for full string section, Broadway makes the most of what it has, relying for the most part on Ryerson to state the theme while pianist Rex Cadwallader, bassist ...