Leonard Bernstein at 100

The New Yorker: “West Side Story” and the American Idea of Getting Along

Posted December 21, 2017

From “West Side Story” I learned about tragedy, and love, and sex—there were broken hearts all over the place, like broken glass—and the idea that things can go very, very wrong, in an instant, but that the most important thing in the world was that we all learned to get along.