Bernstein: West Side Story - I. Prologue - Leonard Bernstein

The Neighborhood — The months before

(The opening, half danced half mimed, is a

condensationof the growing rivalry between

two teenage gangs.

The Sharks are Puerto Ricans,

the Jets an anthology of whatis called 'American'.

The Jets want to hold on to their territory

and clean out the Sharks in a rumble.)