{"id":8932,"date":"2019-03-11T01:39:10","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T06:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=8932"},"modified":"2019-03-11T04:07:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T09:07:06","slug":"music-for-monday-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=8932","title":{"rendered":"music for monday: &#8216;america&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I shared with a song from one of the cds I bought at our bookstore&#8217;s member sale. Today, I thought I&#8217;d share a song off the other.<\/p>\n<p>New York City jazz instrumentalist and composer <a href=\"http:\/\/bobbysanabria.com\">Bobby Sanabria<\/a> has reimagined the soundtrack to <em>West Side Story<\/em> by emphasizing and emboldening the Latin American musical roots of story. The bones of Leonard Bernstein&#8217;s score is still there, but it&#8217;s now more authentically Puerto Rican thanks to the 21-piece Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re familiar at all with the movie or show (and probably even if you aren&#8217;t), you&#8217;ll know &#8220;America.&#8221; But maybe this &#8220;America&#8221; is a more representative one:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kEkxGVx3TUc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If you like what you hear, this mostly instrumental version of <em>West Side Story Reimagined<\/em> is <a href=\"http:\/\/bobbysanabria.com\/music\/west-side-story-reimagined\/\">for sale<\/a> as both a double cd and as a download. 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