Friday, September 28, 2007
'West Side Story', Around the World
NPR: "Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of the first staging of the Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents musical West Side Story. It's been performed globally and translated into languages as diverse as Czech and Korean."
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Now I really want to listen to the longer story.
It's really interesting how music changes when translated. Something that usually sounds smooth can take on a completely different tone or mood in another language. And yet, you notice just how much meaning is conveyed by the instruments alone, since the overall tone of the song stays the same from one language to another. It makes me wonder what the literal translations are from all of he different languages. It's also amazing how much you can understand of a completely foreign language when you know what words to listen for and what it translates into.
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