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Recording Details

Date: 1958
Type: Audio / Instrumental Album
Method: Studio
Language: English
Music: Leroy Anderson (13), Harold Arlen (576), Irving Berlin (711), Leonard Bernstein (491), Gene de Paul (78), Burton Lane (256), Cole Porter (925), Jule Styne (541)
Lyrics: Irving Berlin (711), Betty Comden (239), Adolph Green (246), E.Y. Harburg (355), Cole Porter (925), Leo Robin (213)
Producer: Irving Townsend (15)
Liner Notes: Lehman Engel (116)
Conductor: Lehman Engel (116)
Shortcode: [r6797]

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Releases (3)

Title: Another Openin', Another Show
Format: CD
Label: Sony Broadway SK 53540
Released: 1993
Barcode: 074645354026
Audio: Stereo
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# Tracks: 12
Length: 58:12
Lists: 32 collectors / 4 wish lists
History: 1 Revisions
Shortcode: [rl9058]

1. Overture (from Bloomer Girl)
2. Overture (from On The Town)
3. Overture (from Finian's Rainbow)
4. Overture (from Kiss Me, Kate)
5. Overture (from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
6. Overture (from Call Me Madam)
7. Overture (from Wonderful Town)
8. Overture (from Can-Can)
9. Overture (from Silk Stockings)
10. Overture (from Li'l Abner)
11. Overture (from Bells Are Ringing)
12. Overture (from Goldilocks)

Title: Bernstein Conducts Bernstein (The Original Jacket Collection)
Format: 10-CD
Label: Sony Classics 727988
Released: 2008-08-05
Barcode: 886972798820
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Also Contains: Bernstein Conducts Bernstein - 1960 New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Bernstein Conducts Symphonic Dances from West Side Story and Symphonic Suite from On The Waterfront - 1961 New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Mass - 1971 Original Cast
On the Town - 1960 Broadway Studio Cast
Three Dance Episodes from On the Town - 1963 New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Trouble in Tahiti - 1973 TV Cast
Lists: 5 collectors / 0 wish lists
History: 1 Revisions
Shortcode: [rl33052]

Format: CD
Label: Sony SK 60538
Released: 1998-09-15
Barcode: 0074646053829
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Also Contains: On the Town - 1960 Broadway Studio Cast
Three Dance Episodes from On the Town - 1963 New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Liner Notes: Didier C. Deutsch (161)
Producer: Thomas Z. Shepard (123)
# Tracks: 17
Lists: 171 collectors / 1 wish list
History: 2 Revisions
Shortcode: [rl218]

1. Opening: New York, New York
I Feel Like I'm Not Out of Bed Yet -- Michael Kermoyan
New York, New York -- Adolph Green, John Reardon, Cris Alexander, Chorus
Dance: Miss Turnstiles' Variations -- Orchestra
2. Taxi Number: Come Up To My Place -- Nancy Walker, Cris Alexander
3. Carried Away -- Betty Comden, Adolph Green
4. Lonely Town -- John Reardon
Dance: Lonely Town -- Orchestra
5. Carnegie Hall (Do-Do-Re-Do) -- Chorus
6. I Can Cook, Too -- Nancy Walker
7. Lucky To Be Me - John Reardon, Chorus
8. Dance: Times Square -- Orchestra
9. Nightclub Sequence:
A. So Long Baby -- Chorus
B. I'm Blue -- Nightclub Singer
C. Ya Got Me - Nancy Walker, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Cris Alexander
10. I Understand -- George Gaynes
11. Ballet: The Imaginary Coney Island -- Orchestra
A. Subway Ride
B. Dance of the Great Lover
C. Pas De Deux
12. Some Other Time - Betty Comden, Nancy Walker, Adolph Green, Cris Alexander
13. Dance: The Real Coney Island -- Leonard Bernstein, Orchestra
Finale -- Ensemble
14. Overture -- Orchestra Conducted by Lehman Engel
Three Dance Episodes from On the Town
15. I. The Great Lover -- The New York Philharmonic, Conducted by Leonard Bernstein
16. II. Lonely Town: Pas De Deux -- The New York Philharmonic, Conducted by Leonard Bernstein
17. III. Times Square: 1944 -- The New York Philharmonic, Conducted by Leonard Bernstein