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Leonard Bernstein’s Score for ON THE WATERFRONT
20m
In this video essay, created in 2012, critic Jon Burlingame considers the unique power of composer Leonard Bernstein’s score for ON THE WATERFRONT, the only one he ever composed for a film. Burlingame is the author of the essay “Leonard Bernstein and On the Waterfront: Tragic Nobility, a Lyrical Song, and Music of Violence.”