Essays on West Side Story
The play, “Romeo and Juliet” written by William Shakespeare back in 1594, and the film “West Side Story” filmed by Wise and Robbins back in 1957 are both pieces of art that utilise the emotions, love and hatred to create a story that still intrigues audiences ever since their debut. West Side Story is a...
Sergei Prokofiev, born 23 April 1891 in Krasne, Ukraine, was an incredibly influential Russian pianist, composer, and conductor of the 20th century. His father, also Sergei Prokofiev, was an agronomist (soil engineer) while Maria Prokofieva, his mother, was an accomplished pianist. Thus, by age five, Prokofiev had composed his first work. At age thirteen, he...
Introduction (A Brief description of the music composers.): Both Sergei Prokofiev and Leonard Bernstein were and are well known and successful music composers. Prokofiev is from the Russian Soviet and is regarded as one of the major composers and innovators of the 20th century who composed the music for Romeo and Juliet. Bernstein on the...
The goal of this paper is to analyze the issues of stereotyping in Hollywood that stem from both inequality in the casting of minority races and ethnicities, and the absence of diversity amongst Hollywood directors. The main issues will be addressed through examining the themes in and music of the film West Side Story. This...
