Bernstein (arr. Cutts) - West Side Story, Volume 1 for Flute Quintet *Musicland Publications making it all the more

making it all the more important that our Urtext edition also takes Bizet’s autograph into account

Winner National Flute Association Newly Published Music Awards 2021: Chamber music for flute

Total duration: 7’

time signatures and rhythms to provide original and varied study repertoire for teacher and pupil

The overall tonality is based on E Locrian mode with a #6

Bernstein (arr. Cutts) - West Side Story, Volume 1 for Flute Quintet *Musicland Publications making it all the moreLeonard Bernstein's West Side Story, amazingly catchy as a musical and full of Bernstein's brilliant compositional skill, is here rewritten for flute quintet (with piccolo, 2 c flutes, alto, and bass). The three works of Volume 1 skillful, elaborate transcriptions of Cool, A Boy Like That, and America take advantage of the quintet's blended sound, and the technical flexibility of the flute, to turn the three works into idiomatic flute works.