My old teacher once joked that I liked the play the unplayable. Some others took that to meant that I had a penchant for difficult pieces by Ernst, Paganini or Wieniawski. While that might have been true when I was in my 20's, I find that reconstructing or resurrecting lost violin pieces is much more my thing.
In this case, I was happy to be involved in the rediscovery of an arrangement made by Leonard Bernstein of "Somehwere" from West Side Story. The complete story can be found at:
https://www.violin…
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