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By Dan Ouellette, Senior Editor ZEALnyc, August 7, 2018
"Last year marked the 60th birthday of composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein’s classic Broadway show West Side Story, famously made into a 10 Academy Award-winning movie version in 1961 starring among others the Puerto Rico-born actress Rita Moreno. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Maestro Bernstein’s birth. The tragic romantic storyline (based on Romeo and Juliet) that pitted two rival gangs in New York proved to be the first noteworthy representation of the Puerto Rican community in New York…”
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