6 Aug: The week's best BBC Proms

By Claudia Pritchard on 6/8/2018

A feat of musical memory, drama with the Jets and the Sharks, and an invitation to children to come and play

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Packed with top numbers – 'America', 'Tonight', 'Maria' – Leonard Bernstein's musical with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim caught the composer (pictured) at the top of his inventive powers. A free introductory talk by Sondheim's official biographer David Benedict, at Imperial College at 6.15PM, goes behind the scenes of this modern classic.

Click here for more details. One of the BBC Proms Best Musicals, Opera and Oratorio