Annotation
penultimate orchestral piece, begins with a reprise of the "Mambo" segment from the "Dance at the Gym" and continues further with "America", ending with the gunshot that eventually kills Tony (in the finale).
Relationships
| composer: | Leonard Bernstein |
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| part of: | West Side Story (order: 19) |
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| quotes music from: | West Side Story: America West Side Story: The Dance at the Gym: Mambo |
Recordings
| Date | Title | Attributes | Artist | Length |
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| recordings | ||||
| 1961-04-11 | Taunting Scene | Stan Kenton | 3:57 | |
| 1984-09-07 | West Side Story: No. 16: Taunting Scene | Leonard Bernstein | 1:25 | |
| 1993 | Taunting Scene | Brian Greene, Caroline O’Connor, National Symphony Orchestra, John Owen Edwards | 2:47 | |
| 1993 | Taunting Scene (West Side Story, 1993 London studio cast) | partial | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth | 0:56 |
| 2001 | West Side Story: Taunting Scene | Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Schermerhorn | 1:07 | |
| 2013-06-27 – 2013-07-02 | West Side Story: Act II. Jukebox, Taunting Scene | live | San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas | 2:26 |