America

Name: America
Duration: 3 min 17 s

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Release artist	Release group type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
1.1	America	3:17	Canadian Brass	The Canadian Brass Plays Bernstein	Canadian Brass	Album	US2009-12-29	RCA Victor	09026-68633-2

arranger:	Chris Dedrick

recording of:	West Side Story: America (Anita, Shark Girls) (in 1996: cover, instrumental)

lyricist:	Stephen Sondheim
composer:	Leonard Bernstein (American conductor, composer, pianist)

publisher:	Jalni Publications Inc. Universal/MCA Music (music publisher; do not use as release label!) The Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Company LLC (in 1957)

referred to in medleys:	West Side Story Suite (order: 2) West Side Story Medley (Clayderman) (order: 3) West Side Story (Peter Riese arrangement) (order: 5) The-Special-Latin-Non-Stop-Disco-Mix (order: 6) The Medley of the Century (40 Tunes in 4 1/2 Minutes) (order: 40)
later parody versions:	West Side Story (live)
later translated versions:	America (West Side Story, German version) America (West Side Story, Japanese version) Amerika (West Side Story, Swedish version) Amerika je Amerika (West Side Story, Czech version) Die Melodie von Amerika
later versions:	America
part of:	West Side Story (order: 8)
is the basis for:	Beautiful America
arrangements:	"West Side Story" Suite: III. America (for violin and piano, Penaforte) America from West Side Story (for concert band, arranged by Michael Brown) West Side Story Suite for Piano Trio: III. America West Side Story Suite for Violin and Piano: III. America
music quoted in:	Don’t Tread on Me West Side Story: End Credits (2021 motion picture) West Side Story: Taunting Scene