West Side Story review " Bernstein's musical is out of step in concert hall
Usher Hall, EdinburghJohn Eliot Gardiner fulfilled his ambition to conduct Bernstein's work, but this concert performance should have been staged Bach not Bernstein is the composer one associates with John Eliot Gardiner. Yet here Gardiner is at the Edinburgh festival conducting Bernstein's West Side Story for the first time, apparently a long-held ambition following a night on the town with Lenny six decades ago. T…