Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 03:25:28 GMT



On Fri, 28 Feb 97 10:18:56, keshlam@prodigy.com wrote:

>In the Sondheim song, it's definitely "mar-aye-ah", as documented
>by various recordings. (Changing it to "mar-ee-ah" would also, in
>my opinion, seriously damage the dramatic value of the original lyric.)
>
Waitaminnit, wasn't that "They Call The Wind Maria" from "Paint Your
Wagon" that was under discussion?  That was by Lerner & Loewe.
Sondheim did write the lyrics (Leonard Bernstein wrote the music) for
"Maria" in "West Side Story", and in that song, it's pronounced
"mar-ee-ah".   The Lerner & Loewe uses "mar-aye-ah".

Mark Bernstein
mxb@arbortext.com

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