The Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band –West Side
Story
Reimagined
Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 7:30PM
Matthews Theatre
Grammy-nominated drummer, composer, and Bronx-born Nuyorican Bobby Sanabria reimagines Leonard Bernstein’s iconic West Side Story through the vibrant, pulsing lens of Latin jazz.
Performed live by the electrifying Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band, this reworking—captured on the Grammy-nominated double CD West Side Story Reimagined, which also won the prestigious Jazz Journalists Association Album of the Year Award—infuses Bernstein’s score with Afro-Caribbean grooves, Puerto Rican bomba and plena, and the fierce swing of New York jazz.
With the full support of the Leonard Bernstein estate, this “painfully beautiful” production transforms each note into a powerful call for resilience, cultural pride, and unity.
The evening includes a special pre-show conversation between Bobby Sanabria and Jamie Bernstein, daughter of the legendary composer.
“What I love about Bobby Sanabria’s take is that it’s a kind of rhythm fission... exploded to an even richer rhythmic level.”