Bernstein’s ‘Wonderful Town’: ‘Ohio’

Here’s some more little-known Bernstein. His 1953 musical “Wonderful Town,” with lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, was based on the popular play called “My Sister Eileen,” which tells the story of two sisters from Ohio who come to New York to pursue careers as a writer and an actress. They move into a dumpy Greenwich Village basement and shortly after arriving there sing this song, longing for home.

Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic, with singers Kim Criswell and Audra McDonald. –TM