the scores for candied particularly west side story are still ahead of their time great. work wasn't together and. that's a plus. it's really. i never heard of it all together by laurie. they obviously wanted desperately to break it as a composer more than anything he wanted to make it as a composer but the other thing that he says in his letters which he didn't generally say elsewhere to very close friends he'd say the trouble is i just love conducting so much how can i say no to conducting you know modest ninth if it's going to give me a couple of weeks to compose when i know i'm not going to get anything finished any .