Deryk Barker writes:

>IMHO nobody who participated in a "rock" version of Bernstein's America
>which took the 6/8 original and cast it into 4/4 has any claim to respect
>from classical musicians.

Actually, I dimly recall from the piano-vocal score the song's meter is
duple, with "jazz triplets." Why, I don't know, since the rhythm is, as
Deryk points out, far better suited to 6/8.

I'm probably wrong.

Steve Schwartz