The action music is surprisingly lively and boistrous (I say surprising only because Bernstein was 77 when he wrote it, but I
suppose that's a fairly silly thing for me to have thought); there's a beautiful love theme, though it appears only very
briefly on this album; some amusing comedy music that conforms to Bernstein's old model of scoring comedy as
if it were the most earnest of drama; and there's a finale, «Ride the Spider», that will knock your socks off.