You didn’t get the point at all.
Of course are are correct. Sorry for the typo.
Even if @rkrentzman got the second time signature wrong, he got the point exactly. Bernstein created an alternating tempo; he didn’t just write 6/8 and pretend every other measure was the same and equal.
You’re not getting my point either, but I don’t have time for this, as I have said a couple of times now, and also as I have said several times now, I’m not going to present the context. My question was answered. Everything is fine. Stop obessing.
Since you don’t have the time now, why don’t you just stop responding? No obligation to do so. But since it’s a public forum, it’s free for other users to give their thoughts and opinions too. However wrong or misinformed they are (in your opinion).
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Interesting! I’ve never seen the original score, and all arrangements I’ve seen/played have notated it in 6/8.
Google for west side story score. On nmi.org there is a scan of the Boosey&Hawkes score.
As someone who regularly refers my students to these forums as an additional resource while working in Dorico, I’m grateful to those of you offering exceptionally informative replies highlighting the distinctions between different and how Dorico handles it (even though I tell my students something, they usually start listening when someone else says it 
). I’m sorry some of you have gotten snarky replies. Just know my students appreciate you!
Like my wife. 
Jesper
She probably thinks the same about me.
I wasn’t questioning your claim. I only noted that I found it interesting. America is probably the most used example when talking about hemiola, but I’ve never seen it notated with an alternating time signature.
I didn’t take it that way either. It’s worth it to see the entire full score, the orchestration is a masterpiece, the music anyway.
America is not really an example of a hemiola since Bernstein uses dual time signatures.
Better examples:
R. Schumann Symphony No.3 opening
Tchaikovsky Dance of the Snowflakes from Nutcracker.
Many Dvorak Slavonic Dances
Often heard in Renaissance music
…and let’s not forget “JHB”: Johannes “Hemiola” Brahms.