<P> `` Somewhere '' , sometimes referred to as `` Somewhere ( There 's a Place for Us ) '' or simply `` There 's a Place for Us '' , is a song from the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story that was made into a film in 1961 . The music is composed by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim , and takes a phrase from the slow movement of Beethoven 's ' Emperor ' Piano Concerto , which forms the start of the melody , and also a longer phrase from the main theme of Pyotr Tchaikovsky 's Swan Lake . </P>
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The music is composed by Leonard Bernstein lyrics by Stephen Sondheim