This is the absolute definitive benchmark for this work. How could it not be? The Maestro and master composer himself on the podium conducting one of the finest ensembles ever assembled including his protege June Anderson, the handsome and talented Jerry Hadley who left us far too early, and his great lifelong friend and internationally renown soprano Christina Ludwig. And to top it all off, most of them, including Maestro Bernstein and Ms. Anderson were severely I'll with the flu when this was performed!

This is the gold standard of this work.

@zakaibenson7091

3 жыл бұрын

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@jayceoncohen6339

3 жыл бұрын

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Jerry Hadley's story is so sad it makes you cry.

When first I heard of Jerry Hadley's fatal act I said that his performance of "Make our Gardens Grow" would reduce me to a mess. He was a wonderful artist who I enjoyed experiencing on stage here in Chicago, and, having met him, he was a charming and wonderful person. I cannot fathom the dark demons who stalked him, but I will treasure my memory of him as performer a very funny person. Pace, pace--you were and will always be treasured dear Jerry.

It's so great to remember Jerry like this - so young, so handsome, so full of promise. Jerry, we'll miss you. May God rest your soul!!

June Anderson is flawless. Her voice commands the room and sails over its audience, yet is sweet enough to tickle the senses. Sublime!

What a shame that we no longer have Hadley.

This is my favorite vocal piece... Hands down. Oh I miss Bernstein... Gets me every single time 😢😭

@peggydwyer8187

7 жыл бұрын

yes. so much yes.

And in Heaven, Aaron Copland says to Lenny "Not a bad piece of work. You learned more from me than I even knew".

@peggydwyer8187

7 жыл бұрын

and then they turned to Jerry and said "not bad either dude".

that moment literally made me cry!

GOD I love this!

Hadly has a gorgeous voice - love his fast vibrato!

Watching this after so many years brought tears to my eyes. Remembering Jerry and of course Lennie. Thanks for this posting which I just watched twice

No, there aren't any questions. This is the answer.

I was so incredibly lucky to be present at this performance in London’s Barbican, our seats were 2nd or 3rd row and I was 9 years old at the time. Just stunning and an extremely memorable moment from my childhood.

(June 16, 1952 - July 18, 2007) He was a great artist who died much too young.

Beautiful and heartbreaking, in light of the tragic news about Jerry Hadley.

Not only was Bernstein an exceptional composer, but he was also a virtuoso pianist and conductor. He has more of my respect than any other musician or composer within the 20th century.

@xxsaruman82xx87

2 жыл бұрын

And such a warm-hearted human being

I played the Old Lady in a production of Candide in Denver in 1976. It was one of the most fulfilling and joyful experiences I had during my decade as an actress. But THE most sublime and transcendent part of the show was at the end, singing Make Our Garden Grow with the chorus. How much more sublime it must have been for these performers to have been led by Maestro Bernstein himself!

indeed, both the sound of this piece and the message that it conveys, I thnk this song sums up Bernstein's constant message about human fraternity.

Oh wow! It must of felt amazing to sing this BEAUTIFUL and powerful music with the genius Bernstein and Hadley?! We just had our opening night of Candide last night and I can't get over how soul grasping this last piece is!!! ;)

ive only knew of the Candide overture... till today .. and I MUST see this entire musical to wich .. being a Bernstein fan as i am... im dissapointed that ive never heard of this misical till now. West side story is my all time favorite bar none. Leonard was one of the best of this centry. Dearly missed now.

God bless Leonard Bernstein!

Many years ago I was in a show that moved into the upstairs theatre at BAM just after the revival of Candide that was moving to Broadway - the revival that would trigger a major re-evaluation of the show. Candide had been a flop back in the 1950s but that revival finally gave it the recognition it deserved. Was amused seeing this symphonic staging - that revival had six musicians. Hahaha

LOVE the aCapella at 3:40!! Such beatiful and thoughtfully written music brings tears to my eyes.

This always makes me cry.

I love this. Stunning - especially that last note!

With only a few revisions, I would make this the American National Anthem.

@overcastandhaze

9 жыл бұрын

John Anderson That would be awesome.

@Hugh7777

7 жыл бұрын

Especially next Friday (January 20, 2017)

@luigib2307

6 жыл бұрын

What a great idea! What an interesting comment. Thanks.

@cobblestonegenerator

4 жыл бұрын

Oh god i wish so bad the american anthem could've been written by a composer like Bernstein. Cus the one we have sucks and...isn't it actually a british drinking song?

For some reason, the rising chords in the orchestra remind me of the end of The Firebird.

@marvinjtaylor4646

9 жыл бұрын

Studio Avocat And Mahler. It's such a Mahlerian hymn.

The best of the Best of Mr. Bernstein's. Love it and listen to it often. This has become part of my own creed of life. Thank you doug

You were good, Jerry.

Jerry Hadley was a University of Illinois alum. His death was untimely and upsetting, but I'm proud to be studying at the same university as him,

I love that Bernstein is so into it that he's singing along at the end. What a beautiful man

Thank you for sharing this CLEAR copy of this wonderful clip, conducted by Lenny himself, and with his old fellow "Revelers" cohort Adolph Green as Dr. Pangloss at the end!!!!!

You'll notice Jerry performed this so much he didn't need to look at the music. Also, Lennie takes it at a much slower tempo than others.

@crazyorganist1609

4 жыл бұрын

He knew the work better than Noone else and it shows

June is gorgeous.

Well, several things to say. First, I didn't realize when I clicked on the link to this youtube clip that I would experience the Maestro himself. Made it more personal. I worked on a production of Candide in Dallas in 1981, know the damn show back and forth.... happily! Tonite, I saw Make Our Garden Grow used for the finale of Barbra Streisand: Back in Brooklyn. Done with her special meaning and appropriate feeling from all performers (except the young chorus must have ben quite stagestruck, they were quite off pitch). The singers in this clip are entirely wonderful. The fact that every single "character" in Candide was brought in for the remaining verses just shows how magnificent Bernstein's counterpoint is. The arrangement doesn't get much better than this. But, you may not know this. There iis more than just one Libretto out there for Candide. The version I worked on has a cow (two people in a costume) come out during the singing, it falls over right at the end. And, the Pangloss character says, "Ay, me. The pox." Which, to me, smacks of Dorothy Parker's satirical additions to the book. This one ends with "Any questions?", which is so Panglossian (Voltaire-ish).

Opera theater at Music School at Indiana University in Bloomington just finished a run of Candide. Many of Bernstein's papers came to the school of music archive for posterity just a few years ago. He had a special and long term relationship with the school of music, which is consistently ranked one of the top two in the nation. The musical Candide is a marvel. I have three different albums of the three major variant productions of it over the decades. You simply cannot tire of it. Awesome.

Lenny, we will never ever forget you! you and your music will be in our hearts forever!

Sang this for high school choir. Was awesome.

this song makes me cry. stop. and reevaluate my whole life. and then move on in hope.

Oh my God, is that high note at the end a trumpet F#? Wow, Bernstein was ruthless. Amazingly played though.

@licoricestic

6 жыл бұрын

high C

@licoricestic

6 жыл бұрын

oh nevermind it's an E...guess the trumpet wanted to take it another third above.

@morganboutwell8231

6 жыл бұрын

starwarsjunkie7777 ikr? It gives me chills every time

This always sends shivers down my spine. Beautiful. thanks for posting this video!

Jerry Hadley was Candide. If this was pro sport they'd retire the role like a shirt number.

Very touching.. a real love song.

Marvellous and very moving......................

phenomenal!!

Leonard Bernstein is just fantastic... If you ever have the chance to see On The Town, you'll be blown away.

émouvant et magnifique concert

Lenny must have channelled both Bach and Copland to write this. It's stronger than one man can create. He had to be pretty satisfied to hear it when he was conducting.

love it

PLAYING THIS SONG IN MIDDLE SCHOOL ORCHESTRA!! :) LOVE IT!! haha our teacher made us listen to this i think

A great piece. Yet the music and lyrics of love songs from West Side Story ( you pick ) will outlive this one in my view ( e.g. Make of our lives, one life. … There’s a place for us…..)

we sang this in highschool with the milwaukee orchestra symphony! it was AWESOME!!!!

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

RIP Jerry Hadley :(

The late Adolph Green, who plays the narrator (and Dr Pangloss) in this production. If you can get hold of the whole video, he is hilarious.

@reginabillotti

3 жыл бұрын

Was the whole thing ever released commercially? (Even as a VHS)?

@erikdaumann8589

3 жыл бұрын

@@reginabillotti There is a DVD release of the complete performance

For those who asked: That top note played by the lead trumpet at the end is a high C (2nd line above the treble-clef staff).

I had the pleasure of singing in the London Symphony Chorus and this was such a memorable and special performance to be a part of. Never to be forgotten! (Thanks Slobone for the comment on the high C - not sure if I could hit it now!)

Jerry Hadley R.I.P.

For gacmyver: he played dr. Pangloss and the narrator, and during the whole performance he always interacted with the audience. So at the end he talks to the public one last time.

Very Good

belle!!!!!!

Yes, it is the London Symphoney Orchestra.

I can find nothing wrong with this performance. Truly wonderful.

What a smart-ass ending. Voltaire would be so proud.

@Ca8532 no, that's incorrect. Berstein composed the operetta. Voltaire wrote the story of Candide in a Novella in the 1700s.

it appeared that Dr.Pangloss was portayed here by Adolph Greene who,along with Betty Comden, composed some great tunes also

Sigh. Some of Lenny's best music here. This is just...unbearably gorgeous.

I'm with you here. What are some others?

that's exactly what it is! haha, awesome!

any questions!

I think that is true to some extent, but it's also possible to learn to play with passion. It takes a lot of confidence and courage to put your whole heart and soul into your music, and isn't something you can do immediately.

Love the guy at 4:44!

That was in response to mdcam btw.

@witness124 I completely agree with you on that

Last week he shot himself in the head in his home in Poughkeepsie, NY and was gravely injured. He was removed from life support a few days ago.

@RunicWizard Im in this show right now, this song makes me cry when i listen to it. BUT as i usually wouldn't laugh at a comment like this...it can't be unheard 0_0, hahaha

well voltaire wrote the book candide which several people tried to adapt into an opera. bernstein was the best most widely known adaptation of the book

The who cast, with the exception of Nicholai Gedda who avioded them like the plauge (literally) had an awful flu. Lenny was barely able to function. After getting through this show Jerry took a month off to recover from it.

@doolbro With a voice like that, she can stare at her watch for all I care

@prcushinplaya08 Well, that kind of depends on if you see this as being an operetta or a piece of musical theater, because Candide can exist in both categories. If you're thinking in the operatic style you could go to other comedic operas like Rossini's Barber of seville or La Cenerentola (Cinderella) otherwise equally grand scores would include Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas or Aida Other operettas worth watching include die fledermaus, Anything by Gilbert and Sullivan, etc Hope that helped

Curiously, this theme have the five initial notes of the "Luke and Leia Theme", from "The Return of Jedi", by John Williams.

I agree, it may depend upon instrument, but as a guitarist, I have had to learn how to make my hands transfer my emotions into the strings. I also have to know the musical theory behing what I'm doing in order to find the type of sound i wish to play. Yes, natural ability does play a part, but I thoroughly believe that technical ability is more important.

@MrCrayonInk95 It's from an opera. Singers come with the territory.

The character he portrays is Dr. Pangloss, Candide's teacher.

can anyone recommend pieces in the same vein as this? im just starting to love this genre , thanks :)

@soaringvulture

8 ай бұрын

There ain't nothin. Candide is sui generis.

is this at the barbican?

Ruth shomron told me about Leonard

@witness124 He is certainly up there. Though I personally wouldn't rank him as highly as, say, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, or Stravinsky. But I know what you mean :)

What's the first trumpet playing at the end?

What is the meaning of the "Any questions?" at the end?

@nickbigd

3 жыл бұрын

That’s a line by Dr Pangloss, who was Candide’s teacher/tutor figure in the story.

any recordings with nonoperatic voices?

@nickbigd

Жыл бұрын

sure. all over youtube. for example Aaron Tveit, Laura Osnes, Christopher Jackson, Annaleigh Ashford, Westminster Festival Chorus

If Mahler was American.

why did pagngodofwarchnt and procrastinator1357 get thumbs down?

4:43 - why does this guy say "Any Questions?"

@Blacky-wb7jh

7 жыл бұрын

watch the whole opera, it'll be clear!

@edwardgold1010

5 жыл бұрын

That was Adolph Green in his role of Dr Pangloss and that's the way Bernstein's Candide actually ends.

How come it wasn’t Jerry Hadley who recorded the west side recording with Lenny instead of Carreras? You could see the Maestro wasn’t happy with Carreras.

@nickbigd

5 ай бұрын

Two possible reasons: It was recorded in 1984 and Hadley was accomplished but young and not as well known as Carreras. It also could have to do with the recording label: Carreras did a lot with Deutsche Grammophon

@westauroratrumpet I think it's actually an F#!

Raspberry to you! :-)

@prcushinplaya08 It's less operatic, but you should check out The Light in the Piazza. That's a more classically scored modern musical. Really gorgeous stuff.