Candide Overture: Leonard Bernstein conducting

LilaMillstone Says:

Nov 8, 2009 - True story, but we musicians also have REALLY GOOD peripheral vision for certain sections of the music. :D

Zanite Says:

Nov 8, 2009 - For the top line of the page, then it's 'meh, we'll guess'

bacanberraco Says:

Nov 11, 2009 - Bravo Maestro!

kisekxikoe Says:

Nov 11, 2009 - I want our band to play this. One of our other ensembles when we were in middle school played thhis.

secretsofseverus Says:

Nov 13, 2009 - 2:33 haha

Glarfugus Says:

Nov 14, 2009 - @hornerinf You do realize Bernstein is dead...

mariliamesmo Says:

Nov 15, 2009 - GENIAL!

lightning9222 Says:

Nov 16, 2009 - i have to play this for HIGH SCHOOL?!?!?!?!?

spongebobmadeline Says:

Nov 16, 2009 - Omg he's a hilarious conductor. I love that Carolina Crown played this in their show in 2008.

flyingindreams Says:

Nov 17, 2009 - ME TOO!!! :D Exciting no?

flyingindreams Says:

Nov 17, 2009 - Wow I think it would be the coolest thing ever to spend time composing a piece and then get to be the one who makes it happen, too! :D

hydrake Says:

Nov 18, 2009 - wow, this is gunna be our winter percussion show.

marmerg Says:

Nov 21, 2009 - FYI: this was recorded less than a year before Bernstein died of lung cancer. The entire cast was sick with the flu. Jerry Hadley later committed suicide in 2007. Adolph Green has also died since. The show was not a box office success on Broadway, but soon found a dedicated following. If you haven't seen and entire show and listened carefully to the lyrics, you really should. Kristen Chenoweth performed this with Balt. Sym. conductor Marin Alsop - it's a real HOOT; Chenoweth is Brilliant!

MsTruNorth Says:

Nov 21, 2009 - We played this in high school. It was a hoot the first runnd-through we made of it, when we hit all the time changes toward the end of Candide. We just burst out laughing. We got it eventually. We liked it enough to work through the tough time changes. There will always be the avoidable cracked reed in th clarinet section, but...you'll be glad you played this. :)

manofdci Says:

Nov 21, 2009 - victorious french horn section

Panda29k Says:

Nov 21, 2009 - i played this in middle school, but this band was better

Paradise737 Says:

Nov 22, 2009 - The concertmaster looks like a Jewish Harry Potter

DortAmKlavier Says:

Nov 22, 2009 - This song is so much fun!

tgoss2 Says:

Nov 22, 2009 - Whoa, I'm playing this in the High School wind ensemble ^_^

raposofan Says:

Nov 22, 2009 - GREATEST CONDUCTOR COMPOSER EVER

yuripompino Says:

Nov 23, 2009 - Thank you so much for this video I used for my playlist "COMPOSERS PLAY THEMSELVES" along with 65 other videos by 65 different composers !

TheRealEstateDealer Says:

Nov 23, 2009 - I played this in high school also. This overture is truly magical especially the part where the French horns and saxophones play their parts before the climax.

TheRealEstateDealer Says:

Nov 23, 2009 - The part of the overture that begins at 2:55 is so beautiful!

TheRealEstateDealer Says:

Nov 23, 2009 - My high school band director was the greatest, George Paris R.I.P.

musiclover5970 Says:

Nov 24, 2009 - O, this was lovely music.For classicmusic lovers I can also recommend a site I found on youtube owatones A swedish composer short stories and grief and skrider sakta fram thats probably swedish the last one.Stunning beautiful anyway like thisThanks