Seth Rudetsky deconstructs some Sondheim and Michael Jackson orchestration!

[scda]

I love your videos, thank you!! And all your faces make them even better :)

[tipofmytongue1024]

I love when you go "Anybody? Nobody? okay" haha You are soo cute. Lets get married.

[misscleo3861]

Don't know about the Jackson 5 song, but Tears of a Clown's music track was written and produced by Hank Cosby and Stevie Wonder (only 17 at the time!).

[bwaystar88]

"Getting Married Today" is literally my favorite orchestration ever. I rewind the end obsessively. The violins, into the horns, and the DRUMS at the end! It's so phenomenal. Tunick is quite simply a genius.

[leota22]

I am obsessed with your bassoon impression. :)

[CromTO]

I listened to "I Wanna Be Where You Are" I don't know how many times and never even looked at the way you did/do until now. Thanks Seth, you rock.

P.S. Now whenever I listen to it I'm obsessed with the violins!

[me254065]

I was really fortunate to work for Mr Tunick June of last year in Chichester, UK. He reorchestrated Oklahoma and I was a runner/assistant. I liased with his copyist in the US. An amazingly quiet man. I love these deconstructions.

[s0ndhe1m]

OMG I'm doing Side By Side BY Sondheim right now and get to play both of those passages in my piano part!!! LOVE IT!!!

[YeOldeSoul]

HA! I can't believe I never heard Crazy Bassoon in Tears of a Clown.

And now I can't un-hear it.

[CartoonsUseToBeCool]

Seth, i love you but when Mike is singing it's hard to focus on anything else!

[scharfie]

It's actually pronounced "harp see chord"

[RentandWicked]

amazing stuff here Seth! gotta love brilliant orchestrations that often go unnoticed!

[nxbx7]

you should deconstruct see what i wanna see

[crazypoundpupp]

Ha i'm so not going to be able to listen to tears of a clown the same again. Then again, that always happens from these, i can never listen to a song the same again :-)

[bw123]

I miss new Sondheim!

[amgirlvicki]

Brilliant as always Seth!

[WWEQAF]

I would love it if you deconstructed some Alice Ripley, my favorite broadway diva, after all it is my birthday!!!!

[joris1015]

seven minutes of E. THANKS A ZILLION!

[MaryJesusJoseph]

This is great--and it's always so wonderful to hear the great Dorothy Collins again.

[penti77]

Tunick is GOD.

[Ramsgate15]

u soooooo need to deconstruct barbra harris in the apple tree!

[MinervasGarden]

Well done!