Porgy & Bess - Gershwin part.1

[lalakinos]

....crap orchestra...crap conductor...

[maxmcy93]

@lalakinos lorin maazel??? no wayy

[windstorm1000]

Italia meet our Catfish Row!! Nice to see music flow the OTHER direction for a change!! P and B--a Masterpice, of course--and why it isn't programed by the MET is one of the great mysteries of the universe.

[bpacfoh]

I could listen to Porgy and Bess all day at work. Very relaxing. I would eat that harpsichord to see this concert live.

[Soulmusician17]

That oboist sure likes to move.

[60085man]

Amazing!

[miowmiowmiow123]

how much do these people get paid?!

[belugafishgod]

@miowmiowmiow123 I am a professional musician...tubist. I can tell you the answer to your question is....NOT ENOUGH!!! lol.

[MrPbrenna]

@belugafishgod Despite this, I can tell you that all politicians attending to this concert held in the italian parliament house are payed far more than they deserve.

[belugafishgod]

@MrPbrenna That I am sure of

[hop208]

So nice I listened twice... :]

[grumble2009]

These guys have very expressive elbow movement. But I can't find a tempo from Maazel during "Bess You Is My Woman" even with a score, flashlight, and road map.

[rob60201]

Saw Porgy & Bess for the first time last week at the Court Theater in Chicago. Loved it. Amazing play and performance.

[havanatlc]

Wow I will be playing in the production of Porgya nd Bess in July on 1st Oboe. I really love the passion and sound of Oboe, English horn and Clarinet player hats off. Lovely tone especially of oboe. This is a very challenging arrangement.

Once again hats off.

[lilmissmusic2012]

I love watching orchestras perform. :D Especially when the musician's and conductor have as much passion as these guys do.

[havanatlc]

Wow sounds excellent a really hard piece to pull of.  I love the oboe in this piece he really did a great job.

[madamerotten]

Это так красиво, это приносит мне до слез.

[marcheseciociaro]

uno spettacolo lo xilo!!! grandissimo Carmelo... un esempio!

[Tubealicious1]

It's so beautiful. I feel enraptured by it.

[BachaBachaNinja]

I never knew that the song "Summertime" was in this piece.

[Frommerhold]

/watch?v=8sCt23sdbhc

[wlsn555]

What I can't believe is how Justin Bieber crap gets over a million views while this gets only 41 thousand.

[jezza94]

I still cant get over how amazing this peice of music is..

[drummike89]

@0:29 He plays all G#s instead of going down to the F#.

[Desire9870]

 5:46

[LLJtbone]

Really nice. I am definitely liking that the solo was given to the trombone, very nice ;-) I played this a very long time ago and still love it.

[JubbaDaTrombone]

@LLJtbone Did you play this same arrangement? That's awesome either way. I played a version with a community band and got to play a solo with plunger. Ya I love the trombone solo in this too. Is it an open solo for any instrument to play or is it specifically a trombone solo? In my opinion it sounds right on the trombone.

[LLJtbone]

@JubbaDaTrombone I played it when I was in the Greater Hartford Youth Orchestra. I think somebody said it was suppose to be played on the Banjo. That would make sense seeing that it's based on that particular time in history. I like the solo much better on tbone, not a great fan of the "Banjo!". I played this same arrangement.

[pantayoko]

This piece is too beautiful for words

[mitchellm420]

Anyway you can imagine playing this gigantic piece of art sounds good to me. Whether it's Lady Ella, or Janis Joplin there's such a wide variety of musical interpretation the composer left to the performers discretion, there's no way it can't be loved in any beat.. Porgy and Bess is my favorite opera I've ever watched and not fallen asleep...

[jspoelst]

They totally eliminated the banjo part from the orchestration! Replaced it with the trombone for "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'"! No banjo players in Italy?

[Kaskaspar]

Pretty amazing fingerwork 0:21

[beethovenone]

Parliament or Senate in Rome, Italy

[fcmilsweeper9]

Where are they performing this? It seems very strange, it looks like a legislative hall or something lol

[poopyass4]

Really?

[Tagator1]

Really

[deicticdrummer174]

wats the name of the part around 4:00 or 4:10? the trombone solo

[windstorm1000]

@deicticdrummer174 "I got plenty of nothin"

[poopyass4]

Porgy and Bess is a beautiful work of art. I saw it last night at the Heymann Center in Lafayette. I want it on DVD or VCR. I would watch it every day.

[al1936ful]

@poopyass4 The BBC/1993 poduction is available on DVD.

[Mozart61]

Porgy and Bess is the best example of American Theatre melodrama.....I think it as a masterpiece such as Boheme or Aida......

[lent77cv]

yes, it is.

[windstorm1000]

@Mozart61 absolutely.  its on par---I think even better.

[MouYijian]

Holy $hit, that's the Italian Senate, isn't it?

[lent77cv]

of course.

[ikshields]

Odd location! Are they playing in a legislative hall?

[curlmofo85]

im doing this in my symphony orchestra

[RidgeRacerLord]

texas all state = not many people this year >.>

[werepyne]

Why isnt music like this mainstream?

[ikshields]

"Mainstream"? It isn't?

Since when is "Porgy & Bess" a radical piece?

Not sure what you're trying to say, I guess...

[lilpoopz]

go up to random people and ask them about porgy and bess. they will not know what you're talking about. just because it isn't mainstream doesn't mean it's radical, but i bet it was pretty radical when it was first performed.

[ikshields]

Oh, I can go further than that:

If you ask random people in this country about anything more than 10 years old, most of them will give you a vacant stare.

You could ask the same about "Carousel", "Oklahoma", or Watergate, and get the same result.

That says almost nothing about music, and almost everything about us, doesn't it?

To conclude:

1. Porgy is classic Broadway.

2. Americans have already forgotten what they had for breakfast this morning.

No surprises there.

[john3047X]

hey man i'm not dissing shakespeare, i'm starting to like him b/c of this english class i'm talking, but yeah its just lack of education and lack of exposure so the only ones who can appreciate stuff like this are the ones lucky enough to be around it......kinda like how certain people breathe rap music because its fed to them constantly, i mean how often do you hear porgy and bess on the radio? wand when they do hear it they diss it as old/lame/stupid/grandpa music.

[drummerdemon]

@john3047X i'm so proud to be canadian. :D

But yea, it's sad that radio stations cater to the uneducated dumbasses of our world, otherwise they might play some actual intelligent music.

[CrzyGtrdude]

come to think of it. . .what DID I have for breakfast?

hmmmm. . . .

[tenoremusica]

Porgy and Bess is NOT A MUSICAL. It's an American Opera.

[louis621]

@ikshields Gershwin is heavily downgraded in America and it really takes foreigners to consider him serious american music and not popular music. The fact that you called porgy "broadway" is living proof of that.

[ThaSchwab]

@ikshields

Porgy and Bess is an opera.

[windstorm1000]

@ikshields well, that is a complex question. In some respects it is kinda mainstream--in others absolutely trailblazing. think of it--a opera written for/about one aspect of black culture--that was never done before on the broadway/operetic stage (oops, I know, there's Treemonisha). . there are aspects of jazz and folk elements in it that were never done before.....its a masterpiece.

[john3047X]

it is beyond most people, just like how most joe shmoes don't understand shakespeasre

[ikshields]

"Beyond" them? How?

By the way, I'm a "Joe Schmoe" too, and so are you. We're all people in the street, pal, even the educated ones.

I think Shakespeare is fun and easy to get into. It's just dialect, like listening to Southerners or Minnesotans -- what's the big deal?.

C'mon, quit treating Shakespeare like he's "high-falutin", already. He wrote for a travelling band of drunken actors. He's more "Joe Schmoe" than you or me!

He was a great writer, not a high society fop.

[drummerdemon]

@ikshields i think maybe the difference is that Southerners and Minnesotans don't speak with undending layers of symbolism and metaphor that can be studied for years and years.

[ikshields]

True up to a point, I gotta admit.

At least, unless the Minnesotan and the Southerner are Garrison Keillor and Tennessee Williams...

[victoriadavis93]

my school is doing ths in a week im so excited.

[wiredirony]

what really does it for me starts at 1:23. Gershwin is my fav.

[Jockstrap132]

texas all state, whoa

[DefenderDude21]

I'm pretty sure that xylophone part could eat a small child, if need be..

[sbuckit]

@DefenderDude21 The funny part is that the strings are playing the same thing pretty much, but it's so much harder on xylophone. Xylophonists are just beasts.

[PercessorChacha]

@DefenderDude21 The exerpt isn't all that hard, it just requires alot of practice. I learned it when i was 12, but of course, i spent multiple hours every day practicing it. Practice makes perfect, my friend!

[cinemabon]

Thanks, C'apn

[cinemabon]

Maestro Lorin Maazel conducting... what orchestra? London?

[CaptainYutube]

Filarmonica Toscanini

[kollless]

Maazel Numero 1

[DemTheComposer]

Due, tre mesi fà ho frequentato un master a Riva del Garda con il trombonista del solo, Andrea Conti, un grandissimo insegnante di cui sono tuttora molto colpito, complimenti Maestro!

[Abriggs500]

Finally I find this piece played with a TROMBONE SOLO playing "I Got Plenty of Nuttin."

[Abriggs500]

Doesn't this conductor look just like the New York Philarmonic conductor?

[ikshields]

lol... there's a very good reason for that.  ;-P

[Orpehus458]

trombone solo is one of my favourites

[ctorrev]

El Solo de Oboe pudo ser mejor!!!!!!!

[ligure2008]

Grande musica - Grande Gershwin!

[TheDanceOfMaternity]

I had to do that xylophone part at the beginning for an audition yesterday.

Death to that xylophone part