Like a lot of other skits, I as a kid never understood where this fit into SS, but who cares? I've always loved this music, and I love the skit even more now.
To: I Want Old School - All of us, today, in the present, are products of our history. The video touched you, and rightfuly so, because you were homesick for NYC. The video has the ability to touch people in different ways for different reasons. The video, for the multitude of different people who view it, has a multitude of different interpretations. It is a classic!!
I think I heard this haunting music in a scene in "Pretty Baby". It was when she was in the limo going home at the end of the movie. The music brought back memories of how sad I was when I saw, for the first time 35 years ago, where the flower was trying to survive. I Googled it and was shocked and so happy to revisit an old friend. I wonder how many other: flowers, stray cats, unloved children are also trying to grow up in a grey concrete jungle.
@critters999999999 As a kid from New York City, please allow me to offer another viewpoint. I cried watching this as a child because I missed home -- New York. My parents moved us to Atlanta, and I watched this from Atlanta, knowing I was from New York City and was no longer there. I wept because I felt like the stranded flower, trapped on a windowsill far away from the buildings and streets I belonged in. Isn't that funny?
I sense the clip speaks to universal loneliness. It may hit our generation particularly hard because we are surrounded by two extremely shallow, narcissistic generations crushing us between and beneath them, and no one seems interested in noticing us -- the tender, quiet flower growing up unseen by the passing world.
I think the segment speaks to the loneliness of Generation X, and that is why it hits us emotionally very hard. Said as a kid who is FROM where this flower is growing up.
I've been trying to find out who composed the music used for this clip, I finally found out yesterday. I LOVE this clip, it gave me chills seeing it again after 35+ years. Thank you very much for posting this! BTW, this piece was also used in the 1979 film A Little Romance, the 1983 drama Star 80 and last year's Life During Wartime. It's just great!
If the poor little thing could talk, it would say "look at what they've done to my home..." Kind of like Joni Mitchell's "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot".
Finally, finally, finally found this!!! I knew the melody, but not the composer and had the vision of the 'crying' flower and city in the background. Back then, I didn't pay it any mind, I was about 5. Today, it reminds me of ruining the earth with these buildings taking over. The flower looks so pretty and the city looks so....ugly and dirty. I would cry, too, if I were that flower.
Can anyone identify which recording of this Vivaldi guitar concerto this is? One such recording that I could find was by John Williams the guitarist, backed with a chamber orchestra, as issued c.1969 on Columbia Masterworks Lp MS 7327 - I'm wondering if that particular rendition from that album is what is on here.
I CANT BELIEVE I FOUND THIS VIDEO. finally!!! this video is the reason that as a 34 yr old adult, i prefer rainy weather, love melancholic music and appreciate the sad emotion music can sometimes convey so gracefully. i have searched this video for about 15 yrs and this is finally it. had no idea it was actually part of Sesame Street, I just remember it was on PBS and i was very young watching it, i thought that sunflower was crying when i was small. thank you so much for posting this.
This clip didn't make me cry as a child, but it does today at 34. It makes me remember those days of my childhood and I miss them so, so much. I can only imagine what it will do to me in another 30 years. =(
I was floored upon seeing this fir the first time in about twenty five years. So simple but so powerful. I really think we were lucky to grow up on this stuff.
Sesame Strret is truly amazing. I would never have thouight back then that I was hearing and learning an amazing classical piece by Vivaldi!!! Sesame Street is truly amazing! Wish we have more shows like this for kids.
Wow, can't believe this is here.. I used to watch Sesame Street all the time in the 70s. I always remembered this film, I used to ask my grandmother(she has since past, last year sadly)why is the flower crying..Guess it means a lot to me now. Many years later. Thanks for posting this.
A timeless piece of classical music merged with the simple beauty of a flower. I always loved this segment on Sesame Street when I was a kid. It was partly due to watching this that inspired me to learn to play the guitar
What a magical mix of music and image. Just read the lovely comments and memories it has inspired people to write about here. Took me many years to discover it was Vivaldi. Also found it in the John Wayne film "The Cowboys". The boy playing it in the film says it is a piece by Vivaldi. That is how I found out who composed the piece. Even amongst all of the ugliness we humans create, nature can still make beauty. Hmmmm.
Thank you so much for posting this video. This is one of the many little spots that used to be on Sesame Street that I miss the most. And like others have said, it has a nostalgic effect, taking me all the way back to when I was little. I had no idea then that this was a piece of classical music. All I knew as a child was that it was very beautiful.
This is sad for me because I remember them airing this right after the segment in which the grown-ups had explained to Big Bird the Mr. Hooper died and Big Bird having to come to terms with death for the first time in his life. It was a brilliant episode that should have won an Emmy if it didn't. Mr. Hooper died for real and this was a great way to teach children about the reality of death in a way they could understand it. You'd never see that on Sesame Street today.
Yes, I agree other posts here that this may well be the greatest Sesame Street short film, and there were many. I too am of the original target audience for the show and must say that there was something magical/hypnotic about the program up to the mid-70s or so, and I don't think it was merely my age, as I remember watching it well past its being age appropriate for me to do so. There is a simple truth here that is both sad and inspirational, which children can grasp and adults really need.
Wasn't there an another version where it starts with the zoom on the flower drips and then follows that drips to a stream of water, and then river etc... but finally goes back to this one flower that grows behind the buildings... ? I am 45 but still remember that image when I saw when I was a child, in Japan.
It still affects me the same way when I first saw this when I was little. Thank you for posting this, mstatz. It's nice to go through Nostalgia Lane once again.
You certainly wouldn't see beauty like this in children's programming today, with its classical soundtrack and its quiet truth: all beautiful things must come to an end, that we are all connected and rely on one another for survival, that man has mucked up God's beautiful landscape with concrete and pollution, and that beauty can be found anywhere if you choose to look for it.
I thought I was the only one who tears up with old sesame street clips. it's truly comforting to know my sentiments are not just rose-tinted nostalgia - it really was as good as I remember it. Long live classic sesame street and its genuine love for children
@torontonian1978 Dude, i'm a grown man and still i can't watch this without it making me feel like 5 again and wanting to cry. I thought the flowers were crying because they were lost or something
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!!!!!! I have had this on my mind for years!!!! I knew it was on Sesame Street and That movie Bermuda Depths!!!!!!!!! I remember this s a kid!!!!! I'm 42 Now!!!!!! Thank You!!!!!
i don't remember this clip which is strange cause i wanted SS a lot when i was a kid. i am 38 now. i did watch it today and i didn't feel any sadness. it was a beautiful clip. i do agree that SS isn't the same as it used to be.
@ironhide2006 I think you don't remember this clip because by the time you were old enough to remember, it probably had already gone out of fashion. However, I do remember perfectly well seeing this clip back in 73 and then subsequently as a rerun in the late 70's. At the same time, It's true what everybody here says about SS changing but not necessarily for the best for it's become too much into gramatical stuff and too little into adventure, like it used to be back in the 70's!
@Managuense1 most beautiful piece of music ever! this is the best version of this piece that I've ever heard, too, and I've tried hundreds. The word you are all looking for is "subliminal". In this case, meaning that it's something that reaches beyond emotion, beyond experience, and just calls directly to your soul. The last time I saw this on SS was '87. I know because I recorded it off the tv speaker. I took it to a guitar prof at college and he id'd it right away.
@facotf Oh, absolutely! I still get goose bumps every time I listen to this angelical tune which takes me back to my childhood when I indeed believed in castles on top of the rainbow and claypots of gold at the end of it! Sadly, that's all long gone, but I still hope that the world will realize that somehow we need to go back to basics so we'll achieve a simpler yet better place! Take care, Facotf!
It just amazes me how many people, when kids, found this clip to be sad -- I remember very distinctly that I would often leave the room when this particular clip came on because it made me so sad! I couldn't, and still can't, explain why. The other one that made me sad was "Daddy Dear" (you can find that on Youtube too). The emotional recognition in me while watching this is powerful.
This is touching and somewhat 'melancholy' a friend of mine sent it. So, thanks Wayne..!! Call you soon today. I just have to get some sleep, my family is mad at me for not sleeping enough last night--but, i kept trying to get obnoxious 'Bug' fixed on my new gospel channel here @ Reach4TheSon. Everyone is welcome to drop over and feel refreshed. God bless all of you.
Thank you so much...I haven't seen this since I was in the first grade or so, in the mid-1970s, and when I read "Sad Flower Song," I knew exactly which clip this was. I really hate what has happened to Sesame Street. It is nothing like it was.
BTW, I seen this too when i was 5 or so. It stuck in my memory for years. I play guitar semi- profesionally, and when I bought my first classical guitar some years ago what was the first piece I learned to play? Yup, this one.
In the Suggestions links for other postings of RV93 Largo, a classical guitarist named Prof. Boris Björn Bagger performs it tantalizingly close to the '74 Sesame Street original, perhaps he performed the original? It would be nice for millions of kids who grew up in the '70s with Sesame Street to know who played such an evocative piece with such haunting imagery as the Sad Flower film. :)
I cannot thank you enough for posting this. As a child, I did not fully comprehend the music and floral imagery. I am 38 years old now and as I watch it for the first time in 30 years, this has a deep and profound emotional impact on me, especially at the 1:08 mark when the melody starts over. I am shedding tears as I write this message, and I believe that we, as human beings, need this kind of emotional release now & then, especially for us who are powerfully moved by music. Thank you again.
Introspective, sad, touching, joyful...how does one describe it? I'll say this much...this gets to the 'center' of my emotions enormously. Another great masterpiece, both in music and film, from the 'good old days.' Other clips from the 1970's whose music I would put into this category are: 'I Believe in Little Things' and 'Trying and Trying Again' (both by Joe Raposo), 'Two Little Girls in a Little Doll House,' and a couple of clips featuring a gymnast (I think 'slow' was one of them).
The first time I saw this was the episode when everybody was trying to explain to Big Bird that Mr Hooper had died...Very touching: thanx for posting!!
The first time I saw this was the episode when everybody was trying to explain to Big Bird that Mr Hooper had died...Very touching: thanx for posting!!
I was a young adult, watching Sesame Street with my oldest son, when this video caught my attention. It literally pulled me inside and made me feel. I felt the beauty of this flower. But what was so powerful is where the flower was growing. In the city, quietly, out of harms way. I dont think this is sad as much as it is symbolic. Children, who live in the city are, as beautiful as this flower. And we should pay attention and keep them out of harms way.
Probably the greatest Sesame Street film! I love everything about this from the beautiful music to the even more beautiful cinematography. This is something pretty deep for kids, but that's what makes it so beautiful. It's something that kids can understand, and even adults would get something out of this. It's truly amazing.
It's like an art film, but for everyone. It's doesn't talk down to kids and treats them like a adults. That's how a kid's show should be, but it isn't anymore, even SS.
I was in 2nd Grade at school When I saw this the first time, and for 2 minutes the World just seem to stop, It was one of the first times I can ever remember being moved. If I ever managed to commit some sort of kindness and Compassion in My life I'd like to think that those 2 minutes back then made it so, that a part of Me 25 years ago is still innocent before the weight of this world got Me and long after I'm gone that this what I wrote here will still be My 2 Minutes.
WOW..this is so cool. I was in grade school when I firt saw this too back in the 1970's. Now at age 44 learning how to play the guitar myself, I thought of finding this song and learn to play it. I was moved then and now after seeing and hearing it after all these years. I can't believe how fast I found the video too! Good work on this posting!
Wow! It brings me back... and I am in an instant tranformed to my five year old self. Thanks for posting this. Sesame street was such great stuff- B.E. (Before Elmo)
AT LAST! Ive been looking for this clip from Sesame Street forever. As a child in the seventies, It always made me so sad... but in a good way. Walking to or from the bus stop I'd often reflect on this song with knowledge that I would most likely not be able to go out in play that day, raining down on my fun much like what I had always precived to be rain on these flowers. The composer, I should have known it was Vivaldi. Had it been done to his "Spring", it would not have had the same impact.
Thank you thank you thank you. I have been remembering this video for 30 years and searching and searching for it. It's somehow not as sad as I remembered it being. I can't thank you enough.
I cannot believe I have found this clip! What on earth would we do without YouTube? Wow! What a fabulous childhood memory. Thanks a million for sending me back.
This was one of my favorites from Sesame Street! I have been looking for it for 25 years! Oh I am so happy I found this! Thank you mstatz for posting this!
I`ve commented on this video before on here. I am amazed at the amount of people sharing the same sentiments; my self included. It`s almost like a Close Encounters thing going on. Where a bunch of people have the same vision but can`t explain why they know or feel the way they do! Again, this vid made me weepy. But why???
Agreed with all who posted! Thank-you for posting this. This is the one piece my mom remembers well too. she would stop what she was doing and come out to watch it with my brother and me. Still haunts me.
Oh MY GOD! I can not believe I found this clip. I have tried to describe this to my wife for years and now I can show her. This poignant little video was my first introduction to the beautiful music of Vivaldi. This should be mandatory veiwing for every grade school child.
Thanks for posting! I remember this & it's been a long time since I've seen it. Back then I didn't understand what this short was about, but I do recall this music.
This memory has been burrowed deep inside my head, and has sat dormant, until today. I can't even watch this film. Within 30 seconds I'm enveloped by profound sorrow and start weeping like I'm at a funeral.
I think it's mostly the music doing the work here, but I just remember knowing as a kid that this short was about mortality and loss. The flower was really a stand-in for something I shouldn't be seeing...
Thank you for posting this! I saw this on Sesame Street when I was 4 or 5, and it made such a deep impression on me that I can say it contributed to my choosing a classical music profession. Not knowing how to begin searching, I finally found an album with the entire concerto when I was 16. It was like coming home.
We just played this song for our guitar concert! are Guitar teacher told us to look it up on youtube, in my opinion i think it sounds better on guitar
I am truly amazed to read the comments here and how so many of us share the same memories of this poignant and haunting clip and the amazing Vivaldi piece that goes with it (Almost certainly my first exposure and/or memory of classical music). I don't take it as being sad though, I thought it was more of a statement on nature and beauty and how it could be found and thrive even on a stark and seemingly lifeless NYC rooftop.
That's a good point about this segment NOT being sad. I chose the title because I had seen others described it that way. I wouldn't have thought to use that adjective myself. However, when you think about it, because the music is so beautiful, it brings out emotions in people and some may even become teary-eyed. Tears become associated with sadness, hence, a sad film. The last scene (panning out to the city in the background) conveys the point of strength and resistance in nature.
@Bpothik I think because rain to a child is like tears and the music seems a little sad as well. I had the same problem with it as a kid. But to each his own.
This clip was about being nature being second place, isolated, and alone within this new-fanged forest. It's natural glory is cobbled-up within a maze of brick and mortar. The "weeping" of the flower is an even sadder fact: the life-giving nectar emanating from the flower has no place in this new environment; not a bee to harvest it's gift, nor a child to smell it's wondrous scents or see it's beauty.
Second place, but never just giving up, the flower blooms, and "weeps" and just grows quietly whether someone will notice it or not. It is a sad film, but one with a peaceful hope.
Why is it that this Sesame Street feature never left my mind? I wish more kids these days would get a chance to watch shows like these we had in the old days. Thanks Sesame Street!
This was a video that was ingrained in my childhood subconsciousness for years until I heard Steve Howe of Yes play it on his solo album "The Steve Howe Album". It was a "wait, I've heard this before" moment for me. I truly love this piece of music.
I searched for the name of this song for years until I heard it in a Starbucks,too! I knew it was Vivaldi from John Wayne's flick "The Cowboys" but didn't know the title. It makes me smile and cry at the same time.
I have looked for this film for years. Thank you for posting it. I used to sit with my children (I was really resting!) and it made me cry. It is touching and pure.I have a false memory of the final scene; I 'remember' a lone flower being viewed, stem straight in the middle of the roof top, much longer view of it.
35 years past before I heard this piece again in Starbucks . Immediately I thought of these images and how clear I remembered them. Incredible the detail of my recollection . The brain is an amazing wonder!
I got from it that no matter how far away and isolated we become or seem to be far removed from the world we can thrive and become a beacon of light and inspiration for the world to see. Despite adverse conditions the little yellow flower that grew at the top of an abandoned building ledge so lonely yet so beautiful thrived and gave its best to us. Even though it want last forever we should enjoy it while its there to be enjoyed.
This is one of my top 10 favourite S.S. clips of all time. I'm 38 now and I remember this clip when I was in grade school. I didn't understand much of it, but remember it made me very sad. If they played this clip after Mr. Hooper's death as buchichu said, then they did justice to the actor's death and I couldn't think of a better tribute.
After reading all of your comments, my mind ran through the Bible particularly Matthew 6:28-30. Even if our world changes, all the beauty in the world would not compare to a simple flower (a lily in the Bible). Not even Solomon in all his splendor was as beautiful as the lilies of the field.
What crushes me up til now is the dying seconds of the video, 1:57 to the end. The flower on a wall then pans to the city view then the flower was superimposed again - didn't cry but it was deep melancholy.
They put this clip on directly after the clip of the grownups explaining Mr. Hoopers death to Big Bird...in case you needed ANOTHER excuse to cry after that!
Thank God for YouTube! I remember seeing this on TV as a kid 40 years ago and also thought the flower was crying. Watching this again caused me to cry. A timeless classic.
I look at this an wonder, is the rain drop a tear drop? Does the flower cry because it is alone or does it see a New York that no longer exists?
Now some nearly 40 years after its originally air date, I look at this and still cannot help but shed a tear. How something so simple can be so touching. I am sure who ever will see this for the first time will tear up as well.
Excellent insight, Zeab70. I believe it sees itself alone in a polluted man-made "concrete jungle". The juxtapostion of both flower and city is sadly beautiful as well as the music.
I have loved this song ever since seeing is on Sesame Street when I was 2-4, thank you so much for posting this, I had been searching for this song. I love that the film shows the beauty of one tiny flower growing in a vast urban landscape.
Thank you so very much for sharing this, I too remember and often think of this video. In fact this video and the movie Cowboys are why this piece of music is my favorite. I also remember when Mr. Hooper died, it was the only time Big Bird got his name right, that was when I cried. I watched SS, my kids did too, and now my grandson watches, thanks again!!!
it is an amazing film geared to to young audience. I remember this from my childhood even though I was 6 when sesame street premiered. the music and images go perfect together and I remember the emotions I felt watching this. Even in the concrete jungle of 1970's polluted New York, (I'm a New Yorker) there was the magic of nature. The morning dew on the plant and especially the center told the world that it was a brand new day and I am
here and will survive and thrive over all obstacles.
Thank you for posting this. I'd been thinking of this for quite some time tonight, as it comes to me every so often and I would never think to look up what piece this is. Now I know. I don't recall if it made me cry as a child, but I did love it and would enjoy it as SS replaid it over the years.
Thank you for posting this. My children heard the whole concerto (this is the largo). I told them about this, and that I would search for it on YouTube. This film always made me cry, too. It brought up such deep emotions for a young child. (I'm 44, now.) I wonder what they were trying to do?
The music and film moved me deeply when I was a child too, it still does, actually. I sometimes think that the film was trying to demonstrate there were worlds within worlds, and to not discount the outward appearence of something without examining it closer. I also think the film demonstrates that beauty can be found anywhere if one looks closely enough, if you take the background scene of urban/industrial sprawl and set it against the flower. But that is just my overthought opinion.
So sweet! I'm sure I'm not the 1st to say this: this used to bring tears to my eyes, & r&r to me. Kinda surprising the music is Italian, because Italian music is fast!
Yeah, I remember that one too.... VERY sad, and of course as a kid I didn't understand why it was so sad.... good work uploading! Now a whole new generation can go through what we did!
It's also known as "Vivaldi's Lute Concerto No.15 in D Major Movement No.2: Largo. It shows that life is fragile & Nature has a right to to coexsist in the Urban Jungle as well as us humans & that we should respect nature & life should not be taken for granted & we should be kind to all living things..
This is one of the clips from the sesame street that has stayed with me since i was in grade school. I thought the film depicted fragility, sadness, survival and hope. You can;t help but be touched emotionally somehow. I wonder what kids of today would think of it now. And as for the music, i've tried to search for the sheet music for years but had a hard time because i didn't know the title nor the composer before. So glad to see this again.
Me too!! I can't remember how many times I saw this on Sesame Street 36+ years ago, but the tune has always carried in my memory, and all of my life I have, on occasion, hummed parts of it to myself. A beautiful sadness falls over me as I recall those few memories I have of toddlerhood. Life is surely precious, and really does go by way too fast, wouldn't you say??
*sob*
oh damnit now im bawling like a baby
its a freaking flower!! argh!
time to go punch a wall
SHExxLIKESxxBARINAS 1 week ago
Like a lot of other skits, I as a kid never understood where this fit into SS, but who cares? I've always loved this music, and I love the skit even more now.
uofmrules1 2 weeks ago
To: I Want Old School - All of us, today, in the present, are products of our history. The video touched you, and rightfuly so, because you were homesick for NYC. The video has the ability to touch people in different ways for different reasons. The video, for the multitude of different people who view it, has a multitude of different interpretations. It is a classic!!
critters999999999 3 weeks ago
This is in the wrong key!
rdangelo 3 weeks ago
Sorry!! The movie was Pretty Woman where they played the song.
critters999999999 4 weeks ago
I think I heard this haunting music in a scene in "Pretty Baby". It was when she was in the limo going home at the end of the movie. The music brought back memories of how sad I was when I saw, for the first time 35 years ago, where the flower was trying to survive. I Googled it and was shocked and so happy to revisit an old friend. I wonder how many other: flowers, stray cats, unloved children are also trying to grow up in a grey concrete jungle.
critters999999999 1 month ago
@critters999999999 As a kid from New York City, please allow me to offer another viewpoint. I cried watching this as a child because I missed home -- New York. My parents moved us to Atlanta, and I watched this from Atlanta, knowing I was from New York City and was no longer there. I wept because I felt like the stranded flower, trapped on a windowsill far away from the buildings and streets I belonged in. Isn't that funny?
iwantoldschool 3 weeks ago
I sense the clip speaks to universal loneliness. It may hit our generation particularly hard because we are surrounded by two extremely shallow, narcissistic generations crushing us between and beneath them, and no one seems interested in noticing us -- the tender, quiet flower growing up unseen by the passing world.
I think the segment speaks to the loneliness of Generation X, and that is why it hits us emotionally very hard. Said as a kid who is FROM where this flower is growing up.
iwantoldschool 3 weeks ago
I've been trying to find out who composed the music used for this clip, I finally found out yesterday. I LOVE this clip, it gave me chills seeing it again after 35+ years. Thank you very much for posting this! BTW, this piece was also used in the 1979 film A Little Romance, the 1983 drama Star 80 and last year's Life During Wartime. It's just great!
MovieGuy247com 1 month ago
If the poor little thing could talk, it would say "look at what they've done to my home..." Kind of like Joni Mitchell's "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot".
lazydaisydays 1 month ago
Finally, finally, finally found this!!! I knew the melody, but not the composer and had the vision of the 'crying' flower and city in the background. Back then, I didn't pay it any mind, I was about 5. Today, it reminds me of ruining the earth with these buildings taking over. The flower looks so pretty and the city looks so....ugly and dirty. I would cry, too, if I were that flower.
lazydaisydays 1 month ago
Can anyone identify which recording of this Vivaldi guitar concerto this is? One such recording that I could find was by John Williams the guitarist, backed with a chamber orchestra, as issued c.1969 on Columbia Masterworks Lp MS 7327 - I'm wondering if that particular rendition from that album is what is on here.
wmbrown6 1 month ago
Dangit Sesame Street! Why for you make me sad and cry, even at 29!?
I love you man. <3 Sesame Street love forever. <3
AWomanOnAJourney 1 month ago
I like this song too. very nice.
thesabinaifty 1 month ago
Couldnt someone have put another one beside it? This is just terrible! Love the music tho. I'm never cutting my grass again
clusterfurm 1 month ago
I CANT BELIEVE I FOUND THIS VIDEO. finally!!! this video is the reason that as a 34 yr old adult, i prefer rainy weather, love melancholic music and appreciate the sad emotion music can sometimes convey so gracefully. i have searched this video for about 15 yrs and this is finally it. had no idea it was actually part of Sesame Street, I just remember it was on PBS and i was very young watching it, i thought that sunflower was crying when i was small. thank you so much for posting this.
eightarmsblackmist 2 months ago
This clip didn't make me cry as a child, but it does today at 34. It makes me remember those days of my childhood and I miss them so, so much. I can only imagine what it will do to me in another 30 years. =(
BHoz77 2 months ago
Haven't seen this since I was about three years old, but I feel like it explains a lot about my life since then
schmetterlink 2 months ago in playlist Liked
This always made me sad as a kid...................I thought the flower was crying, and I felt sorry for it!
lurch321 3 months ago 2
A flower grows in Brooklyn
dangard88 4 months ago 3
Flowers cry with joy from the morning sun.
Night has gone, day has come.
BipolarBowler 4 months ago
Now I know why I love Vivaldi so much!
bekki650 4 months ago in playlist Sesame Street Clips!
I was floored upon seeing this fir the first time in about twenty five years. So simple but so powerful. I really think we were lucky to grow up on this stuff.
fireusaf60 5 months ago 3
Sesame Strret is truly amazing. I would never have thouight back then that I was hearing and learning an amazing classical piece by Vivaldi!!! Sesame Street is truly amazing! Wish we have more shows like this for kids.
FBoobieTubie 5 months ago in playlist FLORES
Wow, can't believe this is here.. I used to watch Sesame Street all the time in the 70s. I always remembered this film, I used to ask my grandmother(she has since past, last year sadly)why is the flower crying..Guess it means a lot to me now. Many years later. Thanks for posting this.
MG21870 6 months ago
the flower and music fits so perfect absoutly beautiful
andrew34430 6 months ago
A timeless piece of classical music merged with the simple beauty of a flower. I always loved this segment on Sesame Street when I was a kid. It was partly due to watching this that inspired me to learn to play the guitar
eon2008 7 months ago
What a magical mix of music and image. Just read the lovely comments and memories it has inspired people to write about here. Took me many years to discover it was Vivaldi. Also found it in the John Wayne film "The Cowboys". The boy playing it in the film says it is a piece by Vivaldi. That is how I found out who composed the piece. Even amongst all of the ugliness we humans create, nature can still make beauty. Hmmmm.
Trevthedev1 7 months ago 2
Thank you so much for posting this video. This is one of the many little spots that used to be on Sesame Street that I miss the most. And like others have said, it has a nostalgic effect, taking me all the way back to when I was little. I had no idea then that this was a piece of classical music. All I knew as a child was that it was very beautiful.
cinnamonenigma 8 months ago
I agree with the uploader comments - though a bit melancholic. there is something uplifting and optimistic about this song. we need more of that.
torontonian1978 8 months ago
Takes me back to the time of being a child and the time of innocence.
QuietStormMan 8 months ago
168 likes, 3 dislikes make that 169 for me
andrew34430 8 months ago
This is sad for me because I remember them airing this right after the segment in which the grown-ups had explained to Big Bird the Mr. Hooper died and Big Bird having to come to terms with death for the first time in his life. It was a brilliant episode that should have won an Emmy if it didn't. Mr. Hooper died for real and this was a great way to teach children about the reality of death in a way they could understand it. You'd never see that on Sesame Street today.
D2Kprime 8 months ago 3
Yes, I agree other posts here that this may well be the greatest Sesame Street short film, and there were many. I too am of the original target audience for the show and must say that there was something magical/hypnotic about the program up to the mid-70s or so, and I don't think it was merely my age, as I remember watching it well past its being age appropriate for me to do so. There is a simple truth here that is both sad and inspirational, which children can grasp and adults really need.
skisdlimit 8 months ago
Maybe this was the one I saw.... my memory might have got twisted.
Thanks. I didn't expect to see this after all those years.
naokoky 8 months ago
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Wasn't there an another version where it starts with the zoom on the flower drips and then follows that drips to a stream of water, and then river etc... but finally goes back to this one flower that grows behind the buildings... ? I am 45 but still remember that image when I saw when I was a child, in Japan.
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naokoky 8 months ago
It still affects me the same way when I first saw this when I was little. Thank you for posting this, mstatz. It's nice to go through Nostalgia Lane once again.
happytappyslappy 8 months ago
i cried during this music
TheStarshine108 9 months ago
Thank you for posting this. I saw this when I was a kid, and I've never forgotten it. :-)
ulan25 9 months ago
You certainly wouldn't see beauty like this in children's programming today, with its classical soundtrack and its quiet truth: all beautiful things must come to an end, that we are all connected and rely on one another for survival, that man has mucked up God's beautiful landscape with concrete and pollution, and that beauty can be found anywhere if you choose to look for it.
BettinaBalser 10 months ago 2
@BettinaBalser lessons that adults can learn from as well. that was what was soo good about classical sesame street
torontonian1978 9 months ago
beautiful flower segment, takes me back to when I was young.
johnnyboy8593 10 months ago
This is why I've been a Vivaldi fan for so long...and not even know it! this is probably one of the most memorable parts of Sesame street for me.
alphanum001 10 months ago
I thought I was the only one who tears up with old sesame street clips. it's truly comforting to know my sentiments are not just rose-tinted nostalgia - it really was as good as I remember it. Long live classic sesame street and its genuine love for children
torontonian1978 11 months ago 7
@torontonian1978 Dude, i'm a grown man and still i can't watch this without it making me feel like 5 again and wanting to cry. I thought the flowers were crying because they were lost or something
zedtransform 11 months ago 2
@torontonian1978 I cant believe I found this, I cant, on a whim, I have thought about it for 40 years, since four, beautiful, sad, moved, cried now
les555qq 3 months ago 3
The dew drops falling from the flower are tears. Look around at where it is growing up.
critters999999999 1 month ago
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS!!!!!! I have had this on my mind for years!!!! I knew it was on Sesame Street and That movie Bermuda Depths!!!!!!!!! I remember this s a kid!!!!! I'm 42 Now!!!!!! Thank You!!!!!
mellodee123 1 year ago
One of the most gorgeous instrumental songs from the Classic Era of Sesame Street. Does anyone know what the title of this piece is?
hoffenpot 1 year ago
i don't remember this clip which is strange cause i wanted SS a lot when i was a kid. i am 38 now. i did watch it today and i didn't feel any sadness. it was a beautiful clip. i do agree that SS isn't the same as it used to be.
ironhide2006 1 year ago
@ironhide2006 I think you don't remember this clip because by the time you were old enough to remember, it probably had already gone out of fashion. However, I do remember perfectly well seeing this clip back in 73 and then subsequently as a rerun in the late 70's. At the same time, It's true what everybody here says about SS changing but not necessarily for the best for it's become too much into gramatical stuff and too little into adventure, like it used to be back in the 70's!
Managuense1 10 months ago
@Managuense1 most beautiful piece of music ever! this is the best version of this piece that I've ever heard, too, and I've tried hundreds. The word you are all looking for is "subliminal". In this case, meaning that it's something that reaches beyond emotion, beyond experience, and just calls directly to your soul. The last time I saw this on SS was '87. I know because I recorded it off the tv speaker. I took it to a guitar prof at college and he id'd it right away.
facotf 9 months ago
@facotf Oh, absolutely! I still get goose bumps every time I listen to this angelical tune which takes me back to my childhood when I indeed believed in castles on top of the rainbow and claypots of gold at the end of it! Sadly, that's all long gone, but I still hope that the world will realize that somehow we need to go back to basics so we'll achieve a simpler yet better place! Take care, Facotf!
Managuense1 8 months ago
It just amazes me how many people, when kids, found this clip to be sad -- I remember very distinctly that I would often leave the room when this particular clip came on because it made me so sad! I couldn't, and still can't, explain why. The other one that made me sad was "Daddy Dear" (you can find that on Youtube too). The emotional recognition in me while watching this is powerful.
bronzepumpkin 1 year ago 7
When I was a kid this was sad to me because the flower seemed to be "crying" with the rain drops. I just kind of made that connection
Beautiful clip!
Trund27 1 year ago 2
This is touching and somewhat 'melancholy' a friend of mine sent it. So, thanks Wayne..!! Call you soon today. I just have to get some sleep, my family is mad at me for not sleeping enough last night--but, i kept trying to get obnoxious 'Bug' fixed on my new gospel channel here @ Reach4TheSon. Everyone is welcome to drop over and feel refreshed. God bless all of you.
Reach4TheSon 1 year ago 2
Thank you so much...I haven't seen this since I was in the first grade or so, in the mid-1970s, and when I read "Sad Flower Song," I knew exactly which clip this was. I really hate what has happened to Sesame Street. It is nothing like it was.
brooke050870 1 year ago
BTW, I seen this too when i was 5 or so. It stuck in my memory for years. I play guitar semi- profesionally, and when I bought my first classical guitar some years ago what was the first piece I learned to play? Yup, this one.
6gu7 1 year ago
To me, it shows nature trumping the city... And it will.....
6gu7 1 year ago
In the Suggestions links for other postings of RV93 Largo, a classical guitarist named Prof. Boris Björn Bagger performs it tantalizingly close to the '74 Sesame Street original, perhaps he performed the original? It would be nice for millions of kids who grew up in the '70s with Sesame Street to know who played such an evocative piece with such haunting imagery as the Sad Flower film. :)
mojojojo928 1 year ago
I cannot thank you enough for posting this. As a child, I did not fully comprehend the music and floral imagery. I am 38 years old now and as I watch it for the first time in 30 years, this has a deep and profound emotional impact on me, especially at the 1:08 mark when the melody starts over. I am shedding tears as I write this message, and I believe that we, as human beings, need this kind of emotional release now & then, especially for us who are powerfully moved by music. Thank you again.
ThirdOfJune4444 1 year ago 3
Oh man, I've been wondering what that music was for twenty years. My hero!
I love this segment.
MhariMackenna 1 year ago
This is beauty our eyes can not see from a far.
TheDemonKing100 1 year ago
Introspective, sad, touching, joyful...how does one describe it? I'll say this much...this gets to the 'center' of my emotions enormously. Another great masterpiece, both in music and film, from the 'good old days.' Other clips from the 1970's whose music I would put into this category are: 'I Believe in Little Things' and 'Trying and Trying Again' (both by Joe Raposo), 'Two Little Girls in a Little Doll House,' and a couple of clips featuring a gymnast (I think 'slow' was one of them).
d72jjpilc 1 year ago
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The first time I saw this was the episode when everybody was trying to explain to Big Bird that Mr Hooper had died...Very touching: thanx for posting!!
phihill1 1 year ago
The first time I saw this was the episode when everybody was trying to explain to Big Bird that Mr Hooper had died...Very touching: thanx for posting!!
phihill1 1 year ago
I was a young adult, watching Sesame Street with my oldest son, when this video caught my attention. It literally pulled me inside and made me feel. I felt the beauty of this flower. But what was so powerful is where the flower was growing. In the city, quietly, out of harms way. I dont think this is sad as much as it is symbolic. Children, who live in the city are, as beautiful as this flower. And we should pay attention and keep them out of harms way.
Moonshiiin7 1 year ago 2
Oh mY Gaaawd ... I found it! Many years of looking.
pcpiratepete 1 year ago 2
Probably the greatest Sesame Street film! I love everything about this from the beautiful music to the even more beautiful cinematography. This is something pretty deep for kids, but that's what makes it so beautiful. It's something that kids can understand, and even adults would get something out of this. It's truly amazing.
It's like an art film, but for everyone. It's doesn't talk down to kids and treats them like a adults. That's how a kid's show should be, but it isn't anymore, even SS.
EsperPictures 1 year ago
EsperPictures-yeah, kids shows nowadays have zero sophistication. It's like they don't even try.
audgeyp 1 year ago
I remember seeing this as a little kid and crying afterward. It still brings tears to my eyes now and I'm a friggin grown man now.
psychill22 1 year ago
@psychill22 Yeah, I found this one unbearably heartbreaking as a kid. I had to hide behind the couch when it came on.
Leskanic 1 year ago
I was in 2nd Grade at school When I saw this the first time, and for 2 minutes the World just seem to stop, It was one of the first times I can ever remember being moved. If I ever managed to commit some sort of kindness and Compassion in My life I'd like to think that those 2 minutes back then made it so, that a part of Me 25 years ago is still innocent before the weight of this world got Me and long after I'm gone that this what I wrote here will still be My 2 Minutes.
mattadams007 1 year ago
they are showing the beauty of the entire world in one flower and with this angelic music I say they have done it
The111Queen 1 year ago
I absolutely LOVE this piece. My dad walked me down the aisle to it!
SnugglySara 1 year ago
@SnugglySara very sweet :)
zazfilm 1 year ago
I heard this piece in an airport today and immediately remembered this video. I had to find it! Thank you so much for posting it!
lsmatheny 1 year ago 2
a most beautiful memory from a time far, far away.
Cheessa 1 year ago 3
@Cheessa the memory is far off...but not sooo far. try and get some play time in today. you're still a beautiful kid. :)
zazfilm 1 year ago
WOW..this is so cool. I was in grade school when I firt saw this too back in the 1970's. Now at age 44 learning how to play the guitar myself, I thought of finding this song and learn to play it. I was moved then and now after seeing and hearing it after all these years. I can't believe how fast I found the video too! Good work on this posting!
erhman2004 1 year ago 2
Thank God for youtube. I was just thinking about this and in seconds this wonderful memory came back in full color!!
Thanks fo much for posting this magic!
sunboyfun 1 year ago 6
Wow! It brings me back... and I am in an instant tranformed to my five year old self. Thanks for posting this. Sesame street was such great stuff- B.E. (Before Elmo)
FLYAPBY 1 year ago 3
AT LAST! Ive been looking for this clip from Sesame Street forever. As a child in the seventies, It always made me so sad... but in a good way. Walking to or from the bus stop I'd often reflect on this song with knowledge that I would most likely not be able to go out in play that day, raining down on my fun much like what I had always precived to be rain on these flowers. The composer, I should have known it was Vivaldi. Had it been done to his "Spring", it would not have had the same impact.
FLYAPBY 1 year ago 3
Thank you thank you thank you. I have been remembering this video for 30 years and searching and searching for it. It's somehow not as sad as I remembered it being. I can't thank you enough.
NealandUshma 1 year ago 3
I cannot believe I have found this clip! What on earth would we do without YouTube? Wow! What a fabulous childhood memory. Thanks a million for sending me back.
DigitalLazarus 1 year ago 3
brought back a lot of memories....
RonaldAlveyra 1 year ago 2
This was one of my favorites from Sesame Street! I have been looking for it for 25 years! Oh I am so happy I found this! Thank you mstatz for posting this!
dragonflyjenn70 1 year ago 2
I also remember this as a kid, even emailed pbs trying to find it. So nice to hear it again.
weaselpatrol 1 year ago
When I hear this now I get the most amazing shiver down my spine. What a great way to introduce classical music to children.
rmcelrea 1 year ago 3
I totally remember this film it will stick with me for years and years.
Nightmastercool97 1 year ago
Thank you very much. How the he!! did you get it?
dmahadeo 1 year ago
This clip was played on the episode where we learned Mr. Hooper had died making it even sadder.
RCast 1 year ago 3
I`ve commented on this video before on here. I am amazed at the amount of people sharing the same sentiments; my self included. It`s almost like a Close Encounters thing going on. Where a bunch of people have the same vision but can`t explain why they know or feel the way they do! Again, this vid made me weepy. But why???
gluvbot 1 year ago
Agreed with all who posted! Thank-you for posting this. This is the one piece my mom remembers well too. she would stop what she was doing and come out to watch it with my brother and me. Still haunts me.
jbestine 1 year ago
beautiful - thanks for posting!
konnichiwa1975 1 year ago
Oh MY GOD! I can not believe I found this clip. I have tried to describe this to my wife for years and now I can show her. This poignant little video was my first introduction to the beautiful music of Vivaldi. This should be mandatory veiwing for every grade school child.
whoopiman 1 year ago 3
Thanks for posting! I remember this & it's been a long time since I've seen it. Back then I didn't understand what this short was about, but I do recall this music.
moviedeeva 1 year ago
Ok... This is nuts.
This memory has been burrowed deep inside my head, and has sat dormant, until today. I can't even watch this film. Within 30 seconds I'm enveloped by profound sorrow and start weeping like I'm at a funeral.
I think it's mostly the music doing the work here, but I just remember knowing as a kid that this short was about mortality and loss. The flower was really a stand-in for something I shouldn't be seeing...
j5356972 1 year ago
Thank you for posting this! I saw this on Sesame Street when I was 4 or 5, and it made such a deep impression on me that I can say it contributed to my choosing a classical music profession. Not knowing how to begin searching, I finally found an album with the entire concerto when I was 16. It was like coming home.
77TJL 1 year ago
We just played this song for our guitar concert! are Guitar teacher told us to look it up on youtube, in my opinion i think it sounds better on guitar
noobtube228 1 year ago
it is Vivaldi, Guitar Concerto in D, 2nd Mvt
Hope this help :)
macupikcu90 1 year ago
I am truly amazed to read the comments here and how so many of us share the same memories of this poignant and haunting clip and the amazing Vivaldi piece that goes with it (Almost certainly my first exposure and/or memory of classical music). I don't take it as being sad though, I thought it was more of a statement on nature and beauty and how it could be found and thrive even on a stark and seemingly lifeless NYC rooftop.
Nonetheless, thanks for posting!!
Bpothik 1 year ago 11
That's a good point about this segment NOT being sad. I chose the title because I had seen others described it that way. I wouldn't have thought to use that adjective myself. However, when you think about it, because the music is so beautiful, it brings out emotions in people and some may even become teary-eyed. Tears become associated with sadness, hence, a sad film. The last scene (panning out to the city in the background) conveys the point of strength and resistance in nature.
mstatz 1 year ago 8
@mstatz Not so much sad as bringing a lot of us back to a more easy and carefree point in our lives.
gluvbot 6 months ago 2
@gluvbot I agree
MG21870 6 months ago
@Bpothik it isn't sad...it's poignant. the key is bittersweet.
zazfilm 1 year ago
@Bpothik Wonderful comments! I do believe it is one of my first experiences with classical music too. Sesame Street ruled
Trund27 1 year ago
@Bpothik I think because rain to a child is like tears and the music seems a little sad as well. I had the same problem with it as a kid. But to each his own.
sha11235 9 months ago
@Bpothik You took the words out of my mouth. :)
doubleye 8 months ago
This clip was about being nature being second place, isolated, and alone within this new-fanged forest. It's natural glory is cobbled-up within a maze of brick and mortar. The "weeping" of the flower is an even sadder fact: the life-giving nectar emanating from the flower has no place in this new environment; not a bee to harvest it's gift, nor a child to smell it's wondrous scents or see it's beauty.
pixelsword 1 year ago 6
@pixelsword
Second place, but never just giving up, the flower blooms, and "weeps" and just grows quietly whether someone will notice it or not. It is a sad film, but one with a peaceful hope.
PandaMishima 1 year ago
gtrhead, nina91101... same sentiments! ;-) Wow... I finally got to hear it again!
oldiesfreek 1 year ago
and big thanks too Mstatz ...
nina91101 1 year ago
Why is it that this Sesame Street feature never left my mind? I wish more kids these days would get a chance to watch shows like these we had in the old days. Thanks Sesame Street!
nina91101 1 year ago 3
I don't remember if I already said this but that was a very pretty song <33
QueenCosmos 1 year ago
This was a video that was ingrained in my childhood subconsciousness for years until I heard Steve Howe of Yes play it on his solo album "The Steve Howe Album". It was a "wait, I've heard this before" moment for me. I truly love this piece of music.
gtrhead 2 years ago 2
I searched for the name of this song for years until I heard it in a Starbucks,too! I knew it was Vivaldi from John Wayne's flick "The Cowboys" but didn't know the title. It makes me smile and cry at the same time.
mrsjennyz 2 years ago
Long before polital correctness....and look how we all matured and reflect.
I am 41, proud of being in-between "Boomers" and "Generation X"
hasfaith1 2 years ago 4
Thanksgiving 1983. I was 6. Definitely remember the "Mr Hooper died" episode.
Pdasilva0324 2 years ago
I have looked for this film for years. Thank you for posting it. I used to sit with my children (I was really resting!) and it made me cry. It is touching and pure.I have a false memory of the final scene; I 'remember' a lone flower being viewed, stem straight in the middle of the roof top, much longer view of it.
tgallemore 2 years ago
omg i can't believe that made me cry
:'(
SHExxLIKESxxBARINAS 2 years ago
THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
35 years past before I heard this piece again in Starbucks . Immediately I thought of these images and how clear I remembered them. Incredible the detail of my recollection . The brain is an amazing wonder!
THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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frankg3rd 2 years ago
I got from it that no matter how far away and isolated we become or seem to be far removed from the world we can thrive and become a beacon of light and inspiration for the world to see. Despite adverse conditions the little yellow flower that grew at the top of an abandoned building ledge so lonely yet so beautiful thrived and gave its best to us. Even though it want last forever we should enjoy it while its there to be enjoyed.
brianfurry13 2 years ago
This is one of my top 10 favourite S.S. clips of all time. I'm 38 now and I remember this clip when I was in grade school. I didn't understand much of it, but remember it made me very sad. If they played this clip after Mr. Hooper's death as buchichu said, then they did justice to the actor's death and I couldn't think of a better tribute.
ThirdOfJune4444 2 years ago
also featured in the 'turtle movie' The Bermuda Depths
abombinreverse 2 years ago
Thank you for re-posting this. I have a copy now, just in case. I remember this as a child, and it still makes me cry even today. Beautiful...
SpookyBoomslang 2 years ago
absoulutly beautiful
lake40 2 years ago
After reading all of your comments, my mind ran through the Bible particularly Matthew 6:28-30. Even if our world changes, all the beauty in the world would not compare to a simple flower (a lily in the Bible). Not even Solomon in all his splendor was as beautiful as the lilies of the field.
What crushes me up til now is the dying seconds of the video, 1:57 to the end. The flower on a wall then pans to the city view then the flower was superimposed again - didn't cry but it was deep melancholy.
bpabustan 2 years ago 2
They put this clip on directly after the clip of the grownups explaining Mr. Hoopers death to Big Bird...in case you needed ANOTHER excuse to cry after that!
buchichu 2 years ago 2
Thank God for YouTube! I remember seeing this on TV as a kid 40 years ago and also thought the flower was crying. Watching this again caused me to cry. A timeless classic.
signsandwonders 2 years ago 2
Classic!Makes you cry!
Viznel137 2 years ago 2
I remember this one laways made me cry for some reason. i think it was the music.
zacandtaylorrule 2 years ago 3
I look at this an wonder, is the rain drop a tear drop? Does the flower cry because it is alone or does it see a New York that no longer exists?
Now some nearly 40 years after its originally air date, I look at this and still cannot help but shed a tear. How something so simple can be so touching. I am sure who ever will see this for the first time will tear up as well.
Zeab70 2 years ago 4
Excellent insight, Zeab70. I believe it sees itself alone in a polluted man-made "concrete jungle". The juxtapostion of both flower and city is sadly beautiful as well as the music.
crapple009 2 years ago
I remember this used to bum me out to a tee.
easynorth 2 years ago
I have loved this song ever since seeing is on Sesame Street when I was 2-4, thank you so much for posting this, I had been searching for this song. I love that the film shows the beauty of one tiny flower growing in a vast urban landscape.
sweetiesteph23 2 years ago
Thank you so very much for sharing this, I too remember and often think of this video. In fact this video and the movie Cowboys are why this piece of music is my favorite. I also remember when Mr. Hooper died, it was the only time Big Bird got his name right, that was when I cried. I watched SS, my kids did too, and now my grandson watches, thanks again!!!
valerieneal 2 years ago
it is an amazing film geared to to young audience. I remember this from my childhood even though I was 6 when sesame street premiered. the music and images go perfect together and I remember the emotions I felt watching this. Even in the concrete jungle of 1970's polluted New York, (I'm a New Yorker) there was the magic of nature. The morning dew on the plant and especially the center told the world that it was a brand new day and I am
here and will survive and thrive over all obstacles.
motorman152 2 years ago 14
This is a nice video but the song was sad 25 years ago when I first saw it and it still is. : (
dimples825 2 years ago 2
@motorman152 As per the Vivaldi Sesame Street clip. I'm a couple of years your junior (I was 4 in 1969 when sesame street premiered)...
Anyway, I kind of remember thinking the same thing after seeing this as a child. Pretty neat.
(oh. yes.. I lived in Massapequa at that time.. )
jdenicol 1 year ago
This was the clip which played after Big Bird was told why Mr. Hooper wouldn't be coming back to his store in Ep 1839, November 1983.
Originally from Ep 0008, November 1969.
hurryupandw8t 2 years ago 2
Thank you for posting this. I'd been thinking of this for quite some time tonight, as it comes to me every so often and I would never think to look up what piece this is. Now I know. I don't recall if it made me cry as a child, but I did love it and would enjoy it as SS replaid it over the years.
ladybean73 2 years ago
(I called it the largo, but I think it's actually the adagio. If I felt like looking at my CD...... )
UU2 2 years ago
no it's actually listed as largo in most track listings.
jeffkahl 2 years ago
Thank you for posting this. My children heard the whole concerto (this is the largo). I told them about this, and that I would search for it on YouTube. This film always made me cry, too. It brought up such deep emotions for a young child. (I'm 44, now.) I wonder what they were trying to do?
UU2 2 years ago 9
The music and film moved me deeply when I was a child too, it still does, actually. I sometimes think that the film was trying to demonstrate there were worlds within worlds, and to not discount the outward appearence of something without examining it closer. I also think the film demonstrates that beauty can be found anywhere if one looks closely enough, if you take the background scene of urban/industrial sprawl and set it against the flower. But that is just my overthought opinion.
MeowMonkey 2 years ago
@UU2
I also wonder what this film was trying to do. Although I like the music and the scenery, I am not really sure what the point of it is.
Smartboy8877 1 year ago
So sweet! I'm sure I'm not the 1st to say this: this used to bring tears to my eyes, & r&r to me. Kinda surprising the music is Italian, because Italian music is fast!
CanadaFamilyMan 2 years ago
Yeah, I remember that one too.... VERY sad, and of course as a kid I didn't understand why it was so sad.... good work uploading! Now a whole new generation can go through what we did!
conradragzoff 2 years ago
Now I remember why I love this song - it was SESAME STREET.
I was just a kid when I saw this film.
tdot647 2 years ago
Very soothing and well-deservedly of the title. How can no one fell tears after hearing this? Amazing.
DragonLord1975 2 years ago 5
Thanks for posting this. I vividly remember this from all those years ago, and have been trying to find a copy for years and years!
Voodoo067 2 years ago
and now you found it! doesn't it feel great?
johnbourbon 2 years ago 3
Incidentally, does anyone have any information about the recording and/or the performers in this video?
Voodoo067 2 years ago
I have been looking for this for a long time, this song on SS always made me cry as a child. Simply beautiful music...
tehnatureboy 2 years ago 2
Wow.......beautiful!
Mylittlenebula 2 years ago
It's also known as "Vivaldi's Lute Concerto No.15 in D Major Movement No.2: Largo. It shows that life is fragile & Nature has a right to to coexsist in the Urban Jungle as well as us humans & that we should respect nature & life should not be taken for granted & we should be kind to all living things..
bigg3469 2 years ago 3
This was always my favorite SS video.
furrypurrylove 2 years ago
what a vivid memory
lake40 2 years ago
This could have been filmed forty years ago today..seems like a gray cloudy day in the summer of '69 in NYC!
Pdasilva0324 2 years ago
@Pdasilva0324 How do you know this might have not been filmed in the spring?
MIKECNW 7 months ago
they should play this @ my funeral
tod4533 2 years ago 2
This is one of the clips from the sesame street that has stayed with me since i was in grade school. I thought the film depicted fragility, sadness, survival and hope. You can;t help but be touched emotionally somehow. I wonder what kids of today would think of it now. And as for the music, i've tried to search for the sheet music for years but had a hard time because i didn't know the title nor the composer before. So glad to see this again.
elricbrat 2 years ago 2
The music is a famous classical piece called "Guitar Concerto in D Major, 2nd Movement" by Antonio Vivaldi!
mstatz 2 years ago
It's a great tune and beautiful and sad at the same time. A classic.
Cheessa 2 years ago
Me too!! I can't remember how many times I saw this on Sesame Street 36+ years ago, but the tune has always carried in my memory, and all of my life I have, on occasion, hummed parts of it to myself. A beautiful sadness falls over me as I recall those few memories I have of toddlerhood. Life is surely precious, and really does go by way too fast, wouldn't you say??
777pusher 2 years ago 4
You say it beautifully 777pusher. Thank you mstatz for posting this.
tramdass1010 2 years ago
couldn't have said it better :-)
Eddie62070 2 years ago
That's why there's a heaven!
woodrailking 2 years ago 4