look at the trumpet players gnarly beard at :17:D amazing how he conducts. i'm trying to imagine what he's communicating to the musicians O.O
even while sight reading this down for wind ensemble people didn't get the syncopation and accenting right at 3:24. drove me nuts D: super psyched to play this in a couple months. ever since i've heard this two years ago it's been on my bucket list to play:P don't know if i'll ever get the chance again since i'm not a performance major. Business ftw ^^
i found a video of the ny phil performing this ditrected by their concertmaster. it seems to have disappeared from youtube. does anyone have a link to this?
What music! Maybe this seems selfish but I've always wished Bernstein would have gotten conductor wrist or tennis elbow... anything so he would have spent more time composing rather than waving the stupid stick. Even the best directors are forgotten eventually... but can write this?
@mccheese0 Unfair generality. He is -still- beloved for his conducting. Note the 60-CD Symphonic set just released (which I bought). His role in bringing Mahler to the fore would have been enough, but he did so so much more. None of this is to take away from his compositions, most of which I adore.
Mahler has been dead for 100 years, and his conducting and interpretation of numerous works are still discussed and studied.
"Song" is a problem. I have to agree with GeneralDAS about the overall dumbing-down of the language of music appreciation, as it were. In part we can thank Apple and its ubiquitous iPad, iPhone, i-everything, for creating a culture of "songs" that can be downloaded for 99 cents or whatever. So now we an entire Wagner opera a song, or a Mahler symphony.
wow this piece brings back great memories of when i was a highschool freshman and my school marching band marched to this great piece. It was hard playing it but we managed to perfect it on tempo 400
wow this piece brings back great memories of when i was a highschool freshman and my school marching band marched to this great piece. It was hard playing it but we managed to perfect it on tempo 400
bernstein, what a hero. we just played an arrangement of this amazing piece for clarinet choir, wow the clarinet 1 part is hard... especially at like 168 ha!
great video and thanks for the sync up, although i too have to take some umbrage at getting so worked up about the word "song". in this day an age to the average music fan (which we have nearly all been) the word "song" is interchangeable with piece, overture, lied, madrigal, tune - whatever you want to call it. it's like the word tannoy, which is also misused. being ignorant would be to dislike the music, but being uninformed should not be penalised.
@corda1983 How is it uniformed? My note at the beginning obviously shows something is wrong with using it. Thus, people that post comments otherwise are just being smart-asses, or being completely defiant. The latter is perfectly fine with me, just as long as it's on someones else's comment page..
If you're arguing semantics or etymology to be more specific, you're opening up a very large can of worms, as many of the words we use in regular speech have different meanings that have diverged quite significantly from their original meanings.
While I and some others try to avoid incorrect usages of words, there's no way to get it all 100% correct without speaking in an archaic dialect.
i played this in my high school wind ensemble my junior year of high school 4 years ago. we were 2 points away from a perfect score at our competition with this piece. i loved playing this so much!
I'm really not sure it's cool to delete comments referring to this as a song... Some people probably don't have that much musical experience, and will refer to everything as a song... Other than that, it's good to have a synchronized version.
Also seriously though, it doesn't help to be so high and mighty and against people's tendency to refer to all music as a bunch of 'songs'. If someone enjoys this piece enough to comment on it, why silence their praise? You know what they meant, even if the terms are wrong.
I am not trying to be high and mighty. I am trying to preserve the respect this kind of music deserves, and using correct terminology is part of that respect. While you are right that I should not silence praise, when someone says "song", it's just one of those things that makes me grind my teeth. It's ignorance to me. So call it what you will. Maybe I don't have any real convincing arguments for it. But I still uploaded the video, and I will still do what I please.
@pianodan10 Sorry I'm with General on this, the term "song" is just plain-out wrong, it's an overture, or this piece, but please not song, no one is singing!! It really massively grates with me, when people call it song. The stange thing it seems to be an American thing, I've not heard my kids at school in the UK refer to pieces of music other than real songs, as songs.
This is an amazing piece to play, I was so excited when my high school band decided to play this. This was my first experience with a Bernstein piece, and its obvious he was an amazing musician and the fact he dances on the podium makes it 10 times better. Woo Lenny!
this oveture is AMAZING! we're playing a revised version in band right now, but this one is so much cooler. it flows so much better, the clarinet section is definately more confident than ours, and its so much better with strings.
Bernstein is awesome! he makes me laugh with how enthusiastic he is. i wish he would come and conduct our band for a day... but he's dead now, isn't he? idk
bernstein is halarious....but he lookes like a fun conductor and with his dancing.....im pretty sure i can almost hear someof the analogies he uses for the sections of the song. a very beautiful peice
My band played this freshman year. This is my all-time favorite piece; it alternates between beautiful, powerful, and frantic yet blends them into something more. If only my band was as good this year.
Ah, wonderful. Always one of my favorites. I'm just sad that the orchestra I'm in now can't do it, as we could never find enough brass. (I'm going to pretend that this is the only problem, and not that it's just too hard overall. :-P )
And Bernstein is adorable! The way he starts bouncing at 2:33 makes me giggle out loud.
The opening of this piece makes me think of a busy metropolis, with people crossing the street, taxi cabs, street vendors, and police patrolling the streets.
@rockclimber21 My old teacher at college played for Bernstein in the LSO several times. He described him as "A horrible, horrible c**t" An audience favourite, but not the orchestra's favourite!
I seem to remember the Dick Cavett show having used this as it's theme music for part of its incarnation. I could easily be wrong, but it's one of my favorites.
I also attribute my deep lifelong love for music of all types to Leonard Bernstein's Music for Young People shows on TV. He did have his quirks, as do all of us, but he was brilliant and worked to educate musicians and to promote the careers of young talented people.
oh my goodness my high school played this piece my freshman year for marching season and boy it was beautiful! our theme was "A Night At The Opera" and we played this piece, Nessun Dorma, and Dance of the Jesters. It was magnificent! Bernstein is just great
Oh, I love it so. Thanks for posting the synched version-- I've always found the other one too painful to watch. This was a delight to see how much enjoyment he was getting from it!
haha, watching Bernstein conduct cracks me up. It doesn't seem like he's keeping time, but he is creating the music coming at him. I love it.
Excellent recording of my favorite composer, and hearing it how he intended. Long live the spirit of Lenny in his music. It still captures my imagination!
The first time I heard this music was a jazzed-up version on the old Irv Kupcinet show in New York via PBS back in the 70's. I had no idea then what a revered piece of music it was, I just knew that I loved it! Thanks for uploading it in its complete and fully synched glory! BTW, why so touchy about the distinction?
ah, thank you for posting a syncronized version of this video, I was trying to follow along with the music to the original video and was getting a little frustrated cuz I can't mentally line them up!
This Overture is AMAZING! I got a chance to conduct this in my conducting class at college. It was so much fun especially with the espressivo part with the violas and cellos at 1:22. It's such an amazing melody and it is just so beautiful. I really loved conducting that part.
yep! We got the condensed score for it. Idk if there's a full score but yea. lol. I absolutely love it. It's a difficult piece to conduct. Loads of cues and normally that wouldn't be hard, but cueing with different hands a lot. It gets hard for me. lol.
My school's band was slowly sightreading this peice for a little while. It's gonna be quite a challenge for me to get it up to speed... I look forward to it. :D
These are professional musicians. They don't really need him to give them a steady tempo - they can maintain it on their own. Instead, he serves to give the musicians the "feel" they should portray.
I love this piece so much, and the way Bernstein is conducting in this video is the best!!!!! I just love how he's dancing at that one point. Also the bassoonist is pretty funny at the beginning when he plays that fast part, he reminds me of a frog. :p Haha but overall I love this piece and especially this video of it.
So I'm a senior in highs school right, ok well I have to teach these little 7th graders how to play and count and slur and pretty much the basics. Well, let them listen to this and they were literally dumbstruck. I let them hear it before class started, they played much better after hearing what a true orchestra sounds like. It was an amazing moment.
We're playing this piece in my band at school. We're the Texas State Honor Band and we'll be performing it at the TMEA conference in San Antonio in a couple weeks. I'm so excited. We go faster than this, though.
ok... the horn player did not screw up... its supposed to sound like that. the piece makes fun of itself, and the use of weird harmonics does so. ta da! im amazing haha
oh much better. I have to practice this for IMEA state auditions and the first video of it freaked me out because I thought it was all crazy and off. Now i feel a little better. Thanks for the video!
I am sorry to say that your band director told you what it is in the business an "old wives tale". As with all transcriptions for band of living composers, permission is gotten from the composer himself through the publisher. In this case LB's own publisher G Schirmer had authorized Beeler's transcription. It just so happened that Boosey and Hawkes, another LB publisher had reissued Candide and Bernstein authorized Grundman to transcribe Candide again at the same time he authorized Slava.
wow!! i also love the way bernstein moves with it!! its soo funny! i played this piece playing 2nd trombone and the part is ace...in the middle (lyrical bit!) we'd all breakk out into song! (we weren't playing at the time!) I love this piece and i listen to it so much 9i really don't have much of a life!
and i also love how people argue over videos on the internet.. because we all know that if each one of these people saw the other in person, they would most likely not have the balls to say anything. it's quite comical.
I love watching Bernstein conduct. However, this is one of those rare pieces where I actually prefer the concert band arrangement by Clare Grundman. Does anybody know if Bernstein ever conducted that version?
Actually, my band director just gave a lecture on Bernstein and Candide, and he says that the Grundman version is actually a further modification of Walter Beeler's arrangement. Apparently, Beeler and Bernstein both attended school together at one point, and Bernstein strongly disliked him. When he heard about Beeler's arrangement, he got the publisher to stop producing it. He then had Clare, whom he was friends with, arrange it. It turns out both versions are quite similar after all.
We need to do something about this!!!! Seriously, did they not read your disclaimer? It is clearly spelled out on Bernstein's podium. My band director made it CRYSTAL clear that this is an overture, not a song, lied, or any form of vocal performance. We played pretty fast, but not as fast as them LOL. How does that old drum major move so fast?
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that old "drum major" is Leonard Bernstein who composed the piece. Outside of the marching band setting the conductor is not called a "drum major" but simply as the a conductor.
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for someone to make such a fuss about the misnomers between a song and piece, it makes it even more obnoxious that you would fail to credit whichever orchestra bernstein is conducting in the video. go choke on your sax reed you faux-pretentious prick. you're the worst kind of musician: someone too oblivious to see forest for the trees and therefore bring everyone down to their minute level of irrelevance to hide the fact they have no intelligence or talent, and certainly never will.
Well, ignoring the obvious flaming of that message, all I'll say is that deleting comments because they refer to this overture as a song is hardly fussing, seeing as I put up a notice at the beginning of the video I posted. If someone such as yourself feels so inclined to call this a song, by all means go to the other (horrendously out-of-sync) video and post "NICE SONG" on it 'till your heart's content. Oh, and it even has the London Orchestra credited! So you'll be really happy!
Thank you for preserving Bernstein's legacy and dignity. I know that he would be turning over in his grave if he knew that people were ignorantly referring to his overture as a measly "song."
This is important.
People need to learn proper nomenclature if they ever expect to be taken seriously on YouTube comment boards! I agree with your personal stance on zero-song tolerance. Bravo! We need to clean up this website. You and me.
yes, but in actuality there ARE songs in this overture. Glitter and Be Gay is one of them Usually the pieces in overtures have the main songs in them to highlight the show.
In a modern world of too much vocal music, and not enough instrumental music, people tend to refer to any piece of music a "song", which is vulgar and incorrect. A song is a VOCAL related musical piece. This particular selection is an overture with no lyrical parts whatsoever.
Ah... Bernstein. A director I once had attended a master class Bernstein gave on conducting. Essentially all that Bernstein said was thus: It's fine as long as your hand moves up.
This is from an era where the Overture to a Broadway show was as important as the opening number.
Always a favourite. I loved watching Lenny conduct in such a {{{{small}}} way, so unlike his extrovert demeanor when conducting, say, Mahler. He clearly loved Candide, as do I.
Thanks for posting this wonderful bit of Bernstein history.
this song is soooooooooo much fun to play! im playing it rite now in my band class. and i must say that the trumpet player's beard is very....long. and the bassoon player is rather amusing to watch XD
I don't think I have ever seen a conductor enjoy the music quite as much as Leonard Bernstein. I love how he basically dances the whole way through. Not only was he an amazing composer but he was also a fantastic conductor.
look at the trumpet players gnarly beard at :17:D amazing how he conducts. i'm trying to imagine what he's communicating to the musicians O.O
even while sight reading this down for wind ensemble people didn't get the syncopation and accenting right at 3:24. drove me nuts D: super psyched to play this in a couple months. ever since i've heard this two years ago it's been on my bucket list to play:P don't know if i'll ever get the chance again since i'm not a performance major. Business ftw ^^
rightxbackxatcha 3 months ago
At 2:32, Bernstein is like "Hell yeah, I wrote this groove."
ReverendNegar 4 months ago
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RocketRodder 4 months ago
<3 leonard. his dancing is superb at 0:28 so cute lol
kevinpark140 5 months ago
I REALLY would love a version of this on youtube that is both high-quality AND synched...
conorconnor 6 months ago
One of my favorite pieces of music evererer
MrMistycakes 7 months ago
I feel as if the clouds of heaven open up at 4:20.
bbbiggs 9 months ago
@bbbiggs That figure makes me want to pick up french horn again so I can play it.
DubiousKing 9 months ago
i found a video of the ny phil performing this ditrected by their concertmaster. it seems to have disappeared from youtube. does anyone have a link to this?
TEgnoto89 9 months ago
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what year was this performed? late 80's?
Lalumia4 11 months ago
what year was this performed? late 80's?
Lalumia4 11 months ago
@Lalumia4 1989
FifthMallet 6 months ago
I completely ♥ this conductor. He's like, "I'm just gonna groove, ya'll know what to do."
nerdynerd3 11 months ago
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Seven people wouldn't know amazing music or musicians if they, well, they just WOULDN'T!!!!
memphisbandman 11 months ago
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memphisbandman 11 months ago
i really like the violing mass entry at 1:35
lachmyster 11 months ago
Moses on Trumpet!!
orangebhuddy29 11 months ago 2
epic beard man is epic
direwolf404 1 year ago 4
Concertmaster intensity at 2:30
Jellin'.
hislove4ever7 1 year ago
Thank you SO much!
molinmusic 1 year ago
A very nice piece.
seektheforce 1 year ago
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hilarious!!! 3:05 looks like bernstein has to go!
charuprakash1 1 year ago
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charuprakash1 1 year ago
What music! Maybe this seems selfish but I've always wished Bernstein would have gotten conductor wrist or tennis elbow... anything so he would have spent more time composing rather than waving the stupid stick. Even the best directors are forgotten eventually... but can write this?
mccheese0 1 year ago
@mccheese0 Unfair generality. He is -still- beloved for his conducting. Note the 60-CD Symphonic set just released (which I bought). His role in bringing Mahler to the fore would have been enough, but he did so so much more. None of this is to take away from his compositions, most of which I adore.
Mahler has been dead for 100 years, and his conducting and interpretation of numerous works are still discussed and studied.
glomph 1 year ago
I like how Moses is playing the trumpet
laqerhill 1 year ago 3
@laqerhill Haha, nice -laughs-
spockezri 1 year ago
Yeah! Bearded Trumpet FTW! :D
xXJawruWolfXx 1 year ago
"Song" is a problem. I have to agree with GeneralDAS about the overall dumbing-down of the language of music appreciation, as it were. In part we can thank Apple and its ubiquitous iPad, iPhone, i-everything, for creating a culture of "songs" that can be downloaded for 99 cents or whatever. So now we an entire Wagner opera a song, or a Mahler symphony.
Welcome to iWorld. Let's iSing.
FredrickII 1 year ago
wow this piece brings back great memories of when i was a highschool freshman and my school marching band marched to this great piece. It was hard playing it but we managed to perfect it on tempo 400
XxChrisxcrossx 1 year ago
wow this piece brings back great memories of when i was a highschool freshman and my school marching band marched to this great piece. It was hard playing it but we managed to perfect it on tempo 400
XxChrisxcrossx 1 year ago
bernstein, what a hero. we just played an arrangement of this amazing piece for clarinet choir, wow the clarinet 1 part is hard... especially at like 168 ha!
jamesmelling2 1 year ago
great video and thanks for the sync up, although i too have to take some umbrage at getting so worked up about the word "song". in this day an age to the average music fan (which we have nearly all been) the word "song" is interchangeable with piece, overture, lied, madrigal, tune - whatever you want to call it. it's like the word tannoy, which is also misused. being ignorant would be to dislike the music, but being uninformed should not be penalised.
corda1983 1 year ago
@corda1983 How is it uniformed? My note at the beginning obviously shows something is wrong with using it. Thus, people that post comments otherwise are just being smart-asses, or being completely defiant. The latter is perfectly fine with me, just as long as it's on someones else's comment page..
GeneralDAS 1 year ago
If you're arguing semantics or etymology to be more specific, you're opening up a very large can of worms, as many of the words we use in regular speech have different meanings that have diverged quite significantly from their original meanings.
While I and some others try to avoid incorrect usages of words, there's no way to get it all 100% correct without speaking in an archaic dialect.
tetrisclock 10 months ago
yes, THANK YOU for synching this up. the other version drove me crazy watching it - everyone just a split second off!!!
lavache15 1 year ago
i played this in my high school wind ensemble my junior year of high school 4 years ago. we were 2 points away from a perfect score at our competition with this piece. i loved playing this so much!
hpyft07 1 year ago
AWESOME piece of music ! :)
MyFluteMyLife 1 year ago
Yeah people should start referring to things like this as pieces. Really.
bumbulizer 1 year ago
I'm really not sure it's cool to delete comments referring to this as a song... Some people probably don't have that much musical experience, and will refer to everything as a song... Other than that, it's good to have a synchronized version.
sireofzelda 1 year ago 3
Damn, this song gives me a hard on.
Seriously though, thanks for syncing the music.
Also seriously though, it doesn't help to be so high and mighty and against people's tendency to refer to all music as a bunch of 'songs'. If someone enjoys this piece enough to comment on it, why silence their praise? You know what they meant, even if the terms are wrong.
Not a flame, just some advice.
pianodan10 1 year ago 7
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I am not trying to be high and mighty. I am trying to preserve the respect this kind of music deserves, and using correct terminology is part of that respect. While you are right that I should not silence praise, when someone says "song", it's just one of those things that makes me grind my teeth. It's ignorance to me. So call it what you will. Maybe I don't have any real convincing arguments for it. But I still uploaded the video, and I will still do what I please.
GeneralDAS 1 year ago
@GeneralDAS
Point taken. Thanks for this excellent music!
pianodan10 1 year ago
@pianodan10 Sorry I'm with General on this, the term "song" is just plain-out wrong, it's an overture, or this piece, but please not song, no one is singing!! It really massively grates with me, when people call it song. The stange thing it seems to be an American thing, I've not heard my kids at school in the UK refer to pieces of music other than real songs, as songs.
lipkinasl 1 year ago
There is something with Bernstein... Looks like he's jamming away with classical music. he's just so absorbed in it
TheKevinV08 1 year ago
Leonard Bernstein is such a cute conductor. I would hate to have to rely on him from the downbeat, but his dancing is so adorable. ^_^
sweetlilaud 1 year ago 3
This is an amazing piece to play, I was so excited when my high school band decided to play this. This was my first experience with a Bernstein piece, and its obvious he was an amazing musician and the fact he dances on the podium makes it 10 times better. Woo Lenny!
altosax05 1 year ago
A song, a piece, an overture, a box social, who cares!
bratwurstle 1 year ago
Cymbals at the 2nd time repeat at :53. The last note...kinda late lol.
MetalGinger 1 year ago
The flute and piccolo solos sound really fun, and the 1st chair first violin solo is sweeeeet.
MultiFailBot 1 year ago
i am playing the flute part....im1st chair..and although my solo sounds good i still get nervous :(
Heidi408 1 year ago
its sooo hard to play it that fast (my mouth hurts T-T )
KittyOtaku 1 year ago
this oveture is AMAZING! we're playing a revised version in band right now, but this one is so much cooler. it flows so much better, the clarinet section is definately more confident than ours, and its so much better with strings.
Bernstein is awesome! he makes me laugh with how enthusiastic he is. i wish he would come and conduct our band for a day... but he's dead now, isn't he? idk
Spottedtalon21 2 years ago
bernstein is halarious....but he lookes like a fun conductor and with his dancing.....im pretty sure i can almost hear someof the analogies he uses for the sections of the song. a very beautiful peice
aliraebetz 2 years ago
such a great piece.... words cannot describe how much I love this piece, lol
crowderfan10 2 years ago
I believe a professor of mine got it right on the nose when he referred to the conducting of Bernstein as "musical masturbation"
sinatrabooth89 2 years ago 9
My band played this freshman year. This is my all-time favorite piece; it alternates between beautiful, powerful, and frantic yet blends them into something more. If only my band was as good this year.
spanishflunker 2 years ago
lol the amazon ad on this video says "buy song"
dancetoska 2 years ago 50
had a ball playing the piccolo part
shstlute17 2 years ago 3
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calebmarimba 2 years ago
Ah, wonderful. Always one of my favorites. I'm just sad that the orchestra I'm in now can't do it, as we could never find enough brass. (I'm going to pretend that this is the only problem, and not that it's just too hard overall. :-P )
And Bernstein is adorable! The way he starts bouncing at 2:33 makes me giggle out loud.
aylid 2 years ago 3
That last impact he showed conveys exactly how it sounds / should feel to the players and audience. Best maneuver ever :)
BtoCtrill 2 years ago
The opening of this piece makes me think of a busy metropolis, with people crossing the street, taxi cabs, street vendors, and police patrolling the streets.
mrgrant888 2 years ago 3
3:44 to end= perfection
LHSTrumpet2013 2 years ago
I would cut my foot of with a rusty butterknife if it only meant I could have him as a conductor for a day.
rockclimber21 2 years ago 41
@rockclimber21 My old teacher at college played for Bernstein in the LSO several times. He described him as "A horrible, horrible c**t" An audience favourite, but not the orchestra's favourite!
schnozz87 1 year ago
I seem to remember the Dick Cavett show having used this as it's theme music for part of its incarnation. I could easily be wrong, but it's one of my favorites.
I also attribute my deep lifelong love for music of all types to Leonard Bernstein's Music for Young People shows on TV. He did have his quirks, as do all of us, but he was brilliant and worked to educate musicians and to promote the careers of young talented people.
ChefMimsy 2 years ago
This is just one of the greatest pieces of music of all time.
So powerful. Brilliant.
Still think that Bernstein was a better composer than conducter, but uh, what do I know, eh?
xxJonathanOMalleyxx 2 years ago 2
oh my goodness my high school played this piece my freshman year for marching season and boy it was beautiful! our theme was "A Night At The Opera" and we played this piece, Nessun Dorma, and Dance of the Jesters. It was magnificent! Bernstein is just great
musicismylife1551 2 years ago
were playing this in band, its the funnest piece ever! I love 1:22 its soooo pretty, and I have the main melody ^^
smexyrainbowz 2 years ago
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smexyrainbowz 2 years ago
Oh, I love it so. Thanks for posting the synched version-- I've always found the other one too painful to watch. This was a delight to see how much enjoyment he was getting from it!
jexiagalleta 2 years ago
haha, watching Bernstein conduct cracks me up. It doesn't seem like he's keeping time, but he is creating the music coming at him. I love it.
Excellent recording of my favorite composer, and hearing it how he intended. Long live the spirit of Lenny in his music. It still captures my imagination!
TexanTrooper 2 years ago 2
I played oboe in the pit for Candide in high school. This piece stirs up some fond memories.
calderwis 2 years ago
The first time I heard this music was a jazzed-up version on the old Irv Kupcinet show in New York via PBS back in the 70's. I had no idea then what a revered piece of music it was, I just knew that I loved it! Thanks for uploading it in its complete and fully synched glory! BTW, why so touchy about the distinction?
Blackwolff9 2 years ago
1:22 is beautifulll
3:25 is my fav. part lol...
HiBye533 2 years ago
Lol... we're playing this in YOCJ in the Symphonic Orchestra. Sooo phun :D
And beautiful in some parts...
HiBye533 2 years ago
presumably this isn't Candide as in Volatire?
enigmaticandelusive 2 years ago
Actually it is. It's Bernstein's opera based on the Voltaire work.
JDHandshoe 2 years ago 3
Bernstein's Candide is a comic operetta based on Voltaire's novel.
The show was an initial flop, though it has gained a cult-like status, and the Overture is a very popular choice for orchestras around the world.
piratebastard1 2 years ago
2:30 is my favorite part
eissirk 2 years ago
My high school band is playing this for our spring concert in a few weeks. I love it; it's so fun to play!
gravexdiggerxx 2 years ago
ah, thank you for posting a syncronized version of this video, I was trying to follow along with the music to the original video and was getting a little frustrated cuz I can't mentally line them up!
yamilettrujillo 2 years ago
overtueeeee
737go 2 years ago
This Overture is AMAZING! I got a chance to conduct this in my conducting class at college. It was so much fun especially with the espressivo part with the violas and cellos at 1:22. It's such an amazing melody and it is just so beautiful. I really loved conducting that part.
rybred2011 2 years ago
This is my final for my conducting class in college right now!
marchingsoutherner09 2 years ago
Ahh!!! You are so lucky! Are you doing the whole thing?
rybred2011 2 years ago
yep! We got the condensed score for it. Idk if there's a full score but yea. lol. I absolutely love it. It's a difficult piece to conduct. Loads of cues and normally that wouldn't be hard, but cueing with different hands a lot. It gets hard for me. lol.
marchingsoutherner09 2 years ago
My school's band was slowly sightreading this peice for a little while. It's gonna be quite a challenge for me to get it up to speed... I look forward to it. :D
OreoFlavouredSonata 2 years ago
Our school band is doing it too, we are a just little under tempo but weve been working on it for a while
redsox1006 2 years ago
what school do you go to?
DBHSSOUSA5 2 years ago
We've been working on parts of it quite under tempo... It's a level higher peice than we usually do... But I have confidence in us... :)
OreoFlavouredSonata 2 years ago
my school is doing it for the school concert..its getting really good
benarie8 2 years ago
what school do you go to?
DBHSSOUSA5 2 years ago
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DBHSSOUSA5 2 years ago
I would totally get confused and lost with his conducting.
lol
RudyTpt18 2 years ago
These are professional musicians. They don't really need him to give them a steady tempo - they can maintain it on their own. Instead, he serves to give the musicians the "feel" they should portray.
AaronGoldfein 2 years ago
I love this piece so much, and the way Bernstein is conducting in this video is the best!!!!! I just love how he's dancing at that one point. Also the bassoonist is pretty funny at the beginning when he plays that fast part, he reminds me of a frog. :p Haha but overall I love this piece and especially this video of it.
Oathkeeper1992 2 years ago 2
this is my favorite piece of all time.
i was crying then laughing then jumping out of my seat!
lilnaruto305 2 years ago
I love this song. :P jk
Seriously, though this is one of my favorite pieces by one of my favorite composers.
dancetoska 2 years ago
I've thought this piece was incredible from the first time I ever heard it.
drumbum421xx 2 years ago
I love this piece. I just love it.
ObeseSheep 2 years ago
What a genius composer... :o The form of this Overture is amazing. All the Operette is amazing... Glitter And Be Gay :o AMAZING
DuchMole 2 years ago
my high school band is playin this i'm playing 1st and 2nd trumpet (2nd)
natesofresh 2 years ago
anyone know the name of the cool trumpet player with the crazy hair at 3:45 ?
tubamatt642 2 years ago
that is the one and only Johannes Brahms himself... that dude looks just like him...
o-O
1h0tsistah 2 years ago
well im a saxophone player and i heard it
it sounded like a lip slur
like he accidentally played the next lowest pitch for that fingering
NLChilla2 3 years ago
So I'm a senior in highs school right, ok well I have to teach these little 7th graders how to play and count and slur and pretty much the basics. Well, let them listen to this and they were literally dumbstruck. I let them hear it before class started, they played much better after hearing what a true orchestra sounds like. It was an amazing moment.
yamahadrummergirl 3 years ago
We're playing this piece in my band at school. We're the Texas State Honor Band and we'll be performing it at the TMEA conference in San Antonio in a couple weeks. I'm so excited. We go faster than this, though.
1288358 3 years ago
that's riduculous! this is pretty fast already.
htmlfreak 2 years ago
this is slow compared to his NYP recording
jabsomdoc 2 years ago
ok... the horn player did not screw up... its supposed to sound like that. the piece makes fun of itself, and the use of weird harmonics does so. ta da! im amazing haha
PainWds 3 years ago
oh much better. I have to practice this for IMEA state auditions and the first video of it freaked me out because I thought it was all crazy and off. Now i feel a little better. Thanks for the video!
Halfbloodalchemist 3 years ago
2:31
He's dancing lol
oblisk94xxx 3 years ago
Bleh I'm so bored.... I have to play this for the concert on violin.
Lemondrop76 3 years ago
this *syncing* is still off.
jaclynloraso 3 years ago 3
well im a trumpet player and i heard it
it sounded like a french horn
like he accidentally picked the wrong instrument or something
Rikou909 3 years ago
Hehe.... song. *Dodges lightning*
iKangaroorat 3 years ago
well im a bassoon player and i heard it
it sounded like a lip slur
like he accidentally played the next lowest pitch for that fingering
Vw50mpg 3 years ago
Why are you people saying the exact same thing??
Halfbloodalchemist 3 years ago
well im a cymbals player and i heard it
it sounded like a lip slur
like he accidentally played the next lowest pitch for that fingering.
xtheblueonex 3 years ago
I am sorry to say that your band director told you what it is in the business an "old wives tale". As with all transcriptions for band of living composers, permission is gotten from the composer himself through the publisher. In this case LB's own publisher G Schirmer had authorized Beeler's transcription. It just so happened that Boosey and Hawkes, another LB publisher had reissued Candide and Bernstein authorized Grundman to transcribe Candide again at the same time he authorized Slava.
bayridgemaestro 3 years ago
wow!! i also love the way bernstein moves with it!! its soo funny! i played this piece playing 2nd trombone and the part is ace...in the middle (lyrical bit!) we'd all breakk out into song! (we weren't playing at the time!) I love this piece and i listen to it so much 9i really don't have much of a life!
Josephineeeeeeeee 3 years ago
Only a horn player would notice something like that. lol
Eversica 3 years ago 2
But I didn't hear it... Weird.
furirox4ever 3 years ago
well im a flute player and i heard it
it sounded like a lip slur
like he accidentally played the next lowest pitch for that fingering
ihateu20 3 years ago
well im a horn player and i heard it
it sounded like a lip slur
like he accidentally played the next lowest pitch for that fingering.
hornguy04 3 years ago
at 3:00, the horn player screws up.
CptSchmidt 3 years ago 4
Ah ok I heard it. its very minor, very hard to notice.
Halfbloodalchemist 3 years ago
i love this video and i love bernstein.
and i also love how people argue over videos on the internet.. because we all know that if each one of these people saw the other in person, they would most likely not have the balls to say anything. it's quite comical.
sarahwaffle 3 years ago 4
I love watching Bernstein conduct. However, this is one of those rare pieces where I actually prefer the concert band arrangement by Clare Grundman. Does anybody know if Bernstein ever conducted that version?
yazarc 3 years ago
Actually, my band director just gave a lecture on Bernstein and Candide, and he says that the Grundman version is actually a further modification of Walter Beeler's arrangement. Apparently, Beeler and Bernstein both attended school together at one point, and Bernstein strongly disliked him. When he heard about Beeler's arrangement, he got the publisher to stop producing it. He then had Clare, whom he was friends with, arrange it. It turns out both versions are quite similar after all.
SyntheticProsthetic 3 years ago
OMG! i love how bernstein dances on the podium!! so hilarious!
rotkrox1521 3 years ago
"Download This Song: iTunes; amazon mp3"
We need to do something about this!!!! Seriously, did they not read your disclaimer? It is clearly spelled out on Bernstein's podium. My band director made it CRYSTAL clear that this is an overture, not a song, lied, or any form of vocal performance. We played pretty fast, but not as fast as them LOL. How does that old drum major move so fast?
EighteenTwentySeven 3 years ago 14
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that old "drum major" is Leonard Bernstein who composed the piece. Outside of the marching band setting the conductor is not called a "drum major" but simply as the a conductor.
macuser08 3 years ago
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for someone to make such a fuss about the misnomers between a song and piece, it makes it even more obnoxious that you would fail to credit whichever orchestra bernstein is conducting in the video. go choke on your sax reed you faux-pretentious prick. you're the worst kind of musician: someone too oblivious to see forest for the trees and therefore bring everyone down to their minute level of irrelevance to hide the fact they have no intelligence or talent, and certainly never will.
sdjbass 3 years ago
Well, ignoring the obvious flaming of that message, all I'll say is that deleting comments because they refer to this overture as a song is hardly fussing, seeing as I put up a notice at the beginning of the video I posted. If someone such as yourself feels so inclined to call this a song, by all means go to the other (horrendously out-of-sync) video and post "NICE SONG" on it 'till your heart's content. Oh, and it even has the London Orchestra credited! So you'll be really happy!
GeneralDAS 3 years ago
Thank you for preserving Bernstein's legacy and dignity. I know that he would be turning over in his grave if he knew that people were ignorantly referring to his overture as a measly "song."
This is important.
People need to learn proper nomenclature if they ever expect to be taken seriously on YouTube comment boards! I agree with your personal stance on zero-song tolerance. Bravo! We need to clean up this website. You and me.
MichaelTuba 3 years ago 38
Calling and Overture a "song" is just as bad if not worse then calling a Drum Corps a "band".. BIG MISTAKE!
yamahadrummergirl 3 years ago 8
doesn't a song imply there are lyrics?
d30few 3 years ago
Yeah, that's what people don't understand.
yamahadrummergirl 3 years ago
yes, but in actuality there ARE songs in this overture. Glitter and Be Gay is one of them Usually the pieces in overtures have the main songs in them to highlight the show.
Spiceofmadrid 2 years ago
This is true, but the the piece as a whole is not a "song".
GeneralDAS 2 years ago
yep. a song is a vocal piece. and there's no vocals in it.
Spiceofmadrid 2 years ago
What's up with the trumpet player's beard? Looks like Brahms :)
TadayukionBand 3 years ago 2
If people like this as a "song" is it all that bad?Y would the uploader delete comments from these people??:S
lofiguy 3 years ago
In a modern world of too much vocal music, and not enough instrumental music, people tend to refer to any piece of music a "song", which is vulgar and incorrect. A song is a VOCAL related musical piece. This particular selection is an overture with no lyrical parts whatsoever.
GeneralDAS 3 years ago
You're just being too annal.
ParadeChili 3 years ago
Maybe someone should be more "annal" about your proof-reading...
GeneralDAS 3 years ago
LOLLL. so many of you guys are playing this!
dude NY allstate is playing this piece as well as the firebird suite. SWEET. maybe i'll see some of you guys there =].
joonhwex 3 years ago
Heh... Holy fuck, I will never be able to play it that fast... But it's a dazzling piece.
JoeDaPokemonMasta1 3 years ago
haha all like all state orchestras are playing this
i'm also going to be playing this for coda this year
xbbtiffywhiffyx 3 years ago
WOO NH allstate orchestra is playing this song this year too.
xxteenlobotomyx 3 years ago
Oh God. it goes so quickly!
I'm going to die playing this for CODA.
kimcheeeee42 3 years ago
cool were playin this in my school band.
Jupiter2900 3 years ago 2
cool my band did this last year
LHSleadtrumpet 3 years ago
I came on here to listen to this because I got the intense urge to hear "Overture to Candide"... such a great work.
usmike1290 3 years ago
did this guy right this or something?
cannotsitorstand 3 years ago
Oh,Damn,Our Orcheastra Needs to preform this for a summer compatition,i dont think we are going to preforme Lol O_O
PizzaPayYan101 3 years ago
i freaking love him and his dance moves!
sarahwaffle 3 years ago
First of all, the annotation at the beginning is awesome.
Secondly, thank you for the synchronization effort. The Bernstein groove at 0:29 is lost without it. ;)
eliseg518 3 years ago
Ah... Bernstein. A director I once had attended a master class Bernstein gave on conducting. Essentially all that Bernstein said was thus: It's fine as long as your hand moves up.
Gotta <3 Bernstein.
linuxlife 3 years ago
Still a bit out of sync, but great video!
carteru93 3 years ago
This is from an era where the Overture to a Broadway show was as important as the opening number.
Always a favourite. I loved watching Lenny conduct in such a {{{{small}}} way, so unlike his extrovert demeanor when conducting, say, Mahler. He clearly loved Candide, as do I.
Thanks for posting this wonderful bit of Bernstein history.
wjuneau 3 years ago
I like how he stops conducting to watch and enjoy the band, then comes back at integral moments to lead.
Mudd248 3 years ago
he is the best at 30 seconds
fropoy 3 years ago
the conducter is pretty funny to watch
fropoy 3 years ago
No matter how many times i hear this it still sounds frech and modern, thnk u so much 4 posting, Alan
lofiguy 3 years ago
It's too funny. The director is funny.
09BPainter 3 years ago
not really, it's just the feeling of the piece. The motion of the ocean. The will of the musical spirit. And when it moves you, you have to act.
Repperil 3 years ago
great music
pancake9173 3 years ago
my bad, this overture
dedlyduo1217 3 years ago
this song is soooooooooo much fun to play! im playing it rite now in my band class. and i must say that the trumpet player's beard is very....long. and the bassoon player is rather amusing to watch XD
dedlyduo1217 3 years ago
This is one of my favorite overtures ever.
dekarno 3 years ago
I don't think I have ever seen a conductor enjoy the music quite as much as Leonard Bernstein. I love how he basically dances the whole way through. Not only was he an amazing composer but he was also a fantastic conductor.
bassbaritoneguy 3 years ago
I love the bassoon guy at 1:10!
octopus237 3 years ago
lmao at 2:33!
1288358 3 years ago
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OK, I'm not referring to that as a song, but as a simple STUPID ACADEMIC MAOIST SHIT.
mavaalaura 3 years ago