Thomas Hampson sings "Bring Him Home" from Les Miserables at the request of George HW Bush

www.ClassicalTV.com Thomas Hampson serenaded Washington's A list on 29th April including , George H W Bush (1989-1993), Obama's National Security Advisor James Jones, Colin Powell and others. Here he sings "Bring Him Home" from Les Miserables at Bush's requests - a poignant choice of song.

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[LaColoratura]

As usual, we seem to have a surplus of people with no real music knowledge or idea of voice production making uneducated comments. This was a lovely rendition of this piece. It was not in anyway out of his range as it has been tranposed from the original key. (You did know that is commonly done, didn't you?) Most of you have, unfortunately, become accustomed to untrained voices singing in musicals and pop music so you don't know a great voice when you hear it.

[Shawn200220012000200]

The Magnificent Thomas Hampson performing the Broadway classic from Les Miserables; Bring Him Home! Thomas, that was amazing! God bless you and I love you!

Love & Music, Shawn!

[Oberon90]

@LaColoratura This is a hard but good comment and as also classical trained singer I agree with you but I think as a lyric baritone which Thomas Hampson is,he could sing this song in the original key or a whole step down.Here it's not even the baritone version,it's half step lower. I've heard him in concert I know he can sing piano high f,g,a flat etc. Perhaps he felt sick this evening and decided to transpose it. It's okay. And beside that,beautiful and emotional sung!

[richdavies3293]

@LaColoratura I have to say... I'm at a conservatoire studying singing... and Thomas Hampson was at college tonight giving a masterclass to us, so I'm not at all biased but this was NOT a good rendition of the piece... It doesn't have the emotional journey and build up the song should have, it is not sung sensitively enough in places - I blame none of this on TH, it just doesn't suit his voice at all, and singing it in this way is kind of missing the point of the song.

[tmtstudio1983]

@jerryveen You can say Colm Wilkinson or Alfie Boe sing this song better in artistic term, and I agree with that. But Thomas Hampson's vocal quality is miles ahead both of them, it is the recording and sound engineering quality that make him sound bad. If Wilkinson or Boe are recorded with this low level of sound engineering quality, they probably can't sound half as good as Hampson.

[lovingee1]

So BEAUTIFUL.

Barb Todres/NYC

[JAyala7293]

Good performance, the transposing of the song is too low and I don't like the lyric change

[jdeards]

Nicely done, and a pleasure to listen to. Thank you for posting.

[jerryveen]

I'm sorry, I really hate this performance. I rather hear Wikinson or Boe. Thomas is not the best singer in my opinion. There are so many better voices

[MoscowMaestro]

I have a number for President Bush, from Broadway. It's "Gee Officer Krupke" from WEST SIDE STORY.

Or better still, LET'S ALL THROW OUR SHOES AT THE CUNT IN THE ROYAL BOX"

[PaperMateMan]

@LaColoratura agreed completely