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Uploaded by on Jun 27, 2007

Bellagio Fountains "Simple Gifts"

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  • Cool video and beautiful display. Ironic though that the fountains extravagance stands for a lot of of what Quakers were against.

  • @imanerd36 Thanks! Lol, I never thought of it that way. :)

  • I love this Shaker Melody and I love the Bellagio.  Very cool video.. thanks for posting :)

  • no prob, glad you liked it.

  • Thanks for posting this! I remember seeing the fountains for the first time just prior to the Bellagio's opening in 1998. The song that was used when I witnessed it for the first time? Simple Gifts. It's almost a decade later and I'm still surprised--and *very* glad--that it's still used in the fountain lineup!

  • no, prob. yeah very nice song, a classic.

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  • the Shakers built the Bellagio, keeping in mind plain and funtionable

  • Not a 60s musical "or something," but a 1943 ballet. While Copland did indeed not "invent" the tune, it was all but forgotten when he adapted it for Appalachian Spring. "Simple Gifts" is, thus, rightfully associated with his name.

  • Nice. Mid-19th century, then.

  • "Simple Gifts", 1848, by Elder Joseph Brackett, written at the Alfred Shaker Village in Alfred, Maine.

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