"Make Our Garden Grow", (from "Candide"), Leonard Bernstein

"Make Our Garden Grow", (from "Candide"),
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

"Let dreamers dream what worlds they please, those Edens can't be found. So let us try before we die to make some sense of life. We're neither pure nor wise nor good; we'll do the best we know; we'll build our house, and chop our wood, and make our garden grow, and make our garden grow. I thought the world was sugar-cake, for so our master said; but now I'll teach my hands to bake our loaf of daily bread. We're neither pure nor wise nor good; we'll do the best we know; we'll build our house, and chop our wood, and make our garden grow, and make our garden grow. Let dreamers dream what worlds they please; those Edens can't be found. The sweetest flowers, the fairest trees are grown in solid ground. We're neither pure nor wise nor good; we'll do the best we know. We'll build our house, and chop our wood, and make our garden grow, and make our garden grow."

Camcorded live 20 July 2008; anthem for the morning Eucharist

Musicians (in order of entrance):

Flute, Deborah Dawson Goldman
Soprano Saxophone, Steve White
Bassoon, Wendy Large
Orchestral Triangle, Terry Perkins
Harp, Tom Lyman
Soprano solo, Jen Russell
Tenor solo, Joe Strausbaugh
Timpani, Wayne Marek
Choir, The Redeemer Choir
Cymbals, Frank Lampert-Hopkins

Music Director, Wayne Burcham-Gulotta

For anyone interested in what we're doing at Church of the Redeemer, Morristown, NJ, USA, check out our website: www.RedeemerMorristown.org

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[kalindoscopy]

lol weird that a christian choir is singing a song written by a jewish man, for an operetta based on a novel by an atheist.

[joenwayne]

Good music is good music. The faith tradition of the composer does not concern me. Thanks for viewing.

[LeoBurns728]

What a beautiful chorus! 5 ***** s for an AWESOME vid

[cornwall59]

That was very nice,its new to me,good number

of choir members,Oh i wish !

[FabioPBarbieri]

@kalindoscopy First, Episcopalians ain't Christians. Second, I would say they sing and play it so badly as to make it worse than any excommunication.

[voltaire11]

Voltaire was a Deist, not an atheist.

[kalindoscopy]

the end justifies the means? hmmm. not sure about that.

thanks for putting it up! take care.

[RomydeJesus]

Very nice!

[choralanthem]

Really nice - thanks for posting.