Candide - Make our garden grow (Groves/Chenoweth/LuPone/Allen/Blumenkrantz/LaManna)
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- Make our garden grow
Candide: Paul Groves
Cunegonde: Kristin Chenoweth
Old Lady: Patti LuPone
Dr. Pangloss: Sir Thomas Allen
Maximilian: Jeff Blumenkrantz
Paquette: Janine LaManna
Vanderdendur/Prince Ragotski: Stanford Olsen
Governor/Prefect: John Herrera
Baron/Inquisitor/Don Issachar/Cacambo: Michael McCormick
Judge/Captain/Crook: Michael McElroy
Heresy agent/Archbishop/Priest: Ray Wills
Baroness/Sheep: Gina Ferrall
Sheep: Patty Globe
Westminister Symphonic Choir
New York Philarmonic
Conductor: Marin Alsop
Music: Leonard Bernstein
Perhaps we should remember that Candide is not a fairy tale about happy endings. It's a fairy tale about how to live in a world full of injustice, horrors, greed, stupidity, wars. & disease. The metaphor is" make our garden grow". Incrementally, make that life, make that garden better. There is no magic wand, no deus ex machina ending, no knight in shining armor, only the billion individual deeds that billions of individuals should do to grow our earthy garden.
When I had the opportunity to perform this, i was young and did't understand the context. Now older and having seen more life, this moves me to tears everytime.
"Let dreamers dream what worlds they please; those Edens can't be found; the sweetest flowers, the fairest trees All grow in solid ground." A Hymn for the Age of Enlightenment!
Yes! Beautifully articulated synopsis!
Beautifully explained. may I use it on our written program?
Needed to read this today thank you!
This was definately a high point in my career. I was playing tuba.
I have done the show on tuba too!! I honestly think would quite happy doing the show every night till I drop. Wonderful memories in dark times.
Thanks for your contribution to this epic performance.
Nice, Kyle, it's a peak performance all around, and there you are as a foundation. Everything is so tight and perfect, everyone is ON...
Agree 100%, Kyle! (That’s me on Trumpet 2.)
@@bradsiroky2588 hey Brad! Who was at the trombone? Sounds from another galaxy also
This is the most sacred secular song of all time!
BEST. COMMENT. EVER.
I'm down but is it actually secular though?...
@@kuabciIt is, because it doesn’t mention a deity.
@@GiftSparks really, read the psalms the beauty of the world stands as His testament
This is one of the wisest and most beautiful songs ever written.
Yes. As a boy at summer camp in the Adirondacks, we were taught always to leave the campsite better than we found it. It's a good metaphor for life and for me this song expresses it beautifully.
Looking at the assembled "photos" from the Webb telescope, it is fair to ask, "So, does your stuff really matter all that much?" And art like this is at least one affirmative answer. We can understand how trivial we are in the Grand Scheme of things, and at the same time be passionate about our tiny miracle of life on this little rock hurtling through space.
I love how the morale is that the world isn't perfect or pure, but that doesn't mean you can't be happy.
I don’t know about the rest of you guys, but when the entire choir joins in, and it’s just voices, oh, it’s sooooooooo good!
Then you'll love this ending song from Children of Eden. Ear buds/headsets are a must. th-cam.com/video/meZ3TR5AXO4/w-d-xo.html
Watch this song performed at Kennedy honors Steven Spielberg. His emotions, facial expression and connection with his wife will bring you to tears.
One of the most thrilling moments in modern musical ensemble singing.
@@mzmiller52 Everyone should watch when a segment of this is done at the 2011 Kennedy Center Honors for Barbara Cook (who appeared in Candide) - perfection.
Yeah it was a lot fun preforming that. Just found this on accident. Brought back some great memories
My health problems due to Ehlers Danlos syndrome are getting worse and worse, I did not want to celebrate my 28th birthday last month. We sang this song in college chorus when my symptoms finally got bad enough to lead to a diagnosis, and today it just came back to me, full of so many memories of that pain and meeting my wonderful and foolish husband who embraces all of me.
I have barely heard it in 8 years. Now I am finding a lot of tears and comfort...and wishing my husband and I sung it at our wedding last august. But, we're planning a renewal down the road, so it will stay on our list.
My best friend has that. Best of health to you! I am so sorry for what you are going through....
This comment made me cry.
I hope you are doing well. You would be the same age as my daughter, who has a degree in voice performance, and suffers disabling chronic pain from hypermobility syndrome. She likely
sang this in college...and if she ever marries her long-time partner, I believe Make our garden grow is on the list of music they would have.
Holy cow, I never would have guessed Paul Groves voice was like that from his speaking voice (which sounds kind of high and squeaky). He is amazing.
What an exquisite melody that is like an anthem to life itself. I was completely overawed by this beautiful performance. Bernstein ..... what a genius who like Copland, Ives and Barber can simply capture the very spirit of America in his music.
Yes. Listening during COVID-19 pandemic. Balm for the soul.
Gardening, cleaning, cooking, and baking have been keeping me sane these months. This song was always touching, but it rings even truer now.
Paul Groves has a voice like velvet, beautiful!
An amazing ensemble, and chills every time when the chorus comes in.
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and an even more gooseflesh moment when the orchestra drops out.
This is the best finale in musical theatre. The best 1st act closer is A Weekend In the Country.
There’s also You and I from Chess.
I actually attended this performance of Candide with the New York Philharmonic years ago. Marin Alsop, Bernstein's last protege, was the conductor. The performance was a marvelous realization, with clever chorus eruptions and beautiful soloists.
Wow, both are so wonderful. I love how Kristin always is on the point of cheesing it up...which fits the Voltaire style perfectly. What a voice he has.
If we are to survive this deeply troubled world, we need to live these words.
After 9/11, this is the song that kept coming to me.
after tragedy i always find myself back at this video. it brings me a lot of solace.
Hurray for Westminster Choir College Symphonic Choir! Stirring, stunning, and an amazing sound.
How beautifully Groves and Chenoweth harmonised!
The musicians are so excellent, and how they managed to keep a straight face is beyond me!
This is it. The perfect melody. Nothing finer.
he acts like a disney animal from the time of Mickey Mouse . then starts to sing like an adult with subtlety and class ... welcome to the world of music theatre!
I'd say welcome to the world of operetta
@Chris
.......I'd say......shhhhhhhhhh!!!
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I think this number marks when Candide stops trying to fit in the Panglossian world and sets out to conform to reality--and what will be right and true to him based not on theories, but nature.
Yes, a wordier way of "becoming an adult".
I am SURE the singing is dubbed.
@@ferociousgumby the vocals seem to be out of sync in this clip. But was definitely sung live.
This brought tears to my eyes, just... wow.
As someone said below, this song gives me goosebumps every time I hear it. This was a great performance of the opera, with Kristin Chenoweth dazzling and genuinely funny at times as Cunegonde. I would love to have heard the ovation at the end! Bernstein's music is masterful and a joy from start to finish. Anyone new to this should really seek out the live version Lenny did toward the end of his life: music so full of fun and pathos, there won't be a dry eye in the house!
The most poignant performance I've seen of this (on TH-cam now and on TV originally) is during a Bernstein tribute at Tanglewood, Seiji Ozawa conducting, with such musical theater historical figures as Larry Kert (original Tony in West Side Story) in the ensemble, and Maestro Bernstein is seen in the audience overcome with emotion, and ready to burst into tears.
@@BruceApar Yes, I agree. Bernstein is a VERY AMAZING conductor and composer. But in my opinion, Bernstein is not that good in conducting his own work (I mean, he is greater as a conductor when he conducted other people works). And I think the best interpreter of Bernstein music is Marin Alsop and Seiji Ozawa. I always get goosebumps when listening to their Candide (or parts).
Touching.. brings me to tears.. To me,.. a true love song.
Gives me goosebumps!
The stand out in all this is Alsop, she seems to be having the time of her life.
Candide is my all time favorite!
This is my favorite version of my favorite musical. Tears every time.
3:34 always gives me chills
holy crap
This finale always reduces me to cascading tears, but never more than in these plague years of The Thing in the Oval Office. I thank the gods Hope remained in Pandora's box before she slammed it shut.
I could not do this show. I'd be crying every night when this was being sung.
I would had loved for the video ending to be longer.....the cheers and the standing ovation must have been over the top and spine tingling. It left me with tears and chills.......
Fantastic! This is the version I was looking for (which was broadcast on PBS stations about half a dozen years ago). It was wild and crazy (and had an amazing ensemble of soloists); I had never heard the entire piece before, so when they got to this final chorus, I literally had goosebumps! Just IMO, I thought it was a phenomenal production!
You know, don't you, that the entire performance is also here on TH-cam?
Yes, I found that out, also, and thoroughly enjoyed watching it again.
This is my favorite version- the best I’ve heard! I wish I could have seen THIS production!
That song most be playit on my funeral!
+Giserke Vermeulen I want it at my wedding!
We played it at our wedding. It's our song...our story.
What a cast, what a choir... Such pure notes
What a great low range Paul Groves has!
Amazingly Beautiful!
In these times of such ugliness in the Whitehouse, let us overcome and build our house again and make our garden grow. A full house for all, a welcoming house.
Definitely true in 2021!
Absolutely magnificent. Thrilling!
I love this piece. I've sung it (4 different parts, from Cunegonde to soprano 1 and 2, to alto) and it gives me chills every time. It's perfection!
And yes, it's about living in reality and making it work regardless - don't forget that in the show, immediately after this song the cow drops dead. My only quibble about this version? For me it's too slow - it needs a little more movement to work best.
goosebumps. all over. every time.
incredible interpretation ...so natural in all sens!
Gorgeous!
I recently was in a performance that included "The Promise of Living" from Aaron Copland's opera The Tender Land. Since they were good friends, I wonder if Bernstein had that in the back of his mind when he wrote this?
Robert Rousenville and Barbara Cook were the first who sang this beautiful duet.TGhey were perfect. Groves and Chenoweth are very good too.I love this song very much
Sir Thomas Allen booming through the last "garden"!
Amazing!
Is there a more glorious moment in all of vocalism?
Heard on a decent HiFi system makes your hair stand on end - especially Kristin's.
Thrilling.
One Performance only - in New York of course!
But at least they did record it so the rest of us can see it and we have a record of the genius staging!
There was 4 performances. They recorded one
Here are the words and the ORIGINAL stage directions that may be a little surprising. The ending was not orginally meant to be quite as uplifting:
CANDIDE
You've been a fool
And so have I,
But come and be my wife.
And 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.
CUNEGONDE
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.
CANDIDE AND CUNEGONDE
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.
(ensemble enters in gardening gear and a cow walks on)
CANDIDE, CUNEGONDE, MAXIMILLIAN, PAQUETTE, OLD LADY, DR. PANGLOSS
Let dreamers dream
What worlds they please
Those Edens can't be found.
The sweetest flowers,
The fairest trees
Are grown in solid ground.
ENSEMBLE (a cappella)
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!
(The cow dies)
VOLTAIRE
Ah, me! The pox!
Was that actually the original ending, in 1956? It IS the ending of the "Chelsea Version", a stripped-down production from the mid-70s which turned the 1956 version - considered by some to be ponderous and heavy-handed - into more of a farce, and also omitted over half of the musical numbers. In Bernstein's final version (this one), Dr. Pangloss - who has seemed something of a fool - turns to the audience and asks, essentially, "Do you get it now?", an ending which I think works better in the context of Bernstein's own vision of the story.
Here's a nice Wikipedia article which goes through the various versions:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide_(operetta)
Appreciate the lyrics, by the way. It's hard to make them out when the ensemble and chorus come in, and they're well worth hearing.
I have loved this since watching the Bernstein at 70 video. This version is cleaner technically, but the Bernstein one - they're all paying tribute, they're all smiling and glowing, and Bernstein's three children are singing along with the chorus. th-cam.com/video/ey5e7buHfls/w-d-xo.html
Groves' bravura performance was so much more appropriate to the role than Jerry Hadley's.
There are a few versions of this finale but this one is my favourite. The reasons are firstly that Bernstein was a composer who crossed musical genres and the 'classical' performances are beautiful but the acting has much to be desired. Even if it's a concert version the singers need to act the parts (costumes help). The second is that the chorus aren't using scores which adds to the 'realistic' feel. The last reason is that the singers don't have huge classical vibratos which, for me, are an annoying distortion of their vocal line - especially in a 'musicals' genre. Anyone out there in You Tube land agree with me?
Paul Groves (Candide) is actually an American operatic tenor with an impressive international career. None of my favorite classical and opera singers have huge wobbly vibratos; I tend to see that simply as poor vocal production. I suspect that singers of lieder, chansons, etc. - classical art songs - are better in this regard, because it is so important to convey the meaning and nuances of the text, and less important to soar out over the whole orchestra.
I always liked Anna Russell's description of the four stages in an opera singer's life: (1) bel canto; (2) can belto; (3) can't belto; (4) can't canto.
Than which there is nothing better!
Damn.
epic
powerful
we'll chop our wood.
Kristen’s vocal teacher, Florence Birdwell, must be very proud of her.
Both Chenoweth and Kelli O'Hara studied with Ms. Birdwell. Look at the difference. Chenoweth's voice is like a right angle and O'Hara is like an arch - smooth and round.
The garden they sing of is a post-lapsarian Eden.
🎶You say “N-EYE-THUR.” I say “KNEE-THUR.”🎶
The best performers in this production are Paul Groves' legs.
You've been a fool and so have I But come and be my wife And 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 growAnd make our garden grow I thought the world was sugar cake For so our master said But now I'll teach my hands to bakeOur 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 woodAnd make our garden grow And make our garden grow Let dreamers dream what worlds they please Those Edens can be foundThe sweetest flowers, the fairest trees Are grown in solid ground We're neither pure nor wise nor good We'll do the best we knowWe'll build our house and chop our wood And make our garden grow And make our garden grow
I was in a chorus version.
THIS.
Can anyone tell me if the conductor is the same Bernstein? .He is turned back I have the version of Candide with Bernstein and the LSO. It is also Phenomenal .
Bernstein unfortunately has been dead since the 1990s. Marion Alsop I believe was the conductor for this
It's Marin Alsop. She was (still is?) principal conductor of the New York Phil.
jmsta2011 It’s been a while
Marin Alsop was never conductor of the NY Philharmonic. She has been music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra since 2007 and previously the Bournemouth Philharmonic. She is conductor of the Sao Paolo State Symphony Orchestra and Vienna Radio Symphony.
Eileen Pollock Yes. I write on Bernstein's centennial (8/25/18). The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is currently on a tour of the UK and Ireland. All the pieces selected for the tour reflect back on Bernstein in some manner.
3:46 CHILLS
Who is here 2018 or 2019
Like this? Then go listen to the last part of Mahler's 2nd Symphony "Resurrection."
Tikkun Olam
We are in 2024 and at least 50% of the population can't "tend to their own garden" as Voltaire said 😢
is this lip singing
Kristine Krause lord no
Well, they ARE singing - and they DO gave lips.
At least on my laptop, the sound and the picture are very slightly out of sync - the lips don't move exactly with the voice - but the difference is constant over the whole clip, instead of variable as it would be with re-recording ("ADR" in a movie) or lip-synching. So I believe it's a technical issue with the clip.
wow Chenoweth is absolutely, laughably in over her head here! pathetically, epically bad. #WhenEgosBloat
....wow are you undereducated! If you don't like her performance....fine, we all have our own opinion. But.......to pontificate, to condescend, to *intruct* as if you are some sort of authority?
Laughable.
............shhhhhhhhhhhh! Grown ups are talking
Kristin Chenowith was a classically trained opera singer. How does such a big voice come out of such a tiny body?
@@Kingfamilyfavorites classically trained? do you even know what that means? where was she "classically trained? The Curtis Institute? Julliard? where - be specific? *she was a beauty pageant hick*
@@rugby8-Philadelphia you ought to invest in a spell checking app, dearie, coz you sound illiterate
@@Marcel_Audubon
Lolol.....Mary, where to start?
Do you know what *illiterate* means? I'm assuming Not. You see, I *can* read, and write - however I type like crap.
Perhaps *you* should invest in a personality, so that you don't sound like a tired old queen who wishes they could sing.
Is my spelling more to your liking now? 😎😎😎