Candide - Auto da fe with Leonard Bernstein

[@Sackofbooks]

As much as I love this song (and I love it a lot, specifically this version), the best part of this video is watching Bernstein conduct. He has clearly stopped giving a single damn what anybody else thinks.

[@borisvandruff7532]

“Well, go ahead. Tell me, a world-class conductor, how best to conduct my own music.” That’s about how that would have gone. :-P

[@Hollis_has_questions]

I completely agree. The maestro is magnificent. I could kiss him! This is my favorite version of Candide, but I’d give anything to hear the 11/10/1968 private performance with Alan Arkin and Madeline Kahn!

[@photo161]

On the...contrary, Bernstein was the ultimate showman and always concerned with how he looked and the impression he was making.

[@sarahjones-jf4pr]

Leonard Bernstein THE PRINCE OF RHYTHM.

[@servals2384]

Bernstein is my favorite. Only he could be so happily waving his baton about as the performers sing and play a piece written by him about an execution.

[@xLesPaulGibsonx]

Such a great performance!

[@drparnassus2867]

The great Leonard Bernstein, shaking his ass.

[@rosetaylor-riley7474]

THE LITTLE DANCE AT 3:33 😂😂😂

[@guarrho]

god he has so much fun

[@stevenroberts6952]

My all time favorite

[@51ira50]

I remember a Colombia recording featuring Barbara Cook, among others,and the ensemble is so precise that all of Dorothy Parkers' words can be enjoyed. (Dorothy was but one of many greats who took Voltaire's work and ran amok with it.)

[@shoelessjoe1971]

my all time favourite conductor.... such style.

[@clarinetjo]

I can't possibly imagine one thing this great man wasn't able to do in an astonishing way ! This is the perfect interpretation of an upper quality masterpiece ! Thanks for uploading.

[@sondheiminecraft]

one word... WOW

[@camprunamok]

"What a lovely day, what a jolly day..." These stanzas are very reminiscent of Carmina Burana.

[@michaelkirchner5365]

Other parts scream West Side Story

[@danielklemm8446]

Sarcasm and art united at their highest!

[@rosetaylor-riley7474]

4:36 sounds like West Side Story

[@Nanananaheyhey1]

Rose Riley He referenced a lot of his pieces in other pieces quite regularly

[@emmarose4234]

Didn’t he originally write the melody that became “Gee, Officer Krupke” to be used in Candide?

[@thricegreatart]

He's parodying Wagner in that fanfare just before that too. Seems derived from the horns used for the thunderstorm in Das Rheingold

[@afrofinka]

The sarcastic and boisterous atmosphere of that number reminds me of Joseph Horvitz’ “Horrortorio” (very familiar to the fans of Gerard Hoffnung). Besides, Bernstein is at his best in spite of the flu he caught that time !

[@garyengler165]

Oh ho ho - that beginning is taken right out of Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky!

[@mreffen1]

@BaconFortySix Thanks! Correction made. I'm surprised no one has corrected me previously in the year this has been up.

[@xLesPaulGibsonx]

That's how you play a Bass Trombone.

[@sammypontello5778]

Does anyone know where to find the sheet music for this particular version of the score, or "Auto da fe?" I have looked through at least 4 different scores trying to find Pangloss' little solo thing here because it's a PERFECT operetta audition cut, but I cannot for the LIFE of me.

[@ransomcoates546]

Sammy Pontello I think he fiddled with the piece through all the time after he first composed it.

[@ligetimoment2524]

I believe it is the Scottish opera version, those lines were in it when I played that version

[@charlessavoie2367]

Leonard Bernstein, Sir Rudolph Bing, Alfred Gustav Etienne de Liagre Jr. all members of The Pilgrims Society, albeit outer circle members.

[@astrotter]

I've discovered I have an ancestor named Kunigunde Mohn from Westphalia, and I'm pleased as can be that her impure paramour shared his glass, or else I'd not have come to pass (alas).

[@jeromegenova]

Ok, can someone help me figure this out please. I've never seen the show live, but I've watched most of the clips on youtube. Was this the original aria? I know that Bernstein made revisions through the years, but I haven't seen this version anywhere else. Was it specific to this performance?

[@xikangzhao6787]

The sequence of the scenes are quite different between different versions so you may find this part in other places in other performances

[@CoppeliaEnterprises]

I believe that the maestro passed in 1990, so I would presume that this 1989 performance was the definitive version.

[@garyengler165]

No - merely his ultimate version.

[@foxscout1]

The Original Candide was written by Voltaire in 1759

[@westchesterny]

Looks like someone LOVES Auto Da Fe---- Janet Reno?

[@albertdiner]

Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

[@Hollis_has_questions]

What a lovely day for drinking and for watching people DIE! (My version.) If the maestro had done nothing but Candide, he would be a legend in my mind. I adore this operetta even more than I dislike opera. I was fortunate to have played the Overture (clarinet) in high school … and I fell hard. Later, when I read, studied, and understood Voltaire’s little book, I fell even harder. The operetta Candide ought to be studied in philosophy class. I know without a doubt that Voltaire would be ecstatic.

[@sarahjones-jf4pr]

This is well put together hilarious narrative and great music and it looks like it is totally wasted on some of the staid audience,they look completely bland, shame on them.

[@TheHisNat]

Although this is brilliant, I must say that is very odd to see Adolph Green without Betty Comden.

[@garyengler165]

True - although he and Bernstein go w-w-a-a-a-a-y back to college days.

[@Jan96106]

Hilarious.

[@francescomassimi8434]

Shades of Shostakovich evil sarcasm?

[@CascadianPatriotII]

Oh, Vigaaaaanò... 🤣

[@gapont2]

Wonderful piece !! But the choir is not accurate enough.

[@ThatsAPhotoGuy]

There have been so many versions on Candide, its not even funny!

[@anthonyhuenneke1524]

'... and hang the bah-stahd high." ugh. english choirs.