I was at this concert. This and John Williams's "Lincoln" were the highlights! Thank you for posting
@SabineHolterman4 жыл бұрын
I played this with the Wauwatosa Community Band/Wind Ensemble and thought it was cool but you don’t get how powerful the music and Lincoln’s words are together unless you listen. One of if not Aaron Copland’s best composition ever.
@Liz-y1d9 ай бұрын
Outstanding!
@JeffinBville6 жыл бұрын
I wish there were a way to like this more than once and a way to send this to the current President who might learn some lessons from it.
@jslasher15 жыл бұрын
The current President, who is not only tone-deaf but also a moron, would learn nothing from the Copland music.
@finchborat2 жыл бұрын
I agree. The old coot currently in charge needs to hear this.
@JeffinBville2 жыл бұрын
@@finchborat I didn't think you could get youtube at Mar a lago.
@finchborat2 жыл бұрын
@@JeffinBville I don't live in FL. So anyway, we need a new president.
@JeffinBville2 жыл бұрын
@@finchborat You might not but that' "old coot" you were referring to, does.
@jochanaan584 жыл бұрын
Ms. Rashad does a fine job. There is something about an African American -- any African American -- speaking these words, and she gives them space and clarity.
@bubby31903 жыл бұрын
James Earl Jones’s narration is amazing!
@jochanaan583 жыл бұрын
@@bubby3190 Also check out William Warfield's reading with Leonard Bernstein. 👍
@Liz-y1d9 ай бұрын
Thanks Ms. Rashad!
@Liz-y1d9 ай бұрын
Amen!
@VernonNickersonSCHOOLCOACH9 ай бұрын
There is something powerful and true in the timbre and intonation of a voice with the lived experience of struggle to live in freedom versus the sound of a vocalist from privilege, power, and generational wealth seeking to mimic/duplicate President Lincoln's delivery in 1863. (C) VERNONNICKERSONSCHOOLCOACH 2024. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
@charlesbarry67305 жыл бұрын
Aaron Copland a true American composer.His sounds very American . This is the fist time that I am hearing this narration being done by a very good job.
@welles20024 жыл бұрын
Monumental on all levels !!!
@richardwilliams473 Жыл бұрын
At 5:37 we see the timpanist playing his drums in the German configuration
@jbbevanАй бұрын
Love Phylicia. But nobody reads this as well as Charlton Heston.
@Mike-dk7wj Жыл бұрын
A remarkable union of music and text. It deserved far more than Rashad's listless, insipid, characterless delivery, which might have done justice to a reading of the telephone directory or a speaking clock but not this monumental work. For how it's supposed to be done hear William Warfield's masterful moving oration under the baton of Leonard Bernstein.
@marvinwilkenfeld29823 ай бұрын
Yes, the Bernstein video from London may be musically better but I find your comment unkind and hurtful. The message is clear.
@Mike-dk7wj3 ай бұрын
@@marvinwilkenfeld2982 Musically worse, not necessarily I would say, different rather than inferior, but narrationwise, most definitely awful, whether you are personally offended or not. Another great oration was by Copeland, whose distinctive voice and delivery gave the work the authority and beauty it deserved.
@908824622 күн бұрын
@marvinwilkenfield2982 Yo ass couldn't hold a candle to her yet you criticize like you him... Get outta here with that asinine comment
@FifthContinentMusic3 жыл бұрын
Sorry, but we don't care much for this particular performance. Just proves than anyone can be engaged to recite Lincoln's powerful words. We'd recommend Morgan Freeman if one is inclined to favour an African-American narrator.
@Liz-y1d9 ай бұрын
Who are you? To Fifth Continent Music? Or FifthContinentMisic without spaces… the “WE” in your post of this performance is.. WEAK.