Leonard Bernstein - Overture to Candide | London Symphony Orchestra / Bernstein

Overture to CANDIDE
London Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Recorded live from the Barbican Theatre, London
December 13, 1989
Producer: Harry J. Kraut, John Evans
Music: Leonard Bernstein
Director: Humphrey Burton
©1989 Deutsche Grammophon

[@jameslewis8227]

As a young percussionist I used to love playing Bernstein’s compositions... As an adult I still love them!

[@sarahjones-jf4pr]

Still dancing and prancing with a nasty case of influenza, the wonderful enigmatic Maestro Bernstein.

[@Whysicist]

Lenny was da bestest of da best… pure love through sound… heavenly. This has it all, for me.

[@Dylonely42]

He did a great thing with Candide. An amazing overture, with so much catching melodies. One of the most joyful overtures !

[@gerthenriksen8818]

Great, thanks. Tragic though that Bernstein passed away not even a year after this, (October 1990, I believe)

[@pederhalvorsen2289]

😢😢

[@maestroclassico5801]

I remember it. Copland died 2 months later. Destroyed me.

[@gerthenriksen8818]

@@maestroclassico5801 Yes, Copland was 90. My favorite composer.

[@maestroclassico5801]

@@gerthenriksen8818 And then the damn Persian Gulf war started a week later and I was required to drop out of College....not a good time in my life.

[@gerthenriksen8818]

@@maestroclassico5801 No I can imagine.

[@christianseefeld3585]

How amazing to see him live the music he composed while conducting it. So full of humor most of the time- even dancing and joking- but then again absolutely precise and serious on some points, where it is necessary. What an idol still after all the years!

[@MisterMalleable]

This version of Candide was the first I ever heard. Bernstein conducting Jerry Hadley and Adolph Green is always fun to watch!

[@CYNNotap]

my school uses this song as their bell ring

[@bingbongcentralhq]

Holy shit you're so lucky. Which part?

[@richardwilliams473]

Lenny was enjoying the moment for sure!!

[@HelloooThere]

Gotta love his candy colored baton! So cheeky!

[@annsnyder4222]

Did we do this piece together in concert band? 0:00

[@Richard-b5r9v]

At 0:43 we see German born timpanist