Seth Rudetsky deconstructs some Sondheim and Michael Jackson orchestration!

[@nicholasfox966]

Harp and celesta on the scale in "Losing my Mind". Exquisite.

[@williamevans9426]

More, please, Seth! When no-one can participate in, nor attend, performances as a result of COVID-19, we miss your analyses more than ever. Many thanks from Oxford, UK!

[@bwaystar88]

"Getting Married Today" is literally my favorite orchestration ever. I rewind the end obsessively. The violins, into the horns, and the DRUMS at the end! It's so phenomenal. Tunick is quite simply a genius.

[@MissPoochSmooch]

Ha! As a child I too was obsessed with that basson part.

[@s0ndhe1m]

OMG I'm doing Side By Side BY Sondheim right now and get to play both of those passages in my piano part!!! LOVE IT!!!

[@IjeomaThePlantMama]

Wanna Be Where You Are is my absolute favorite Jackson 5 song, and now you just gave me another reason to listen to it even more haha

[@MaryJesusJoseph]

This is great--and it's always so wonderful to hear the great Dorothy Collins again.

[@MinervasGarden]

Well done!

[@CromTO]

I listened to "I Wanna Be Where You Are" I don't know how many times and never even looked at the way you did/do until now. Thanks Seth, you rock. P.S. Now whenever I listen to it I'm obsessed with the violins!

[@misscleo3861]

Don't know about the Jackson 5 song, but Tears of a Clown's music track was written and produced by Hank Cosby and Stevie Wonder (only 17 at the time!).

[@HighKingTurgon]

Holy shit. Not only are they tonguing, but they're single-tonguing. I certainly can't single-tongue that fast.

[@LPM12]

I would love it if you deconstructed some Alice Ripley, my favorite broadway diva, after all it is my birthday!!!!

[@YeOldeSoul]

HA! I can't believe I never heard Crazy Bassoon in Tears of a Clown. And now I can't un-hear it.

[@nxbx7]

you should deconstruct see what i wanna see

[@pSAurOnq]

Bassoons always have some weird lines but it's always fun. Like in "Heaven On Their Minds" from JCS during the last chorus. I have to learn the bassoon at some point.

[@scharfie]

It's actually pronounced "harp see chord"

[@CartoonsUseToBeCool]

Seth, i love you but when Mike is singing it's hard to focus on anything else!

[@crazypoundpupp]

Ha i'm so not going to be able to listen to tears of a clown the same again. Then again, that always happens from these, i can never listen to a song the same again :-)