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Hey Christine,
This is my post as well. I’m 17 from VA. I play lever harp, well starting to anyway. I have my first real recital in Dec.
Lillian Hellman version was the first. I wish I had the money to buy ALL of them. I think it’s Berstein theater music at it’s best- some think it’s Bernstein in general at his best but I’m not familiar enough with some of the more scholarly works to venture an opinion on that.
I have 2 CD’s coming, the first original (1956) and another of the several that was conducted by Berstein himself. As far as I can find out, Barbara Cook appeared in the very first production and no other, but I could be wrong on that. Gotta find a chronological list with details somewhere….
Saul, to highjack my own thread- did you notice that there are three Salzedos on the classified page? No old ones though.
I have seen several productions, and it seems the first was the best-Minnesota Opera-quite witty, and based on the Chelsea Theater Center production which starred Barbara Cook, I believe. All the subsequent reworkings seem to have diminished it. The original book was the most satirical, I believe.
I’ve seen some harp vulgarity: slit skirts up the thigh, posing to show off anatomy, oh for the days of dignity.
I think my Nightingale weighs around 10 1/2 pounds in cherry, but when you go to the website you will see that Jeff Lewis also makes a
I’m thinking of the first “original” as a baseline, and I love and always have loved Barbara Cook, but choosing a second isn’t as easy. I love “Make Our Garden Grow” and at least two of the newer versions didn’t include it. There’s also some version in which the lyrics of “Best of All Possible Worlds” are completely changed from the original. I like the first version.
If you’re interested, there’s a great website with a collection of contemporary comments when the first version was produced. URL is “geocities.com/bernsteincandide Berstein’s Candide”. Lillian Hellman was as miserable with the production as critics were with what she was writing. A bad mix from the start judging by
I was surfing YouTube and happened to find a clip from an I Love Lucy episode that shows a “close-up” of the harpist “in action” with Desi Arnaz (Ricky Ricardo) singing beside her… (please note – you need to watch the entire clip to see the really close-up shots of her playing…). Enjoy!
Hello Emilia- The show was probably about the Luis and Clark instruments, now including a violin, viola, and concert bass in addition to the cello. I recently attended
