The line that chokes me up is "on an ordinary Sunday." Because it's true. This WAS an ordinary Sunday. And Seurat made it extraordinary. That is the gift the artist gives the world.
I just wanted to check Sondheim's musicals out to educate myself and it was my first time hearing it so I didn't cry, but I can see why you are all so moved. Goosebumps. The harmonies of the voices together, the calm and then unstoppable crescendo...Just beautiful
If _Sunday in the Park_ ever gets a film adaptation, this is how I want the score to sound. Sondheim’s score is the most elegant I’ve ever heard. Lord knows what legendary symphony he’s making now in the heavens.
This is the most powerful and beautiful performance I ever heard of Sondheim's "Sunday In the Park w/George". Goes right through me with chills up my spine at that final build up of the voices and orchestra. What a gift to be able to create music that soars like this!
I saw the original production on Broadway and sobbed the entire time. When the painting was re-created on stage the audience was on their feet cheering and screaming. What a night!
Keep coming back to this for the sheer musical joy and inspiration. All best wishes to our lead singer here- Dan Evans as George - as he takes over running the Royl Shakespeare Company in tandem. Someone at last able to bring the RSC back from the doldrums it has been in since the departure of Trevor Nunn and the dearest departed Terry Hands. Good luck and God bless, Dan!
I can't get over how perfect this arrangement and performance is. Makes you feel good to be a thinking feeling human. We're so lucky to be alive at the same time as music like this exists.
Thank you, Steve. You gave us more to see. And we are all the better for it. You leave behind a legacy that will last until the end of time. Hundreds of years from now, I know it in my heart, people will still be singing your music - for it is the music of what it means to be human.
Thank you so much for posting this magnificent performance. This is possibly the best I've come across of this piece. So impressive that you can actually understand the words, which is difficult to do with big choirs. Any chance you could post a longer clip that included Sondheim coming out for a bow after this piece, which I seem to remember from the original clip of this I saw? It was great to see him get roars from the audience and performers. I would have given anything to be there for this. So many great performances from this concert, including Judi Dench singing Send in the Clowns and Jenna Russell brilliantly singing Sunday in the Park. Thank you, BBC Proms, for creating this memorable event!
Sadly, the most moving version of Sunday was recorded after Stephen Sondheim's passing. Lin-Manuel Miranda spoke before a large crowd of Broadway performers who met in Times Square to sing Sunday in honor of Mr. Sondheim. The last words Lin-Manuel spoke before they sang, was a quote from James Lapine about Stephen "White, his favorite, a blank page or canvas. So many possibilities."
I don't even know where to begin. I am gobsmacked. The harmonies! I can't. I have chills. Question, who is the "MC" or the bald man who sings first? He looks very familiar.
A strange question~ Does anyone know where/when Stephen Sondheim's Funeral was? I cannot find any information on this on the Internet. Which seems odd.
I'm not refuting that some people use an 's' and some don't, or commenting on the 'correctness' of one or the other - just stating that the 's' is what's written in the score so that's what *should* be sung. (It's not being added by the singers.)
Derek Carson I don’t know why but you saying “man with the bald head” rather than the bald guy is the funniest thing ever to me...I’m laughing so hard about it but also bawling because of the song it’s all very confusing and wonderful
Go ahead and search the other million videos on RU-vid, and try to find one that's more rapturous than this one. I'll be waiting here when you get back.
+Sarah B You are remembering correctly, but here Dot says it rather than George. The camera cut makes it hard to tell, I missed it myself the first time I watched it.
+Sarah B Jenna says it in this shortly after Daniel says light, rather than the George character saying both words as in the stage version ;) She just says it really quietly; I missed it the first time!
they are the people who took part in the prom concert at the Albert Hall in London for Sondheim's 80th birthday. they are international, but very few Americans.
