Saint-Saëns - Samson and Delilah - Bacchanale 

+Redeye Percussion I am playing this piece in high school now, and our director said to do the same thing xD

+HaleyLuvsChicken - I don't play in any ensembles any more, but this piece still had great memories for me whenever I hear it. Enjoy playing classical while you can!

Redeye Percussion I'm playing the timpani parts for this and Nimrod this coming Saturday for Region Orchestra... should be interesting

hey...is there any chance you're from CT? bc i played this in 7th grade regionals

Fun for the French Horns, too. Bells up!

He had a sad life story. He lost his two boys. He also lived in Algeria for a while and visited Egypt.

That explains why I get images of Egypt in my head when I listen to this. It makes me want to draw Egyptian scenes.

It was a 'thing' back in the day. Check out the mansion that Frederick Church built, Olana.

It was a thing back in those days. You should check out Fredrick Church's Olana. So cool.

What's funny is a bacchanale isn't even Egyptian. It was a sort of celebration of the God Bacchus, who was the romanized version of dionysus

you can smell the bacchanal.

Maybe, but while the music is great, it is a dance piece.

Säens always be telling stories His Danse Macabre is the perfect example

I hear the story of Prophet Muhammad. 0:01 The Idol workshop of his uncle Abu Lahab, you hear the business of the workers chiseling and driving the stones and metals 0:57 The pagan pilgrims arrive for the annual feast 2:06 Mount Hira and the archangel Gabriel 2:41 The return of the prophet to idolators of Mekka 3:21 Muhammads first sermon 3:49 The death fanfare for the time of ignorance and the first companions 3:54 The companions learning the quran in secret 5:20 The mocking voices of the quraish 5:37 Muhammad prophecies a miracle and warns about the hell 6:09 The quraish flock to the Kaaba at night 6:43 The splitting of the moon

@@Assadul-Naml wow nice

F A C T S

IT'S A PIEEEECE!

This is so accurate...also CELLO GANG

TRUTH

**Konzertmeister war flashbacks** HAHAHA YEAH THIS SONG WAS SOOO FUN HAHAHA

Ahahaaahahahaaahaahhhhaaaa

im gone man, that made my day

Oh f*ck yes XD

If you cook instead so your mom doesn't have to do more work after already having a long day, I can guarantee you'll remember to do it.

😂😂😂😂😂 you probably typed this form the other side of the world but I'm feeling SO related to this goddamit !! 🤣🤣

Brian MacDonald That’s based on a segment from an Algerian Arab Andalusian piece ( Touchia Zidane); that piece touched Saint Saëns during his visit to Algiers.

Agree! I listen to that over and over again

Very interesting! Thank you for adding context to Saint Saëns' composition. It now makes perfect sense that he drew inspiration from the Arab folk music (from Algeria, then a French colony) for his "middle-eastern"-themed work.

Kinda like how Samson lifted the entire building on em bitches huh

@@htrlandisn't Algeria in Africa?

Im not religious, but I’m imagining the collapse of the building around Samson as he breaks the pillars around him

There is a version by the Caracas Youth Orchestra that was making me see Napoleonic Cuirassiers charging against Mamluks at the battle of the Pyramids, this one made me picture a running from a sandstorm.

r/oddlyspecifc

This is some uncharted last mission kinda thing

I just imagine a bunch of 19th century people forming a mosh pit

That's priceless.

You can't remember the gender of your sibling?

@@scaramouchescaramouche7990 He's obviously being sarcastic

@@peterdumpel5729 Well if their sibling is trans who knows hecksdeee *notserious*

PeakyPounder12 that isn’t what sarcasm is

Gina how do you perform a piece and not listen to a recording at least once?

Gina same

Classical Music was a joke bro

Lol our conductor would never let us do that. First of all he would work on on section for like 15 minutes

@@jeungrioppa5937 no it isn't all people who have a good education listen to the classical music

Honestly, whenever I have existentialist thoughts, I remember that music exists, and it helps bring me to the conclusion that existence is almost entirely good.

it sounds like a psychedelic trip to me.

I agree, this is one of my favorite !

@@suppiluiiuma5769 Existence is entirely good, what could make a man believe otherwise?

Based off the comments it seems like this composer had lost his children while visiting beautiful places in Egypt. His emotion is definitely tied to this piece and probably many others

A Bacchanale can do that. : )

And, he also wrote one film score a few years before he died.

The music I remember most from figure skating is Saint-Saens "Danse Macabre"

Yes!! I found this piece thanks to Joannie rochette’s performance at the 2010 olympics

@Sofia Rosenberg I love Alina too

@@jamesfunk7614Queen Yuna 👑⛸️🇰🇷

Ashley Wagner's 2012-13 Free Skate is my favorite Samson & Delilah ⛸️⛸️⛸️

Jillian Myerly which section are/were you in?

@@naliburg i wonder

Not a song.

Agreed. Ignorant people insist on calling musical pieces, compositions, opuses, works, etc. just "songs", when it's obvious they mostly are NOT intended to be sung by human voices!

@@AnibalPacaco thats a hasty conclusion to jump to. perhaps they are just unaware, not “insisting” on calling them songs

@@thexya5 or perphaps English is not their first language, and everyone here need to stop being a god damn elitist

As a trumpet player, I love a good horn riff

The use of the double harmonic major scale (know as the arabic scale) makes it sound a lot exotic too

TinyTiniaMan I play oboe and is amazing ❤💘

Whitney Saunders the snake-charming instrument, though the sound is similar, is called the _punji_.

@@mrbenoit5018 Thank you sir. Perhaps you can enlighten others here, by teaching them the parts of speech and their proper usage. Adjectives, adverbs, et cetera, et cetera...

@@mrbenoit5018 Forgive my failure, Iron Chancellor, Correct, Anti-Semitic, highly defensive, 2nd Reich, holdover. I was being sincere. I really meant "thank you" for correcting them. The oboe was never referred to or called a snake charmer in any music education setting I was ever in, and I have a B.A. in Music Theory/History, and was about halfway through the coursework required for a master's degree in the same. I had three years of College level classical music education in High School at N.O.C.C.A. That is the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. I was using my phone's voice to text feature, until the end, where I said the et cetera shit a couple times. I only said what I said, because the other comments appear to be written by people that learned how to read and write English while students of the Esteemed, Dagobah Charter School System, from Headmaster Yoda himself. Why so defensive? I truly appreciated your comment and what I initially perceived to be, at least, a modest amount of intelligence and tact. I was not mistaken, was I?

Hebrew?😳🥴🤣

Samson et Dalilah is in Gaza.

Que fue pa :v?

​@@diegoalcachofa5490

Yes!

Yeah, I don't know why people seem to always think that faster is better, music is not supposed to be a race. That being said, I personally think this is just a tad bit slow(I recommend the performance by James Levine found here on YT) but like you said, you can hear the precision of the playing, all the nuance and details lacking in many faster performances, something which more than makes up the difference to me. I'd much rather listen to this than the many performances which are too fast and not nearly as well played.

Cause if you can play it slowly you can play it quickly

My father jokes when Sleigh Ride is played too quickly and calls it Sleigh Race.

@@katevogel4773 thats not a violin!!

Nah, I think that Saint-Säens meant for the piece to be frantic, loud, and just pure chaos.

1900s

i’m a second violin in my orchestra and I love hearing the piccolo 💗😭

I think so too, he has this mysteriousness and playfulness to his music. It takes you to other worlds.

Jorge Garcia i don't know, Chopin Is good too

COMPOSER - A Compositor hand sets type for printing presses.

@@organbuilder272 It might be the correct word in Spanish. The French word is compositeur and the Italian is compositore.

@@murrayaronson3753 Thank you for your help

how did it go

LOLXD West I guess we’ll never know...

I'm sure you did well.

Hey! We are playing this for my freshman marching band music!

The perfect place actually for Cleopatra and Dalilah is one and the same person :)

Love

Nice😮

Wait until you hear his first symphony and third piano concerto, as well as the unnumbered symphonies (if you haven't already).

@@CuratorOfRealitiesAlso, give his 3rd symphony a listen. It might be the most epic piece of classical music ever.

Camille Saint-Saëns lived partially in Algeria for health reasons starting from 1873 till his death in Algeria in 1921.

@@marcelcharbonnier297 yes, he lived in rue Michelet, it is my hometown Algiers, building 81, rue Michelet, Algiers Algeria

@@marcelcharbonnier297 oui mais ça n'a rien à voir avec la musique

@@danemon8423 bah si vu qu'il s'est inspiré de musiques traditionnelles algériennes

@@Aly_ldi pas du tout, premièrement ces mélodies sont plutôt des mélodies inspirées de musiques au levant pas au maghreb. Deuxièmement ces mélodies qui nous font penser à l'egypte et à l'orient sont des mélodie inventé

@@schlomogigasheckelstein-go8694 Who's Lilith?

@@brendanforester4601 : Allegedly she was the first wife of Adam. Not human, but demon, made out of fire and brimstone, not dust and clay

@@schlomogigasheckelstein-go8694 According to whom?

@@RandomHistory :google it..

@@schlomogigasheckelstein-go8694 So urban legend or conspiracy theory... So nothing of substance.

I think that part is the quintessential "my time has come" moment for every timpani player.

r/iamverysmart

@@richardcheese6161 r/youarebeingajerk

Samson et Dalila gets performed often enough. The Metropolitan Opera does it with some regularity as does San Francisco. Maybe it's less so in France nowadays.

i saw it when the met showed it live in hd! it was very good. the bacchanle and mon coeur will be always be some of my fav songs from operas.

I worked at Seattle Opera from 2004 to COVID and they never performed it. ☹️ I wish they would, I bet it would be popular.

we played a modified version of this song as part of our marching show lmao

6:42 is epic

6:42 that moment when the enemy is splitting your forces in half in Steel Division(Not expect to see you here, so why not give a compliment about your Steel Division content? Good work man)

Hahaaaa, not sorry

@@trumsu915 Only seeing this now... Haha I am a man of many tastes I suppose. Thanks for the props

Just an update... Total commitment to the headgear. Long flowing locks of black hair.

+Rachael Durham I think it is Ben-Hur.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3o9K4dT30ng.html

+Andrea Bezdan 6

@@yogicfly4bliss it is not Ben-Hur.

Maybe it's Ben-Him

The struggle...first heard this on public radio and fell in love. Couldn't find it for years because I couldn't spell any of it.

I also found this piece that i heard after in a concerto , by typing "Classical music piece by arabic tunes" to google.

Bach Anal? This genre seems underdeveloped.

Randi Walby, I’m sorry to hear that.

For us it was a Alto Sax soloist!

Simply put, a boy is blessed from the womb by God so long as he keeps 3 rules. He gets old, marries from the enemy camp, fights the enemy camp with his super strength and murders thousands, marries a different woman, breaks all his rules and suffers. They rip his eyes out and set him to work the mills without super strength because he didn't do what God told him to do. He repents and has his redemption manifest when the enemies summon him to be a court jester but God gives him his strength back. He drags a building down with hundreds of the enemy Philistines on his himself and everybody dies. Many things we Christians can learn from Samson. Just saying it to you since you said you didn't know.

I guess you don't know the Bible. Where are you from?

@@TheKing-qz9wd Thanks for the summary, maybe I will read the whole story someday 😊

@@murrayaronson3753 I am Italian; I am really ignorant about christian religion and the Bible, all I know comes from my childhood memories and it is more or less nothing.

@@Dubhe68 Oh, please do. At the very least even atheists should agree that Samson should help men realize to not be so fixated on women. After all, it was Samson's love for his second wife which got him enslaved. But I'll let you read that part when you choose. If it's any consolation, Samson doesn't have an independent section like Job: he's treated more like Abraham. Samson was one of many Israelite Judges, selected by God to liberate Israel from their oppressors after Israel engaged in idolatry and God let them be defeated. So check about 5 chapters into the book of judges or so when you do, he takes up a few but as I said he doesn't have a separate book. I suppose that's everything important, I don't think you're going to be interested in the Gospel so that's all I can think of to help you.

The Islamic Caliphate versus the various European armies during the Crusades be like...

How did it go.

It must have been quite some wedding!

Actually it is not: to this day he loves her...

It's Rimsky-Korsakov

Risky lol...

+Michaela Hrdličková Korsitis.

+John Jordaan Listen to Sir Thomas Beecham with the RPO for a real orgy.

John Jordaan i