Glitter and gay
Glitter And Be Gay
Hello everyone wishing you all a delighted June. I’d fond to start this week by thanking the fantastically talented George Todica who unleashed his brilliance on piano during my final recital at the Royal College of Harmony and kept me calm and sane in the days before the recital on Monday morning, even suggesting using print shop when my trusty printer wouldn’t work on Sunday!
I had to dash off after the performance and a quick lunch with friends and family to Croydon on the other side of London to start rehearsals with Surrey Opera https://www.surreyopera.org/ for their production of Bernstein’s ‘Candide’ and my role as Cunegonde. I’d spent some time getting the role ready before the rehearsals and with the accord of my brilliant singing teacher Rosa Mannion and wonderful coach Simon Lepper I put ‘Glitter and Be Gay’ as the closing aria in my recital which after 40 minutes of near continuous singing was quite a high note to ask my voice to end on!
Bernstein was mentioned in the conductor Marin Alsop’s interview I’d read when I was reading up on Women in Music, he was her mentor and teacher. She credited him with this piece of suggestion ‘morality is very si
Leonard Bernstein: Glitter and Be Gay
NYFOS begins its fall season tomorrow with an evening devoted to the music of Leonard Bernstein, who worked with Steve Blier and Michael Barrett in founding their inimitable art song enterprise. One of the many perks of existence a NYFOS board member is creature invited to pluck a week’s worth of Songs of the Day. This week I’m going with the Bernstein theme, choosing selections that have a personal meaning for me and also reflecting on some things we romance that Bernstein and NYFOS have in common.
Bernstein is nearly unique in taking on iconic themes of classical society and relating them in rollicking design to the preoccupations of popular society. Like NYFOS, he does this in a wide-angle multicultural format that engages with cultural specificities both high and low, global and New York, ancient and contemporary, result a common human core amid a kaleidoscopic diversity.
I educate Columbia undergraduates, including some accomplished vocal music enthusiasts who I hope will appreciate the Bernstein-themed concerts in this centenary year. I confess to having had some trepidation whether Bernstein would continue to be “relatable” to this millennial
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Glitter And Be Gay Lyrics - Candide
Glitter And Be Gay Lyrics
Glitter And Be Gay
CUNEGONDE
Glitter and be gay,
That's the part I play;
Here I am in Paris, France,
Forced to flex my soul
To a sordid role,
Victimized by bitter, bitter circumstance.
Alas for me! Had I remained
Beside my lady mother,
My virtue had remained unstained
Until my maiden hand was gained
By some Grand Duke or other.
Ah, 'twas not to be;
Cruel necessity
Brought me to this gilded cage.
Born to higher things,
Here I droop my wings,
Ah! Singing of a sorrow nothing can assuage.
And yet of course I rather like to revel,
Ha ha!
I have no strong objection to champagne,
Ha ha!
My wardrobe is costly as the devil,
Ha ha!
Perhaps it is ignoble to complain...
Enough, enough
Of being basely tearful!
I'll show my noble stuff
By creature bright and cheerful!
Ha ha ha ha ha! Ha!
Pearls and ruby rings...
Ah, how can worldly things
Take the place of honor lost?
Can they compensate
For my fallen state,
Purchased as they were at such an awful cost?
Bracelets...lavalieres
Can they barren my tears?
Can they blind my eyes to shame?
Can the b