Glitter and be gay

Urged by the Old Lady, who serves as her duenna, Cunegonde arrays herself in her jewels ("Glitter and Be Gay"). Candide stumbles into the scene and is amazed to find Cunegonde still alive ("You Were Dead, You Know"). Bernstein: Candide - 'Glitter and be Gay' - BBC Proms BBC M subscribers Subscribed. Herbert’s showpiece and “Glitter and Be Gay” Lyrics share comedic self-mockery and stratospheric F’s. Each heroine declares a new identity—diva first, damsel second—wrapped in tongue-in-cheek grandeur.

Glitter and Be Gay Lyrics: And here I am, my heart breaking / Forced to glitter, forced to be gay / Glitter and be gay / That's the part I play / Here I am in Paris, France / Forced to.

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Leonard Bernstein - Glitter and Be Gay Lyrics. Glitter and be gay That's the part I play Here I am in Paris, France Forced to bend my soul To a sordid role Victimized by bitter, bitter ci. 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.

Bernstein is nearly unique in taking on iconic themes of classical culture and relating them in rollicking style to the preoccupations of popular culture. 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, finding a common human core amid a kaleidoscopic diversity. I teach Columbia undergraduates, including some accomplished vocal music enthusiasts who I hope will appreciate the Bernstein-themed concerts in this centenary year.

Even in my own younger days I remember seeing him as a leonine, somewhat forbidding, larger-than-life, world-historical figure, the last of a dying breed. But this fear turned out to be misplaced. This video clip includes part of an interview where she describes the horrors of initial rehearsals. Pangloss insists that we live in the best of all possible worlds, which he proves by pointing to the beneficial side effects of the earthquake that destroyed Lisbon.

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