Candide Overture
This guide follows Bernstein’s Candide Overture (1956) in one part.
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Follow all 6 sections as they play
0:00–4:24
The opening sets out the and then stumbles into E-flat. Fast, bustling music follows, and then a begins. The lyrical contrast (B) taken from 'Oh, Happy We' arrives next. The opening material (A) is heard again, with lighter scoring and a gleeful violin. A brilliant (section C) draws on 'Glitter and Be Gay', and the closes the piece in a shower of musical sparks.
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Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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