Eileen Farrell is probably the most versatile soprano of all time....My favorite.

Lenny can never resist hamming it up. He's never the accompanist, always the star.

What a duo....for the ages!

I have to have a shot of this every day. It lifts my spirits no end.

I know exactly where I was when they announced that Ms.Farrell died I was driving in Dallas and started to cry thinking I never got to meet her and to tell her how much I loved her singing!

She was a national treasure.

Such a versatile singer.

I mean… were these people even awake?? Considering she was an accomplished operatic soprano, this was extraordinary! And Leonard to boot! What??!

Sixty-seven years old....Wow ! Ageless genius!

Eileen Farrell is my spirit animal.

My favourites! Lenny and The Farrell (as he called her)! Both have a deep understanding of music.

Remembering this romantic performance of Leonard Bernstein and Eileen Farrell on "A Musical Toast: The Stars Shine on Public Television" with host Ithzak Perlman, which first ever aired as part of the conclusion of KPBS San Diego's Festival '87(March 1987 Membership Campaign), Circa Sunday March 22nd, 1987!! But unfortunately, KPBS felt short of its $450,000 goal and took only $370,208 during its Festival '87 membership campaign due to fewer people won't itemize deductions, weaker repeated pledge programs and a lack of thank-you premiums!!! TV Worth Watching and TV Worth Paying For!!

My face hurts from smiling!

There were angels among us. This is priceless.

Rob - I'm so thrilled to see your comment here! Your mother was an such inspiration to me. I was one of those lucky students who were so blessed to be in her "Popular Vocal Styles Class". She continues to inspire me. In fact on the last recording I was working on, I was recording the lead vocals for "Music of My Heart" & the sound engineer said, "technically perfect, but expression? Zip." I knew just what to do. I put Eileen in a chair in the corner of the room, did it again & they loved it!

Eileen Farrell has lived the dream!...to have Lenny play on the piano. ;)

Wow! Farrell's voice and style are so powerful. Bernstein's accompaniment - a real knock out!

0:56 The musical opening is reminiscent of tune from Wagner’s Ring Cycle, including during Immolation Scene in Gotterdammerung

What a voice.

Two immortals. My father was an IRS agent, assigned to audit the Farrell/Regan taxes. Despite the audit, they were very pleasant when he called on them in Staten Island. He heard an incredible pianist tinkling away in another room. Farrell asked him, 'Do you wanna meet Lenny? He's in the other room.'

You Go Girl!!!!! 2 of my favorite sopranos had their roots and earliest gigs singing blues style music and standards --- Eileen Farrell and Renee Fleming. The are both known for tremendous acting skills/inflections -- because they began singing professionally Connected to the Lyric!!!! Absofreakinglutely Awesome!!! 😎😎😎

This is a thrill. Thank you.

From Bellini to Bernstein! Outstanding

Still got it!

Damn... this woman had it till the end. Fabulous voice!

Wow! I put this up when I was six! I wish! She's so wonderful, and I may have seen her once from a distance. We were on the same ferry-boat at the time. Singing Gershwin, Mahler, etc, she's still the best! Lovely to hear from you!

🎹 Aha! Did anybody notice that Bernstein began his accompaniment to Come Rain Or Come Shine by playing the Redemption Through Love leitmotif from the conclusion of Wagner's Gotterdamerung!? Well, he did! 🎹

Que diria Callas acerca de esta voz. Muy bella y muy versátil

And here I sit broken-hearted! I never saw her live, and I'm just a putz for not having better followed her career! I could have, but that's like "coulda, woulda, shouda," and it just won't count! Anyway, I'm thrilled that you saw her live in Berkeley!

Beautiful voice.

At age 67,,,👍👍👍👍👍👍.

@lamusicahera She was a kind of legend to me! Grew up on Staten Island, and though she hardly ever took the ferry, there was a time when she lived there too. I always fantasized about meeting her one day, and I think I did! I was too timid to ask for an autograph. Thanks so much for your comment!

Proof that you can avoid getting a warble as you age

Sad we've lost Leonard, but grateful for Andre still in our midst! You're absolutely right ; both were "ambidextrous" with either media! Thank you for your comment, and again, I'm honored!

I musicisti italiani, cantanti e direttori d'orchestra e strumentisti, hanno molto, troppo da imparare. Siamo lontani lontani...

Leonard played like he was the only one on stage..

"'She was sorts shy"

Does anyone know where I could find this arrangement/accompaniment for an audition ?

that's what's music all about...

To think she sang Bach just as well as this. And Verdi. And Wagner.

sopraan E. Farrell (geb. 1920): 1940 CBS Radio(koor)-show/1947 concert-zanger/1955 zangstem in speelfilm/1956 opera-rollen in VSA/1960 blues-LP (Columbia: 4 pop.-albums)/1971 hoogleraar muziek nl. zang/1983 idem/1986 podium-afscheid/1987 pop.-albums/1999 memoires [resume: English wicky]

God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is not the male introducing her Itzhak Perlman? Best to name him in the caption.

Itzak Pearlman as presentator, Bernstein as accompanist. WTF ?!

OH dear........

Does anyone know what key this is in?

Eileen Farrell was the greatest crossover singer of all time. Than Barbra Streisand, than any popular singer who tried to sing opera, or any other opera singer who tried to sing popular music. Rudolf Bing fired her from the Met for singing popular music. She took the heat, and blazed back "singin' the blues". kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hNp7ocSLyr2cZ30.html

Wonderfull. Leonard Bernstein and André Previn could perform 'beautiful' music whether classical, pops, jazz. They were (are) at home with Mozart or Gershwin on Broadway or Carnegie Hall. This is the mark of a true musician, not very common in 'classical music' performers.

He was an amazing pianist wasnt he? And not bad for a 67 year old singer!

Bernstein, ever the upstager, accompanies in a manner that is so incredibly busy and aggressive that he ruins the performance, for me at least.

accompanying???...assault! what a horrid upstage attempt

In "this" musical excerpt, she often sings next to the note and look for catching the note. In other recordings, I also noticed that she slides to catch the right note, she can not catch it directly. Here, she sings false, that's all. A style ? I dunno, not so good. I can't see (hear) what is so amazing... ?? Sorry.