Leontyne Price "The Lord's Prayer" on The Ed Sullivan Show

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Komentáře • 146

  • @brianbarrow6098
    @brianbarrow6098 Před 2 měsíci +7

    I hope I won't sound racist,but black people are BLESSED with that gift of singing.

  • @ebonyjewel-star866
    @ebonyjewel-star866 Před 2 měsíci +9

    Here in May 2024 being blown away. Thank you Ms. Price

  • @lovesings2us
    @lovesings2us Před 3 měsíci +6

    I can't thank God enough for giving us Leontyne Price.

  • @timothythomas1951
    @timothythomas1951 Před 3 lety +111

    She is Blessed with Age!!! 93 and Still alive!!!

    • @Paul-wu5qy
      @Paul-wu5qy Před 3 lety +6

      Great voices like Miss Price are heaven sent!

    • @sashineb.2114
      @sashineb.2114 Před 2 lety +7

      Yes, and I've had the thrill of hearing her in recital twice. She even so kindly autographed my copy of the program.

    • @ransomcoates546
      @ransomcoates546 Před 2 lety +4

      Alive and no doubt still singing high C.

    • @shicoff1398
      @shicoff1398 Před rokem

      @@ransomcoates546 A beautiful rendition, I saw her long ago in her prime days, but later then this 1961 appearance, and that was also excellent. She uses a bit more Vibrato here when I saw her in opera, but her vibrato here is really excellent. Brava!

    • @williamdavidcraigjr7841
      @williamdavidcraigjr7841 Před rokem +4

      95 and still alive

  • @pablobanados6552
    @pablobanados6552 Před 3 lety +72

    At the end of the song, She bows her head with such reverence and respect. You can tell she really means what she sings.

  • @ellisonhorne
    @ellisonhorne Před 4 měsíci +9

    This show aired on Easter Sunday, 1961.

  • @davidsongarrett8087
    @davidsongarrett8087 Před 2 lety +91

    The greatest singer the United States of America has ever known, and will ever know. Brava Diva!

    • @swisschoklate736
      @swisschoklate736 Před rokem +7

      Hush! What a foolish statement. She’s one of and cud NEVER be the greatest. Geez ! Y’all and your foolish emotions.

    • @davidsongarrett8087
      @davidsongarrett8087 Před rokem +1

      @@swisschoklate736 You obviously never heard her live in opera or concert, or you would change your tune.

    • @baritonebynight
      @baritonebynight Před rokem +3

      She was one of them.....but the greatest is a matter of opinion. For me, I can't choose the very best because there are so many who I loved. I saw her perform her penultimate recital in the late 1990s. She was about 70 and sounded 20 years her junior.

    • @angre3745
      @angre3745 Před rokem +4

      Not to forget Jessye Norman...... both were godesses!

    • @SoLNaTaL555
      @SoLNaTaL555 Před 9 měsíci +1

      Wow! You're right! Most will deny it, but she was the best born American singer.

  • @lipingfeng
    @lipingfeng Před rokem +17

    it takes a voice like this to bring heaven to earth, and to lift up the earth to heaven. O my O my!

    • @raycurry4168
      @raycurry4168 Před 11 měsíci

      I agree, so nicely said lipingfeng.

  • @sgnmath1234
    @sgnmath1234 Před 3 lety +40

    This is what we saw on late night entertainment back in the day. So sad what is on today.

    • @pablobanados6552
      @pablobanados6552 Před 3 lety +3

      This is so true.

    • @karlapetersen3406
      @karlapetersen3406 Před 11 měsíci

      Yeah, politely singing operatic songs to yte audiences, having had to enter from a separate "colored" entrance. We entertained them, while they comfortably remained unjustly racist, murderous, deceptive, divisive, disenfranchising, lying, violating, yknow, evil...to this day. Let's not romanticize america, she is worsely the same!!

    • @winterbelle708
      @winterbelle708 Před 9 měsíci

      it’s just different? y’all can’t appreciate art until it’s art you deem valid and it shows

    • @ellisonhorne
      @ellisonhorne Před 4 měsíci

      This show was on Easter Sunday, in 1961.

    • @lovesings2us
      @lovesings2us Před 3 měsíci

      @@ellisonhorne Thank you for letting us know.

  • @gerardinewoods5809
    @gerardinewoods5809 Před měsícem +3

    What a beautiful lady with a voice to match she would make you cry.

  • @valeriesmith5780
    @valeriesmith5780 Před měsícem +1

    Kudos to the late Ed Sullivan for bringing such a gifted singer to your stage.

  • @mariposamarshall9773
    @mariposamarshall9773 Před rokem +15

    She sounds like Marion Anderson in certain phrases- especially the vocal vibrato-Supremely Beautiful

  • @keiwon.x.lambert
    @keiwon.x.lambert Před 2 lety +9

    All I see is a Queen flexing her lower and middle register. Just marvelous.

  • @zacharylavender1568
    @zacharylavender1568 Před 13 dny +1

    Her lower register is lovely!

  • @paulawashington3175
    @paulawashington3175 Před 2 lety +8

    Not only did she have a gorgeous voice, but her diction was so clear that the subtitles were not necessary.

  • @dougt3652
    @dougt3652 Před rokem +12

    Glorious voice!!! I was fortunate to have purchased all her recordings beginning in the mid 60s and heard her frequently at the Metropolitan Opera numerous times. Beautiful voice with power when needed to flood the theater.
    This video of her performance demonstrates what she sounded like and no wonder that she had such a fantastic international and recording career.

  • @geraldinetalley3664
    @geraldinetalley3664 Před 3 lety +11

    If this is from a 1961 broadcast, at 34, Ms. Price had not reached her fullest potential as La Diva. I had the pleasure of hearing her in person on a Sunday afternoon back in the 80s when the late maestro, Dr. Nathan M. Carter along with the famed Morgan State University Choir brought her to Baltimore. A dream of a lifetime for me. In 2018, PBS did a special, The Opera House on the building of the new Metropolitan Opera House that Ms. Price opened in 1966. She was also a guest in that documentary. Ms. Price reached the pinnacle of opera successes by sharing her gift in the famed opera houses around the world. She is a living treasure.

  • @alicenelson8615
    @alicenelson8615 Před 2 lety +5

    I see no reason to be criticizing her here, or posting reviews that did. What is the point? To make commenters look more "intelligent"? Well, it isn't working. Just enjoy this greatest of American sopranos.

  • @tyxikosgatpopoulos4004
    @tyxikosgatpopoulos4004 Před 2 lety +8

    She almost sounds like a contralto.What a range.

  • @KajiVocals
    @KajiVocals Před 3 lety +45

    I didn't know she had this kind of lower range!! Impressive.

    • @ebestignani2699
      @ebestignani2699 Před 3 lety +5

      Yes in the early years she did!

    • @geraldinetalley3664
      @geraldinetalley3664 Před 3 lety +8

      @@ebestignani2699 She never lost her lower range. A singer doesn't loose that range. If anything, it's the higher range that drops as one gets older.

    • @ebestignani2699
      @ebestignani2699 Před 3 lety +5

      @@geraldinetalley3664 depends on the voice. Price kept the beautiful top- the middle and lower range became weaker over time. AIDA review April 21, 1967 MET in Boston." Leontyne Price in the title role has the ideal vocal equipment. She sang with power, with broad tonal gestures. So large is her voice that she had no trouble being heard even when competing with the several score chorus. The only flaw was a loss of tone when she pressed for volume in the lower range." ( Richard Cattani-Christian Science Monitor- printed on MET OPERA Database.)
      UN BALLO IN MASCHERA review April 17,1967 MET in Boston.
      "Amelia is a singularly difficult part: it needs all of Aida's high notes, but in addition requires a force in the low register far beyond what is called for in comparable roles. Leontyne Price's best singing in the duet with the King, and in "Morro, ma prima in grazia," was superb indeed, grand in style, handsome in sonority. There was, however, the repeated shock of the hollow, unsubstantial low notes, whose lack of quality and of sheer physical weight diminished the effect of many phrases." ( Michael Steinberg Boston Morning Globe- printed on MET OPERA Database).

    • @geraldinetalley3664
      @geraldinetalley3664 Před 3 lety +5

      @@ebestignani2699 I read the review, but I don't agree that a singer looses the lower register while maintaining their high register. Sometimes a singer will have a bad night. Perhaps others will weigh in on what they think about the length of time a singer's lower register verses their high register lasts.

    • @liedersanger1
      @liedersanger1 Před 2 lety +4

      @@geraldinetalley3664 You can hear the weakness in her lower middle-the bridge to the lower voice - in almost all of her later appearances and recordings. It was not a secret. Exactly what happened is up for debate. Her own longtime manager told a friend that she refused to talk even to him about it. And in an interview with Opera News news a few years ago she said that part of her range was “work, constant work.”

  • @BellaFirenze
    @BellaFirenze Před 2 lety +8

    The most beautiful voice I heard in the opera house. An American treasure.

  • @dantewalston2755
    @dantewalston2755 Před 3 lety +37

    Absolutely beautiful!

  • @monwagray5873
    @monwagray5873 Před 2 lety +10

    The best of the best😊😊everytime I hear her I get healed

  • @CarlosLopez-lq2qo
    @CarlosLopez-lq2qo Před rokem +5

    The greatest singer known to me

  • @exaudi33
    @exaudi33 Před 12 dny

    Sublime.

  • @liedersanger1
    @liedersanger1 Před 3 lety +18

    Heavenly. She also sang "Vissi d'arte" on this Easter Sunday April 2, 1961, Ed Sullivan broadcast. Perhaps the Sullivan folks will post that, too....

  • @artistsf1
    @artistsf1 Před 3 lety +18

    One has the sense Miss Price was truly in the heart space of the words she sings here.
    The effect is immediate, spiritually visceral - and sublime.
    The sounds that came through her during that decade of the 60s.... ineffable.
    This was taped just a couple of months after her Metropolitan Opera début.

    • @liedersanger1
      @liedersanger1 Před 3 lety +5

      Just so! And everyone listening prays with her.

  • @ramirocortes2549
    @ramirocortes2549 Před měsícem

    Maravillosa simplemente, a veces tiene registro de mezzosoprano, lo cual nos da una idea de la amplitud de éste . Es indescriptible lo que uno siente al escucharla . Creo que es la mejor de todos lo tiempos…opinión muy personal!!!

  • @Trinite33
    @Trinite33 Před 3 lety +42

    This is a beautiful reminder that Price sang as a "juicy mezzo" (her description) before her entrance to Juilliard on scholarship as a lyric soprano. After she sang Dido's Lament, "When I am laid in earth," from Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas," one of her coaches remarked, "It looks as though we have The Voice Of The Century!" How right he was!!!

    • @Trinite33
      @Trinite33 Před 3 lety +1

      @@liedersanger1 Not quite! She has used both descriptions in interviews over the years, "molasses" and "juicy." It is not a question of either/or but rather both/and.

    • @Trinite33
      @Trinite33 Před 3 lety

      @@liedersanger1 She has The Voice Of God.

    • @ebestignani2699
      @ebestignani2699 Před 3 lety

      @@liedersanger1 Yes in the early years the lower voice was very firm.

    • @onigbajamo
      @onigbajamo Před rokem +2

      she called herself a juicy lyric not a juicy mezzo

    • @Trinite33
      @Trinite33 Před rokem

      @@onigbajamo My Price mixed metaphor. She said she was a "thick, molasses mezzo." Cheers

  • @Jerry-xs1uz
    @Jerry-xs1uz Před 6 měsíci +2

    ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL

  • @eulalee2495
    @eulalee2495 Před rokem +5

    Truly Divine

  • @HarlemNights88
    @HarlemNights88 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Magnificent ❤🎉😊

  • @monty033
    @monty033 Před 2 lety +6

    Wow! Absolutely breathtaking. That range!!!!

  • @adambrocklehurst4211
    @adambrocklehurst4211 Před 2 měsíci

    Amen

  • @madeleinegrannec7757
    @madeleinegrannec7757 Před rokem +5

    Comment ne pas adorer une telle chanteuse. Elle nous transporte dans un monde merveilleux par sa beauté et son talent. Quelle chance nous avons d'entendre cette immeuse artiste. Elle est extraordinaire.

  • @bazthehandyman
    @bazthehandyman Před 2 lety +4

    Pure gold...so effortless.

  • @renaissanceinblack
    @renaissanceinblack Před 3 lety +7

    I'm surprised at this low key. But it sounds so good!

  • @dianaaljadeff2983
    @dianaaljadeff2983 Před rokem +1

    Leontine Price is still alive in 2023 and she is 96 years now

  • @Praisemove
    @Praisemove Před 2 měsíci

    I Didn’t Know She Sing Low either. Wow!!!

  • @timothythomas1951
    @timothythomas1951 Před 3 lety +6

    SING IT, SING IT!!!

  • @oralogarro9932
    @oralogarro9932 Před 3 lety +5

    This is just glorious 💖💖

  • @odieford4612
    @odieford4612 Před rokem +2

    Bravo, Dame Leontyne Price ! C’est magnifique !

  • @luciamazzetto8617
    @luciamazzetto8617 Před 3 lety +6

    My GOD is real me too

  • @sunahohemu
    @sunahohemu Před rokem +4

    Fantástica voz e interpretação

  • @lucianobezerra4380
    @lucianobezerra4380 Před 2 lety +1

    The greatest ! The greatest ! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @patrickjohnsonjr8264
    @patrickjohnsonjr8264 Před 2 lety +1

    She is gracie's lady wonderful opera singer God bless her

  • @simonchausse11
    @simonchausse11 Před 7 měsíci

    Simply in heaven!

  • @jamiepeterson839
    @jamiepeterson839 Před 2 lety +3

    Forgive us our debtor NOT devil! (bad transcribing) The performance and voice is perfection!

    • @elmaestro91
      @elmaestro91 Před 6 měsíci

      It's automated transcription. The computers unfortunately cannot catch everything.

  • @adrianadunan156
    @adrianadunan156 Před 3 lety +3

    GLORIOSA ♥

  • @1968KWT
    @1968KWT Před rokem

    Happy Birthday, La Splendissima!
    🎈🎉🎂🥳

  • @matteomangialetti9789
    @matteomangialetti9789 Před 7 měsíci

    The Pharyngeal Voice

  • @Thexavieralexander97
    @Thexavieralexander97 Před 3 lety +1

    ❤️❤️❤️

  • @ohmy5650
    @ohmy5650 Před 3 lety

    Gracious❣ 💎

  • @trblcleft
    @trblcleft Před 2 lety

    I'm in tears

  • @guerreirodedeus5200
    @guerreirodedeus5200 Před 3 lety

    Brillant!

  • @MyWorldofFragrance
    @MyWorldofFragrance Před 2 lety

    Lovely in every way 🌹

  • @TomElvisSmith
    @TomElvisSmith Před 3 lety +2

    All the versions you have posted of "The Lord's Prayer" have been wonderful!

  • @scottgrunow5201
    @scottgrunow5201 Před 2 lety

    Wow. What a rich mezzo quality

  • @aavalestormiconicperformer

    WONDEROUS 💕

  • @daveybalmer
    @daveybalmer Před 3 lety +6

    If the hairs on the back of your neck do not stand up on listening to this, then you were not paying attention!

    • @trilobit4
      @trilobit4 Před 2 lety

      Not only on the back of the neck but everywhere.

  • @tatters1232006
    @tatters1232006 Před 3 lety +1

    BRAVA

  • @ClaytonGWilliams
    @ClaytonGWilliams Před 3 lety +1

    🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡

  • @truth8508
    @truth8508 Před 2 lety +1

    Whoever wrote the captions was clueless. At 2:05 we're going to forgive our "devil". Stunning performance though.

  • @trilobit4
    @trilobit4 Před 2 lety

    God, she can always crush me completely. This is very unusual, it's a mezzo-soprano key.

  • @CarlosLopez-lq2qo
    @CarlosLopez-lq2qo Před rokem

    Leontyne Price, The Lord’s prayer

  • @mga2899
    @mga2899 Před rokem +2

    Price is 96. The prayer worked.

  • @Twentythousandlps
    @Twentythousandlps Před rokem

    Sung a fourth down from the standard high key. She made it work for her. Maybe it was the key she used when she first learned it.

  • @royaldomain4055
    @royaldomain4055 Před 2 lety +8

    Fun fact: this talented singer is related to Cissy & Whitney Houston and Dionne Warwick.

  • @avill012
    @avill012 Před 3 lety +2

    Praise God 🙏🙏🙏 does anyone know the composer arrangement? I'd love to sing this

    • @Trinite33
      @Trinite33 Před 3 lety +2

      It is the Malotte composition. This is usually sung in the tenor/soprano range, but Price is singing in the low voice contralto range here. Beautiful.

    • @avill012
      @avill012 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Trinite33 thank you . Found it! I'm a mezzo , but I will transpose.

    • @Trinite33
      @Trinite33 Před 3 lety +1

      @@avill012 So glad I could help. It's a great piece of music, a nice challenge for any singer. As a lyric spinto tenor, I always loved singing it, and I know you will enjoy it too. Good luck!

    • @avill012
      @avill012 Před 3 lety

      That must sound beautiful in your voice. Keep singing brother! Her on earth and on the mountain top! 🕊️

  • @direfranchement
    @direfranchement Před 3 lety +2

    Leontyne is singing "The Lord's Prayer" here and not "Vissi D'Arte". Please correct the title 🙏🏾🙂.

    • @Callipygous1975
      @Callipygous1975 Před 3 lety +2

      Somehow, I like it when the viewers know more about the Sullivan catalog than the owners.😎

  • @edsynio3556
    @edsynio3556 Před 2 lety

    PSAT: Tuhan, buat ma sorimago Covid-19 sian liat portibion. Asi rohaM mamereng hami. Amen.

  • @bellag249
    @bellag249 Před 29 dny

    Leontyne Price , Cissy Houston’s cousin who is Whitney’s mom .

  • @Tkimba2
    @Tkimba2 Před 3 lety +5

    She sound a lot like Marilyn Horne here.

    • @KajiVocals
      @KajiVocals Před 3 lety +12

      Way clearer voice than Horne's.

    • @Trinite33
      @Trinite33 Před 3 lety +13

      Actually, Price is channeling her beloved Marian Anderson here. The Great Soprano bowing to The Great Contralto!!!

    • @victordunson719
      @victordunson719 Před 3 lety +3

      My two ultimate favorite opera divas.😘

  • @Jochikralova
    @Jochikralova Před 3 měsíci

    Beautiful!!! The choir didn’t do such a good job 😬

  • @FelipeViannaNutriUFRJ
    @FelipeViannaNutriUFRJ Před 2 lety

    What's happened with THIS voice so beautifully developed throughout her carrier?! With the time goes on, she made her voice SO collapsed... Very sad. That's a healthy voice, a beautiful Price. The Price from 75 ahead is sad... 😔

    • @liedersanger1
      @liedersanger1 Před 2 lety +5

      Too bad you couldnt enjoy a great performance. Sad.

    • @FelipeViannaNutriUFRJ
      @FelipeViannaNutriUFRJ Před 2 lety

      @@liedersanger1 Too bad your idea of a good, healthy and developed voice is totally wrong. Did you read my comment?! Leontine's voice was STUNNING on her beginning. From 75 ahead, her voice, well, I don't know. It's seems she forget how to sing. 🤷‍♂️

    • @liedersanger1
      @liedersanger1 Před 2 lety +3

      @@FelipeViannaNutriUFRJ You missed my point. I didn’t challenge your opinion of her singing before or after 1975, though I don’t agree with it.

    • @FelipeViannaNutriUFRJ
      @FelipeViannaNutriUFRJ Před 2 lety

      @@liedersanger1 If you were referring to this performance, then my text makes it clear that she was at the height of her voice and kept the technique intact. But when using replacement, especially after '75, her voice just went downhill from there. This quality chest voice is no longer heard, even more interconnected to the other records, as in this video. There's a video of her singing "My Man's Gonne Now", in the 80's already, in her concert stage and retired from the opera, in which she demonstrates that her low register is totally disconnected from the register and the head voice. I didn't understand which part of my comment classified her performance of "The Lord's Prayer" as bad, or inappropriate.

    • @liedersanger1
      @liedersanger1 Před 2 lety +2

      @@FelipeViannaNutriUFRJ You're still missing my original point. I'm saying, you missed the chance to enjoy her singing without going to her perceived faults right away, and making that the focus of your comment. Sad.

  • @annparsons3458
    @annparsons3458 Před 2 lety

    "Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors," NOT 'Devils.' Trying to rewrite history. Sad. It was 'revised' to accommodate bankruptcy laws, to, "Forgive us our 'trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us."

  • @Gaspipenicklioni
    @Gaspipenicklioni Před rokem

    Whitney Houstons cousin