It"s a "Great Tribute" to Frank Sinatra and picking Darren Chriss to join you with the unforgettable melody of songs that brought many of us joy, romance and laughter. Thank You Michael Feinstein.
Absolutely incredible. Darren's voice is amazing. I'm privileged to have been able to hear him sing live and his voice makes you melt. Plus he looks gorgeous!
Wow!! Darren Criss and Michael Feinstein did a outstanding job on those Frank Sinatra songs. I could have listened all night. Darren your voice is amazing. Whether its Lea Chris, Mark ,Chord, anyone your voice blends perfectly. ♡ Thank you for sharing your talents p9
This is the first time I’ve heard him sing and knew nil about him, now I’m hooked! Subscribed to Darren’s channel! What a great performance from 2 great singers! Iconic!!!!
That was unbelievable! I'm pretty sure all those people became fans of Darren that evening, even if they didn't know him before. Those harmonies were amazing, the warmth of Darren's voice gave a special quality to the songs, everything just worked perfectly! What a beautiful performance by two incredible talents! Frank would've been proud! :)
Michael Feinstein musically has impeccable taste and coupled with Darren Criss' harmonies were such that many times I could hear a retro Barry Sisters. And that as Sammy Davis Jr. would say is a WOW!
Darren Criss est l'un de mes coup de cœur artistique de Glee. Je trouve qu'il a énormément de talent en tant qu'acteur mais également en tant que chanteur et compositeur. J'adore sa voix et j’espère qu'un jour, il sortira un album avec ces propres compos.
Either the sound guys made Darren more balanced or he has an insane blending ability. Because when he does his harmony it’s quieter and doesn’t take over
Sinatra got most of the great songs, though there were many great singers. Thank you two for giving tribute to the great songwriters with skill and class and swing!
Yey, Filipino genes.... Darren’s father is American-born, and is of English, German, Northern Irish, and remote Scottish, ancestry. Darren’s mother is Filipino-born, and has Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese ancestry. In an interview on Philstar, Darren stated that he knows basic Visayan rather than Tagalog.
These guys sing with energy and sweet harmony. But the depth of Sinatra's Hamlet-like ballad interpretations ("wrist-slashers," or "suicide songs," he called them) can't even be implied by a cabaret act. Sinatra's genius resided in his ability to remove these songs from such ephemera and raise them to the level of timeless and universal art. When it comes to the up-tempo numbers, the word "swing" has vanished from the American vocabulary since Frank, the hardest-swinger of all, last had his turn at these tunes. Modern vaudeville-like treatments of Sinatra material substitute Welk-like "peppiness" for Sinatra's time-shifting, Louis-like execution ("the only singer who," drummer Sonny Payne once said, "made we WANT to swing"). Finally, when Frank sang Hammerstein or "Bess, Where's My Bess?" or "If You Are But a Dream" (in the '40s, '50s, '60s) his voice soared above the largest symphony orchestras and reached the highest and furthest balconies. Like Shakespeare (and Orson Welles) he was bigger than any TV or computer screen. Some former haters of Sinatra are kidding themselves if they suddenly think they "like" Ole Blue based on flimsy evidence.
+caponsacchi Your perspective has a lot of merit, even though I do like the music on display here. You're right IMO about the issue of depth, Sinatra vs. these guys, and the "Hamlet-like" gravitas of Frank. You're also right IMO about the issue of swing or lack thereof. True swing is a spiritual profundity of temporal art, and is only superficially "peppy". To hear swing and hear only that it's "peppy" is a classic vulgar American "miss" of what's being conveyed. Thanks for clarifying that for me; as soon as you said it, I realized the truth of what you're saying. I love these songs, and I'm a big fan of Feinstein's, but I'll tell you a secret: what I'm really a fan of is his best work, his most soulful and most creative, which is, unexpectedly, on his CHILDREN'S album, "Pure Imagination", available here on CZcams. Give it a listen and let me know what you think. My theory is that, when he as singing for children he dropped several layers of masks and sang from the heart, from his own inner child. It's still perhaps saccharine, but it's redeemed by the fact that it's intended for children, where naivete is appropriate. Thanks again.
Feinstein has every right to be humble about representing "The Voice," "The Chair," "The Master Storyteller." Every singer and musician (including Feinstein, Criss, and Pizzarelli) who attempts to represent Sinatra does him injury unless he or she first comes to terms with the BASIS of Sinatra's singular brilliance: It was Frank Sinatra who, for the first time, made listeners take notice of not merely the singer and his or her vocal quality ("pretty voices" are a dime a dozen) but the song and its composer. That's why Frank Sinatra, more than any other single artist, "created" the Great American Songbook. Were it not for "Ole Blue," many of these songs (now referred to as "standards") would have suffered the same fate as the long-forgotten revues for which they were originally written by Rodgers&Hart, Harold Arlen, etc. You can't represent Sinatra by a mere half-dozen songs any more than you can capture the artistry of the Songbook without the high standards of interpretation and presentation introduced by Frank. Why do so few people understand that, in addition to the African-American art of jazz, this country can take equal pride in giving birth to the 32-bar American Popular Song (as unique as jazz, yet utterly inseparable from the music that improvises on "Standards" from the Songbook). Please, will somebody help finance a Ken Burns series on the American Popular Song (one composer a week, from Berlin hrough Jimmy Van Heusen)? (With a few notable exceptions--e.g. Duke Ellington and Cole Porter--the major songwriters have been Jewish-Americans.)
+caponsacchi Again I agree with you, and want to highlight one of Sinatra's biggest contributions to vocal artistry, and that is his "speech-level singing." Early Sinatra sounds like all the other crooners, with a "singy" tone (e.g. a noticeable vibrato) and diction. Somewhere along the way, he came forth with his talking-singing, where it sounds, not like he's vocalizing or being a singer, but like he's telling a story, only the emotions have led him to the intensification of rhythm and pitch that makes it become singing. Every singer since him has been influenced by what he did there.
Michael Feinstein is the standard which all singers and musicians should measure themselves against. His Gershwin record is the best recording of all time.
Darren singing Frank Sinatra.... This is honestly a dream!
My sexuality: Darren Criss singing Frank Sinatra.
2:13 that little dance to the beat though 😂😂 Darren you cutie
I love the way he immediately undid the tie and top button. Getting ready to blow it away. I love him.
Darren's voice kills me in all the best ways. :)
That was just unbelievable. They really channeled in the Frank Sinatra style, and Darren sounded absolutely amazing.
Darren is so gorgeous and talented. His voice is amazing and just seems to get better as he ages.
It"s a "Great Tribute" to Frank Sinatra and picking Darren Chriss to join you with the unforgettable melody of songs that brought many of us joy, romance and laughter. Thank You Michael Feinstein.
" Ladies and Gentlemen.. the amazing Darren Criss " great duet.. wow !!
Like a hand in a glove...their tone and pitch works so well together.
Absolutely incredible. Darren's voice is amazing. I'm privileged to have been able to hear him sing live and his voice makes you melt. Plus he looks gorgeous!
Darren sounds great. He looks great damn.
AMAZING.. I love Darren.. He has the Most Talented voice ever. I love this!
Oh, I can listen to Darren sing all day long and back again. I love his mellow voice on these standards from "Old Blue Eyes."
So much talent on one stage. Good golly gosh. What a way to welcome the new year.
Darren is so talented. He can sing almost any song far from from his generation.
Darren the best male voice of glee!
Wow!! Darren Criss and Michael Feinstein did a outstanding job on those Frank Sinatra songs. I could have listened all night. Darren your voice is amazing. Whether its Lea Chris, Mark ,Chord, anyone your voice blends perfectly. ♡ Thank you for sharing your talents p9
seriously Darren is beyond perfect!!!
God, so much talent in one person. Love this guy soooooo much
This is the first time I’ve heard him sing and knew nil about him, now I’m hooked! Subscribed to Darren’s channel! What a great performance from 2 great singers! Iconic!!!!
OMG absolutely love that performance. Fell in love listening to Michael Feinstein 25 years ago .
all i want is darren to do a solo album where he just covers frank sinatra songs
@Jim20 calm down, sissy
@Jim20 Some people just need a high-five in the face, with a chair.
@Jim20 you've got the ass, broken
I absolutely love this! Darren can do anything. Love this man
that was unbelievable =) I love Darren Criss voice
That was unbelievable! I'm pretty sure all those people became fans of Darren that evening, even if they didn't know him before. Those harmonies were amazing, the warmth of Darren's voice gave a special quality to the songs, everything just worked perfectly! What a beautiful performance by two incredible talents! Frank would've been proud! :)
Darren is so perfect... It's scared at me...😍😍❤️💛💘💖😳
Michael Feinstein musically has impeccable taste and coupled with Darren Criss' harmonies were such that many times I could hear a retro Barry Sisters. And that as Sammy Davis Jr. would say is a WOW!
There are also "A Foggy Day", "Night And Day", "I've Got You Under My Skin" included :)
Frank had Swagger in Spades and MIchael & Darren showed us again, Congrats Guys. Great job !!!
I rember watcing this live on pbs new years eve and i fell inlove with this genre of music
oh GOD i'm obsessed!
Why in the world did that audience not stand up? What a great performance!
This is absolutely amazing and incredible... Love You Dare... always will
These two are great together....Love Michael Feinstein!
This was the absolute highlight of all my music experiences this New Year's Celebration! Fantastic!
Darren Criss est l'un de mes coup de cœur artistique de Glee. Je trouve qu'il a énormément de talent en tant qu'acteur mais également en tant que chanteur et compositeur. J'adore sa voix et j’espère qu'un jour, il sortira un album avec ces propres compos.
ahhh my fckin holy god. it is supermegafoxyawesomehot. im in love with Darren and when he sings this song by Sinatra..
oh mine,
DARREN´S VOICE IS SO HOT, GOOOODDD
Fabulous tribute to Frank! Two tremendously talented guys with very gorgeous voices! Loved it!
i love darren's twist on sinatra portrays him amazing
When does he not sound gorgeous?
That was gorgeous, and the performance was great too!!!
Either the sound guys made Darren more balanced or he has an insane blending ability. Because when he does his harmony it’s quieter and doesn’t take over
He's had a lot of training and experience! I'm sure he was able to figure out when he needed to step it up and when to keep it quieter.
O que posso falar Darren e tudo de bom.
YOU MAKE ME FEEL SO YOUNG
Wow, just wow. Excellent job, fellas. 🅰️➕➕➕➕➕➕➕
What a treat! I've seen Michael in concert many times over the years and Darren has become a favorite in our home, also! Both together? Perfection!
Doesnt get better than Frank and. FEINSTEIN two of the greatest
I love Darren Criss.
i just watched a video of darren singing sugar daddy as hedwig so seeing him in a nice suit singing frank sinatra is really disturbing
that is exactly where I just came from, too. such a layered onion this man
Oh how I love them both 😍😍😍😍😍
God, I need Darren to croon some more. That was stunning. And Michael was great too!
Loved that's life so amazing
Totally incredible video and great song and the lyrics are too..I love this song..Thank you so much
Darren Criss and Michael Feinstein have a person chemistry that I have not seen in 2 singers in a very long time. Wonderful
reminded me of the clips of sinatra and dean performing together.
To be fair Darren has chemistry with everyone
Perfecto
Beautiful
this is just beautiful
First of all, thank you to Frank Sinatra for having such a beautiful and romantic voice. Second of all, thanks to Darren for being amazing as well :)
Not bad at all. Reminded me of those old variety shows where two stars would sing a medley of standards.
That was so fun!!😍.
Perfect harmonies!
Sinatra got most of the great songs, though there were many great singers. Thank you two for giving tribute to the great songwriters with skill and class and swing!
Michael Feinstein já está na galeria dos maiores cantores dos EUA. Não conhecia Darren Criss, é excelente! (Rio, 9/5/18).
Loving 🥰 this….. ♥️🎶🥀🎶♥️🥰😎Chris
So good.
Fantastic,
This whole medley is put together is and written by Michael Feinstein, who is a real genius here and a far better singer of the two.
GREAT job.
OMG I LOVE DARREN!!
Love the duo😅😊
Darren's voice sounds extra raspy. It is is fucking HOT
love Michael - he is outstanding
I am LOVE him! ❤️❤️
Yey, Filipino genes.... Darren’s father is American-born, and is of English, German, Northern Irish, and remote Scottish, ancestry. Darren’s mother is Filipino-born, and has Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese ancestry. In an interview on Philstar, Darren stated that he knows basic Visayan rather than Tagalog.
I want the power to just call up Darren Criss!!!!!!!!!!
All this drooling over Darren.....
Naughty thoughts, night and day.
These guys sing with energy and sweet harmony. But the depth of Sinatra's Hamlet-like ballad interpretations ("wrist-slashers," or "suicide songs," he called them) can't even be implied by a cabaret act. Sinatra's genius resided in his ability to remove these songs from such ephemera and raise them to the level of timeless and universal art.
When it comes to the up-tempo numbers, the word "swing" has vanished from the American vocabulary since Frank, the hardest-swinger of all, last had his turn at these tunes. Modern vaudeville-like treatments of Sinatra material substitute Welk-like "peppiness" for Sinatra's time-shifting, Louis-like execution ("the only singer who," drummer Sonny Payne once said, "made we WANT to swing"). Finally, when Frank sang Hammerstein or "Bess, Where's My Bess?" or "If You Are But a Dream" (in the '40s, '50s, '60s) his voice soared above the largest symphony orchestras and reached the highest and furthest balconies. Like Shakespeare (and Orson Welles) he was bigger than any TV or computer screen. Some former haters of Sinatra are kidding themselves if they suddenly think they "like" Ole Blue based on flimsy evidence.
+caponsacchi Your perspective has a lot of merit, even though I do like the music on display here. You're right IMO about the issue of depth, Sinatra vs. these guys, and the "Hamlet-like" gravitas of Frank. You're also right IMO about the issue of swing or lack thereof. True swing is a spiritual profundity of temporal art, and is only superficially "peppy". To hear swing and hear only that it's "peppy" is a classic vulgar American "miss" of what's being conveyed. Thanks for clarifying that for me; as soon as you said it, I realized the truth of what you're saying.
I love these songs, and I'm a big fan of Feinstein's, but I'll tell you a secret: what I'm really a fan of is his best work, his most soulful and most creative, which is, unexpectedly, on his CHILDREN'S album, "Pure Imagination", available here on CZcams. Give it a listen and let me know what you think. My theory is that, when he as singing for children he dropped several layers of masks and sang from the heart, from his own inner child. It's still perhaps saccharine, but it's redeemed by the fact that it's intended for children, where naivete is appropriate. Thanks again.
And their Harmony is wonderful also.:-O:-O:-):-):-D:-D Medleys are fun and excellent.Darren is very kind too.AAAWWWW!!Yay!!
Feinstein has every right to be humble about representing "The Voice," "The Chair," "The Master Storyteller." Every singer and musician (including Feinstein, Criss, and Pizzarelli) who attempts to represent Sinatra does him injury unless he or she first comes to terms with the BASIS of Sinatra's singular brilliance: It was Frank Sinatra who, for the first time, made listeners take notice of not merely the singer and his or her vocal quality ("pretty voices" are a dime a dozen) but the song and its composer. That's why Frank Sinatra, more than any other single artist, "created" the Great American Songbook. Were it not for "Ole Blue," many of these songs (now referred to as "standards") would have suffered the same fate as the long-forgotten revues for which they were originally written by Rodgers&Hart, Harold Arlen, etc.
You can't represent Sinatra by a mere half-dozen songs any more than you can capture the artistry of the Songbook without the high standards of interpretation and presentation introduced by Frank. Why do so few people understand that, in addition to the African-American art of jazz, this country can take equal pride in giving birth to the 32-bar American Popular Song (as unique as jazz, yet utterly inseparable from the music that improvises on "Standards" from the Songbook). Please, will somebody help finance a Ken Burns series on the American Popular Song (one composer a week, from Berlin hrough Jimmy Van Heusen)? (With a few notable exceptions--e.g. Duke Ellington and Cole Porter--the major songwriters have been Jewish-Americans.)
+caponsacchi Again I agree with you, and want to highlight one of Sinatra's biggest contributions to vocal artistry, and that is his "speech-level singing." Early Sinatra sounds like all the other crooners, with a "singy" tone (e.g. a noticeable vibrato) and diction. Somewhere along the way, he came forth with his talking-singing, where it sounds, not like he's vocalizing or being a singer, but like he's telling a story, only the emotions have led him to the intensification of rhythm and pitch that makes it become singing. Every singer since him has been influenced by what he did there.
Omg amzing duo
Very nice,very suave
Darren singing Sinatra ? Is this real ?! 😍😍
Michael Feinstein is the standard which all singers and musicians should measure themselves against. His Gershwin record is the best recording of all time.
You make me feel so young reminds me of Klaine
Okay. I am the first viewer. ❤️ i so love this dare
Worlds artist
So much music in a way to short tribute... I want more
Wow this Feinstein guy is very, uh, flamboyant.
Great way to pay tribute to old blue eyes himself
wow *_*
You make me feel so young^^
7:12-7:18 I need you under my skin.
I still can't get used to those Sinatra songs that border on being FLAT musically.
Feinstein is so FINE!!!
I don't know how much I played this vid...
When they sing witchcraft... I imagine darren ohhh no its Harry Freakin Potter.
Hey, it's the guy who killed Versace
Someone tell me the name of the songs please 🙏.
I wonder what range is Darren. tenor or baritone.
Cole Porter was, is and willbe THE MAN! :)
Feinsten Looks like hes in love with Darren
Kinda disturbs me (cause hes so much older) but i also cant blame him cause same