The Concert

by Barbra Streisand

Overview

Barbra Streisand's fourth live album was the only one to be drawn from a concert tour and not a one-time occasion, but it is no less special for that. For her first tour in 28 years, Streisand didn't just come out and sing her greatest hits for an hour-and-a-half. Instead, she wove a selection of her best-known songs together with what she considered career highlights and added new and special material, starting with the customized lyrics of "As If We Never Said Goodbye" and "I'm Still Here," and including "Ordinary Miracles," by her conductor, Marvin Hamlisch and her house lyricists, Alan and Marilyn Bergman. The show was a musical autobiography crafted (as her 1991 boxed set Just for the Record had been) for fans who would catch the references and agree with the artist on her viewpoints about her life, her career, the entertainment business, and politics. (And it was an abridged resume -- rockers like "Stoney End" and disco hits like "Enough Is Enough" were omitted.) There was no denying that the 52-year-old singer, backed by a large orchestra and singing the songs that had kept her at the forefront of popular music for 30 years, was an impressive concert performer. But Streisand insisted that her listeners also encounter everything from her film directing ambitions to her psychoanalyst which made this an idiosyncratic performance from an artist determined to make public art out of her private story. As a result, The Concert may not be the place for neophytes to be introduced to her, though for fans it was the culmination of decades of wishing. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	05/02/1995
Label:	Columbia
UPC:	0074646710029

Tracks

1. Overture
2. As If We Never Said Goodbye
3. Opening Remarks
4. I'm Still Here/Everybody Says Don't/Don't Rain on My Parade
5. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
6. I'll Know
7. People
8. Will He Like Me?
9. He Touched Me
10. Evergreen
11. The Man That Got Away
12. Way We Were
13. You Don't Bring Me Flowers
14. Lazy Afternoon
15. Not While I'm Around
16. Ordinary Miracles
17. Yentl Medley: Where Is It Written?/Papa, Can You Hear Me?/Will Someone
18. Happy Days Are Here Again
19. My Man
20. Somewhere

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Barbra Streisand   Primary Artist,Vocals
Marlon Brando   Primary Artist
Marvin Hamlisch   Guest Artist,Director,Conductor
David Taylor   Tuba,Trombone (Bass)
Neil Stubenhaus   Bass (Electric)
Randy Waldman   Piano,Synthesizer
Lawrence Feldman   Reeds
Karen Bentley   Violin
David Tofani   Reeds
Clay Ruede   Cello
Bruce Wang   Cello
Bob Keller   Reeds
Tony Kadleck   Trumpet
Alvin McCall   Cello
Scott Kuney   Guitar
Alfred Brown   Viola
Jeanne LeBlanc   Cello
Carol Pool   Violin
Danny Cahn   Trumpet
Jeff Carney   Bass
George Flynn   Tuba,Trombone,Trombone (Bass)
Marsha Cahn   Viola
John Winder   Reeds
Ellen Westerman   Cello
Lisa Brooke   Violin
Nancy McAlbany   Violin
Diane Monroe   Violin
Chris Komer   French Horn
Simon Franglen   Synclavier
Keith O'Quinn   Trombone
Sanford Allen   Violin
Stephanie Cummins   Cello
Cenovia Cummins   Violin
Ralph Morrison III   Violin
Jacqui Danilow   Bass
Elizabeth Lim   Violin
Masako Yanagita   Violin
Bill Sloat   Bass
Daryl Shaw   Trumpet
Emily Mitchell   Harp
Peter Gordon   French Horn
John Beal   Bass
Avril Brown   Violin
Robin Eubanks   Trombone
Lew Soloff   Trumpet
Roger Rosenberg   Reeds
Norman Freeman   Percussion
Marti Sweet   Violin
Nancy McAlhany   Violin
Steve Susskind   Vocals
Mary Whitaker   Violin
Linda Moss   Viola
Claudia Hafter Tondi   Violin
Katie Dennis   French Horn
Chase Morrison   Cello
Ethel Abelson   Violin
John "J.R." Robinson   Drums
Mort Lindsey   Conductor
Sylvia d'Avanso   Violin
Jeremy Szabo   Oboe,Horn (English)
Mark Orrin Shuman   Cello
Diane Barere   Cello
Barry Finclair   Violin
Sylvia Davanzo   Violin
Brian Koonin   Guitar
John Clark   French Horn
Jill Jaffe   Viola
Ann Leathers   Violin
Jim Pugh   Trombone
Maxine Roach   Viola
Abe Appleman   Violin
Julien Barber   Viola
Winterton Garvey   Violin
Bill Hayes   Percussion
Mimi Dye   Viola
Anne Callahan   Cello
Ming Yeh   Violin

Technical Credits

Jimmy Davis   Composer
Randy Ezratty   Engineer
Alan Bergman   Composer
Stephen Sondheim   Composer
Stan Freberg   Composer
Sheldon Harnick   Composer
Paul Williams   Composer
Andrew Lloyd Webber   Composer
Frank Loesser   Composer
Burton Lane   Composer
Jimmy Sherman   Composer
J. Fred Coots   Composer
Jack Lawrence   Composer
Larry Morey   Composer
Christopher Hampton   Composer
Jack Yellen   Composer
Alan Jay Lerner   Composer
Frank Churchill   Composer
Ira Levin   Composer
Brian Faehndrich   Assistant Engineer
Trevor Rabin   Composer
John Kander   Composer
Jerome Kern   Composer
Harold Arlen   Composer
Firooz Zahedi   Photography
Dave Roberts   Assistant Engineer
Nancy Donald   Art Direction
Brian Kingman   Assistant Engineer
Dylan Tran   Design
Matthew Rolston   Photography
Marvin Hamlisch   Arranger,Composer
Don Black   Composer
George Gershwin   Composer
Ira Gershwin   Composer
Janet Gari   Composer
John Harris   Engineer
Marilyn Bergman   Composer
David Shire   Composer
Dave Reitzas   Mixing
Jay Landers   Producer,Liner Notes
Leigh Harline   Composer
Leonard Bernstein   Composer
Leslie Bricusse   Composer
Ryan Hewitt   Assistant Engineer
Jule Styne   Composer
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky   Composer
Peter Fletcher   Production Manager
Ned Washington   Composer
Phil Gitomer   Assistant Engineer
Juerg Morgenthaler   Composer
Kevin Mazur   Photography
Milton Schafer   Composer
Grant Clarke   Composer
Michel Legrand   Composer
Milton Ager   Composer
James F. Hanley   Composer
Harold Rome   Composer
Miklos Rozsa   Composer
Brandon Harris   Assistant Engineer
Richard Adler   Composer
Bob Merrill   Composer
Jacques Charles   Composer
Barney Bigard   Composer
James Newton Howard   Composer
Channing Pollack   Composer
Oscar Hammerstein II   Composer
Richard Rodgers   Composer
Mark Mancina   Composer
Roger "Ram" Ramirez   Composer
Sean McClintock   Assistant Engineer
Jerome Moross   Composer
Jerry Bock   Composer
Jerry Ross   Composer
Barbra Streisand   Composer,Producer
Neil Diamond   Composer
Maurice Yvain   Composer
Albert Willemetz   Composer
Bruce Jackson   Mixing