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By Leonard Bernstein
from Candide

During the pandemic, the cooped-up Zaslaw/Borthwick family—a.k.a. the Zaswick Quartet—started making videos of David Borthwick’s string arrangements for fun, sometimes doubling parts, occasionally abetted remotely by other members of the CBH Strings. They ended up sharing their homegrown video of “Make Our Garden Grow” with the congregation during remote Simchat Torah services, and our music leaders decided to include the audio here.

This song is the finale from Leonard Bernstein’s musical adaptation of the philosophical satire Candide by Voltaire. At the end of the show, the main characters, having endured a series of calamities and setbacks, content themselves doing what they can to improve this flawed world in their own small ways. While the music stands on its own, the original lyrics speak to us, too:
We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good
We’ll do the best we know
We’ll build our house and chop our wood
And make our garden grow

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from Red Thread, released December 10, 2020

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