Brooklyn Duo - A Thousand Years [WEDDING VERSION]
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"A Thousand Years" by Cristina Perri, arranged by Brooklyn Duo and performed live by Brooklyn Duo and Dover Quartet. Get the sheet music here: https://www.brooklynduo.com/sheet-music
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Our FULL ALBUM with the Dover Quartet is out everywhere now!!! It's called "Chamber Music" and you can listen to it wherever you stream music! ๐ฅณ
We've been wanting to cover this song for ages, and when planning this project with Dover we knew this would be perfect to do with them. We love how it turned out and hope you do, too!
Head over to Brooklyn Classical after this to watch Dover's latest classical video, Mozart's famous Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (https://bit.ly/3mSb02U), part of their new album "Encores" that's out everywhere now.
We'll see you all again next week for another new video!
Special thank you to Casey Schmidt and Northwest Grip for his video expertise.
Brooklyn Duo:
Marnie Laird, piano
Patrick Laird, cello
Dover Quartet:
Joel Link, violin
Bryan Lee, violin
Milena Pajaro-van-de-Stadt, viola
Camden Shaw, cello
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Patrick performs exclusively on Pirastro strings (http://www.pirastro.com).
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LYRICS:
Heart beats fast
Colors and promises
How to be brave?
How can I love when I'm afraid to fall?
But watching you stand alone
All of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow
One step closer
I have died every day waiting for you
Darling, don't be afraid
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
Time stands still
Beauty in all she is
I will be brave
I will not let anything take away
What's standing in front of me
Every breath
Every hour has come to this
One step closer
I have died every day waiting for you
Darling, don't be afraid
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
And all along I believed I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
One step closer
I have died every day waiting for you
Darling don't be afraid
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
And all along I believed I would find you
Time has brought your heart to me
I have loved you for a thousand years
I'll love you for a thousand more
BROOKLYN DUO BIO:
Founded in 2014, Brooklyn Duo has quickly established itself as one of todayโs most successful classical crossover ensembles. Through its creative arrangements and live video performances, the piano and cello duo has garnered a huge following, with over 1.2 million YouTube subscribers and over 150 million streams annually on platforms such as Spotify and Pandora Radio. Their music has been used in numerous television shows, including Grey's Anatomy, Pretty Little Liars, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, America's Got Talent, and most recently during the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
Members Marnie and Patrick Laird met while students at the same chamber music festival and were married in 2012. Both worked as professional musicians after graduating from the Eastman and Juilliard schools of music, respectively; Patrick as a founding member of popular cello rock band, Break of Reality, and Marnie as principal pianist of the New World Symphony. In 2014, on a whim, the couple recorded two covers and released them on YouTube. They were thrilled when Shakira herself took notice of their cover and tweeted about it. The boost from that exposure and the positive response they were getting on YouTube encouraged them to continue creating videos.
Today, Marnie and Patrick have released over 100 videos on their Brooklyn Duo YouTube channel and 10 albums of covers, spanning artists from The Beatles to Metallica to Ariana Grande. They also have a second YouTube channel, "Brooklyn Classical", which aims to introduce classical music to a larger audience through high quality, live video performances.
Popular classical music stations Classic FM and WQXR regularly share Brooklyn Duoโs music on their social media pages, with Classic FM calling the duo โmasters of the artfully planned pop cover.โ
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