Tonight the A Cappella choir, Choral Union, Women's choir and the SFA Chamber Orchestra all performed the Christmas part of the Messiah. Usually when I hear the Messiah performed, there are only four soloists that sing the whole time. I get sick and tired of hearing just one person per part. In the concert tonight, there was a different person for each solo. Then of course the whole choir would come in on the chorus part. .
I thought that the whole choir did a really good job on the piece. The way everyone was talking, it sounded like it was going to be a long night. I think everyone surprised themselves. All the soloists were really good except a few of them. Nathan de Paz sang a solo, and not that he doesn't know what he's doing, I just don't like his voice and I thought he could have done a little better on his part. Of course he was singing right after Scott Quinn who has a great loud voice, though a little to heavy sometimes. Bonnie Bolinger was the other solo that didn't do a very good job. She was flat and shouldn't have been up there. Then it came to Kelli Mikeska who sang the song that we went over in class, Rejoice. I thought she did a really good job. That is a very hard song with a lot of melismas. She pulled it off very nicely and probably had the best solo of anyone that night. The choir finished by singing the Hallelujah chorus, which we also went over in class. The choir did a very good job on this as well. The fugues were really good, there were a few times where they got behind, but they always recovered. All in all, the choir did a really good job.
The orchestra did really well too. They seemed to follow Dr. King very good and they seemed to stay with the choir. Great job overall for everyone.
