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Originally Posted by ree-Xi
I wanted to see more singing. They focused a lot on the particular kids, which I understand is important because Gareth believes that music is what's missing in today's schools. I think (for the first batch anyway, the kids who went to China) he was just trying to prove to himself that he could get them there. I mean, they really were hard to listen to.
I understand that most of them had never sung a note in their lives before. Perhaps if I saw more of their training, that would have been more fulfilling for me.
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I can understand that. The first performance at RAH last night was of
Ombra mai fù, and it was also a bit hard to listen to. I'd agree that if I was looking for marvelous music performance-wise, this wouldn't be where I would look.
Perhaps it's the influence of my particular GLO affiliation (
), but it was the training and the focus on the kids that grabbed me. (And I'll admit that I'm a bit of a sucker and the kid with Hodgkins who can't play sports and who finally found a group at school where he fit in and felt pride particularly grabbed me.)
For me the focus was less on making fantastic music and more on opening the kids to new possibilities and encouraging them to make music
together, which results in its own kind of "fantastic" music. I enjoyed (mostly) seeing/hearing them make music, but I really enjoyed watching the music have an effect on them. That's the story to me.