Last night, the Bass (pronounced like the fish) concert hall opened it's doors for the first time after a multi million dollar renovation. The renovation is quite wonderful and well worth the money. They invited several people to help with this opening. Samuel Ramey was among them. He and Frederica Von Stada, who I find to be an excellent soprano that I have also listened to for years, sang back to back songs and a couple of duets. He is definitely older and his hair is grayer but he still has enormous vocal strength and stage presence. Frederica was just as entertaining but I have not formed a close fan connection that I have with Sam. Maybe after last night I will do so.
The whole evening was nice and they wanted to have elements of all types of music so they asked "Ghostland Observatory" to sing. I have never heard of them but apparently they are rather famous. It was interesting that all of the sudden I was sitting in a rock concert. I don't mind rock concerts but I can't take the loudness of them so I just moved to the beat in my seat and held my fingers over my ears. I heard the singer much clearer that way. He was yelling something like "the band played on" and the marching band came out and started playing. It was totally appropriate because that hall actually has had rock concerts in the past.
I was so star struck last night. I really could not stop smiling the whole time that Sam and Frederica were on stage. What a wonderful night and a wonderful memory to last me a life time.
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It was a lot of fun working with Sam and Frederica! They were so... funny :-)
I was definitely blown away by Sam's voice, though. My stand partner was like, "We ain't gonna cover him up... that bitch is loud!"
I didn't stay for Ghostland, though. I have grad school auditions next weekend, so I needed to go practice.
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