DESERT CHORALE

BY Ed Bruce edbrucevegas@yahoo.com

Boy was this awful....awful for me anyway.

I have never liked groups singing....and with a loud band it' s even worse...that was the case here ! Unless you are the Mills Brothers I don't want more than 1 singer.....54 here with 29 band members in a Memorial Day tribute....it was bad.

Dr Richard McGee running this show, one of my heroes.....he just didn't get it done here.

Sound was awful and a 20 minute abortion-narration was done in the first half....never understood a word.....the whole thing a waste.

This was a patriotic event...all service members stood to be honored....(I didn't stand). Maybe, worst of all, a tribute to Nevada Service members who died in Iraq....this with single lit candles to each name read (or attempted to be read) over the way too loud band. This by Judge Lloyd D George....now here is the deal....if I was going to narrate the names of 50 men who died in Iraq....I would have read the names before and got the pronunciation of their names right ! ! ! ! !

Not many highlites, maybe 1812 overture with the audience poping paper bags to fill in for the cannons.

62 D-.....sorry I don't like groups, sound in the Ham Hall the worst ever and they were late with an intermission.