Where else in the world, besides Albuquerque, can you attend a performance of Mozart’s Grand Mass in C Minor K. 427, then go to the Frontier, sit under the eye of The King, look at a collection of Indian rugs on the ceiling, and get a photograph of the guard in a gunfight with The Duke? The Grand Mass in C Minor was performed by the UNM Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Jorge Pérez-Gómez, and the UNM University Chorus, Professor Bradley Ellingboe, director, with guest Conductor Jena Reis. The soloists where soprano Leslie Umphrey, Associate Professor of Voice, UNM, mezzo soprano Drea Pressley, Sam Shepperson, co-director of the Opera Theater at UNM and baritone Michael Hix, Assistant Professor of Vocal Studies at UNM. The concert was excellent, although one woman at the end of the row in front of us brought her baby. I don’t know what she was thinking bringing a baby to a classical concert. About half way through the concert the baby got fussy, and the woman took her sweet time taking the noisy kid out of the theater. The people around her were nervously laughing at its squawks and cries, while the soprano gave her “mad dogs” for the little brat competing with her solo. She finally took leave, allowing us to enjoy the concert and the soprano to relax a little before her next solo.
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Sounds like a great time was to be had except for the lady and her baby… some people. I know how on stage it can be daunting when someone distracts you like that. People can just be so narcissistic.
The baby didn’t bother me so much, it was easy enough to block out. It’s when everyone around us started reacting to the baby that it became distracting and an annoyance.
Right. I get that.
When we attended the King Tut exhibit in Seattle last week there was a family with an 18 mo. old and a 4 yr. old. Both the kids ran around and generally disrupted things. There was Egytian-type music in the background which these kids made noise over. My thought is that the price of tickets for babies and toddlers should be double the price. And the Tut exhibit tickets were $30.00 each. I can’t imagine that the parents got a thing out of the exhibit. As usual your pictures are great–love the one of Laur.
And when the kids get old enough to be interested in things like King Tut, their parents will tell the kids “We took them to a King Tut exhibit in Seattle, in 2012. Remember?”
You and Mama missed the cell phone going off. Someone’s stupid phone RANG. ugh.
I thought it was the baby passing gas!