I saw it!
It was terrific.
And Renee’s advice to the young vocalists was very similar to what went through my head as I listened to them sing.
That was SO validating to me...I felt honored!
Thanks for the tip. I will probably watch it again.
When the young tenor sang “It Ain’t Necessarily So”, I flashed back to a concert at Woodland Hills Park in L.A. in 1996. The opera program at USC put on a show with their young singers with full orchestra. One young Korean sang that Gershwin number. Because that number requires a chorus and there was none available, he turned the audience into a chorus and rehearsed us in the call-and-response and scat singing. You have to know your hoodie-ah-da-wa-da from your scatty-wah. I hadn’t had that much fun in years.