If you have an opportunity, please try to squeeze in some time to get to Lincoln for tonight's concert program by the Band and Choir programs. It begins at 6:30 p.m. and I don't know the situation on refreshments available there, but you won't be able to partake in alcohol or tobacco on school grounds. You could make sure that you eat something before coming on over tonight. If you think you might want to leave early, try sitting near an exit so you can slip out comfortably without too much notice, taking that tip from the playbook of Mayor Tony, who issued that direction to his aides (and there's 93 on his staff) to set up his appearances that way.
I don't expect you to need that exit option, and live performances, even where there's those unexpected problems, still are much more entertaining experiences for an audience than any recorded "perfect" performance we would all like to make if we played.
Since the last year's opening of the auditiorium as the Ethel Percy Andrus Theater, there have been several performances presented there. Still seeming to me to not be fully set up was the lighting, with the performers and speakers often entering the "dark" zone where there normally would be in one or more spotlights. It makes for some tough existing-light photography when that happens. I see from schedules that there has been lots of time on rehearsals from all areas to make this week's concerts happen, and look forward to more changes.
I haven't seen the actual program listings, being outside of the operations, but if learning from experience helps, there might be a little more introduction of each performance before the curtains open on each segment. That was a bit of a missing element in last year's musical performance. I would like to have been clued in to what was coming up, maybe a little description of the song or performers or even a quick culture moment, just to get the most from what's presented, maybe even to know what to look or listen for, too.
It's a high school situation and it's all about learning situations, so perfection here is not expected, perfection being a subjective matter to some extent anyway. And let us not forget, that a lot of the fun is in the learning by participation in what area you fit into.
Please take this opportunity to visit Lincoln tonight for these performances, to visit for the Thursday night concert, too.
Please, be aware. Watch street parking restrictions before 6 p.m. -and I don't know restrictions were changed to a later hour by the City Council's money-grubbing moves for issuing more tickets and more expensive meter rates- and that's simply the truth of it. (Talk to CM Ed Reyes if you need the official city "explanations," and if you don't mind a big helping of baloney served up.)
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