Samples from Sam

Yesterday I went to an opera performed at a local school. This was an entertaining performance from the singers on stage in their outfits and the song selections were in Italian, as operas tend to be, which included two of the scores composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and what great performances they were. It was really impressive on how one of the female singers was able to maintain a conversation while singing and reaching with those falsettos and the really high lingering "ahhhh" portions of the music with a vibrato. As a musician, I appreciated the performance from the pianist and her timing with the singers on stage. Each note was rather comedic and combined elegance as the cast did their best to tell a story whilst speaking and singing in Italian. Truly, a culturally impressive performance and I would have thought the singers were Italian if not for the fact that some were Irish-American, African-American, and one of them was a Filipina-American. The Filipina singer wa...

  Going to Little Italy in Baltimore is always a treat, especially for those who enjoy the cultural events that happen. With my friends, we went to a little restaurant for a sort of Bingo night and trivia about Italian culture. I loved the little dessert catering that the host had brought over and though it was annoying trying to find decent parking, I was able to enjoy the rest of the evening. One of my friends almost won Bingo but this elderly gentleman had won. It seemed that he and his wife were working together to win the game, which they did. I did not get to see much of the trivia since the group wanted to find the next event to go to and it wasn't at all bad to end on. For the trivia parts I was able to hear, these were all in Italian anyway so that was not much I could do but see the room to see if everyone was able to understand or speak Italian. This was a fun night and I would love to attend another one of these cultural events again. I can appreciate how there is such ...