Cloudburst Review

For the fall choir concert, I had the fortune to listen the the Tennessee Tech Chorale. They were the best of the best when it came to singing. I saw on the program that they were going to sing Cloudburst by Eric Whitacre. Now, Eric Whitacre is my favorite composer, so at first I was ashamed. I didn't think that they could pull off this incredible hard work of music. But then they came on the stage. From the very beginning, they had a presence about them. They walked onto that stage like they were destined to sing in front of us at that very moment, and they were going to blow us away. They knew it, and thus the audience knew something great was about to happen. They started singing the song, and my heart just melted. People in the auditorium didn't know what was really going on because they were singing in spanish. The words wrapped around me and music soothed me as I listened to them do a wonderful job. But then, my favorite part of the song came up. It was the part when the storm comes and washes away all of the problems of the world and the world is born anew with a cloudburst. They turned off the lights in the auditorium and the they would flash on lights randomly to show lightning. They had percussionist play a bass drum, thunder sheet and some wind chimes to make it sound like the rain and thunder. The chorus would randomly snap their fingers as if the rain was falling on the sidewalk. It was the best song of the concert by far. They were just amazing when they sang. Their postures were great, you could see them relaxed, but confident when they sang. They kept their chests high, and their heads not so high. They just stood there and you knew they knew what they were doing. There was no fear in their eyes, and they looked like professionals (and sang like them too). All in all, I was simply blown away by our choir on that day.