Gay Men's Chorus of LA was outstanding
by StageDaddy on 7/23/14Walt Disney Concert Hall - Los AngelesAbsolutely outstanding in every aspect. So professional.
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Absolutely outstanding in every aspect. So professional.
This caps the end to an extraordinary season for GMCLA! I Am Harvey Milk is one of the most important works ever written for the LGBT community! The far that SFMGC brought down 200 singers and then joined by 100 more members from 4 other commissioning choruses is proof of how important is is to them. Our community is blessed to have Andrew Lippa create such a outstanding piece of art! This is a story that needs to be told and never forgotten! HUGE CONGRADULATIONS TO GMCLA ON THEIR 35th ANNIVERSARY! May there be be decades more !
It was an amazing experience. The concert hall is made for incredible sounds and the Chorus exceeded amazing. It was a night of amazing sound.
I couldn't have loved this more than I did. I was running around afterward and thanking chorus members, doing selfies with them. SO, so loved it!
Beautiful and moving concert. Only negative was the female soloist who was not up to the level of the others.
The Gay Men's Chorus did a fantastic job, as usual, and the second half, "I Am Harvey Milk", is ready for Broadway! It has everything: pathos, joy, pride, inspiration, history, hope. A perfect balance of music from the haunting "Was I Wrong?" to the rousing "Friday Night In The Castro" with its disco beat. Really not to be missed, this beautiful, emotional, up lifting musical.
The music soared up to the rafters as the haunting and warm beauty of all-male voices-- sometimes as many as 500 (with the help of more than just a few associated choral friends from throughout the US and Canada)-- filled my senses. The first hour was a potpouri of GMCLA's favorites, many of them poignant, emotional songs about how far the Gay and Lesbian Communities have come in their search to find total acceptance in this modern world that, unfortunately, is still poisoned by so much hatred and bigotry. The second hour was an unstaged operetta of the Life of Harvey Milk, a collage of beautiful songs that totally illustrated through music the conflicts, challenges and courage of one politician and which ends with the strong admonition of not letting the cruelty of the death of Harvey Milk be the death of the Gay Movement and, instead, encouraging those who still are so afraid to come out to come out. The only glitch in the production was the sound system that yielded a blurry, reverberation that unfortunately made many of the very important words unclear or inaudible.