Tidbit #8 – Music!

We got our first installment of music on Tuesday from composer Kristin Hevner-Wyatt. I wish I had taped the class’s reaction when they heard it for the first time. I didn’t. In lieu of that, here’s my best attempt at a play-by-play:

Song One

• 0:00 – I begin the opening number, without any introduction besides a request for everyone to listen
• 0:15 – Gertrude and Laila look at each other with an are-you-thinking-what-i’m-thinking look
• 0:25 – Eyes light up. A few students whisper ‘this is our opera!’
• 0:45 – Sebastian declares: I’ve got it–it’s the Hobbit!
• 0:50 – More confidant mutterings of “It’s our opera”
• 1:35 – I begin to sing along
• 1:36 – Declarations of “It’s one of the riddles!”
• 1:58 – Declarations of “this is Awesome”
• 2:43 – Song ends. Wild applause

Song Two

• 0:00 – I begin the song that introduces the Mad Candy Hatter, with a request for them to tell me what part of the opera it’s from
• 0:10 – Dawning recognition
• 0:20 – “This has to be the mad candy hatter!”
• 0:28 – “Mad candy hatter. It can’t be anything else.”
• 0:35 – I begin to sing along
• 0:36 – Celebrations all around
• 1:00 – Song ends. Immediate requests to play it again, so we can all sing it. Which we do.