Voices: Ardenne High Alumni Choir concert

There I stand, before the Alumni Chorus, my first attempt at conducting A full first half...I shall now give wing to my immense exhaustion...

Ardenne Homecoming 2012

Well, it would seem there's no end to this year's artistic opportunities... Just having been relieved of the University Singer's concert season run, I am presented with the opportunity to conduct The Ardenne High School Alumni Choir at this year's Homecoming concert. It was with immense fear I had accepted, and I approached the appointment with more than a little apprehension, after all, I would not only be dealing with singers my own age, in fact the bulk of the choir will be singers who predate me by several decades! nevertheless, with some coaxing from Hanief, I stand before the choir, built on voices that shaped my choral existence and those which weathered high school with me... it was looking to be an awesome experience...Til' I actually got before them, and was greeted with the true difficulty of being at the helm of a ship whose crew may not exactly be "enthused" at your appointment, and unappreciative of your manner... I speak quickly when flustered, and I generally have a faulty brain to mouth connect when it comes to work to be done- I. Am.A. Stickler...bad combination...will keep you posted as it unfolds...

Of Concerts and Operas...UWI Singer's Concert Season 2012

Promo Poster for this year's concert Season
(Me extreme right as gentleman and below my wineglass as a "thug")

so...the summer is off to a pretty much bleak start, but there are little windows of hope/joy...sorta, lol... So this year, The University Singers of the University of the West Indies Mona Campus (you guessed it, im in this choir), is staging our concert under the banner of events commemorating the Jamaica 50th anniversary of independence. this year, a first for the choir, we attempt/present an Opera on the Morant Bay Rebellion titled "1865" written by our choirmaster, Mr Franklyn Halliburton. in the performance of this, I understudy two roles: 1; the spirit who opens with a dance, wielding a calabash as dramatic turns to the four corners of the stage to invoke the presence of the ancestral spirits, which I share with a good friend and fellow tenor in the choir J. Chambers, and the role of a gentleman of the gentry, who warns the Custos Rotulorum of the arrival of the disgruntled peasantry at the Courthouse, which I alternate with another tenor vocalist, O'Rain Thomas. I am proud to say I was apart of this process and presentatio of the work. I enjoy my roles and I enjoy the audiences reception of the undertaking, some nights bowled over by the standing ovation we receive. first CDT's Ballet and now an Opera...I am looking to see what else this season in life has in store for me...
Yours in the Arts (:-p)
Carl-Anthony

Me (Right) as terrified Gentleman, O Thomas as Custos and
Ms D. Nelson as a terrified but vindicated Lady of the gentry