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