The Opening Reception

I have a lot of mixed feelings about how the opening reception went.  I am quite happy with the musical performance. Vox Fidelis delivered beautifully dispite all of the background noise.  I couldn't hear the cantors or the main choir from where I was because of it.  We ended up doing just fine, but all of the comotion around us made it so very difficult.  there were two types of audience members: people who were completely engulfed by it and people who blatently ignored everything and tried to talk over it.  Those were the people that were mostly by me in the corner of the gallery.  At the time, it felt as though no one was listening at all.  But once we had finished, I was able to see just how many people were packed into the main gallery, all listening.  There was probably close to 200 people in there.  I've been told that it sounded wonderful and that it was a powerful performance.  Even though my experience was the exact opposite of that, I've been assured that it ended coming off how I hoped it would.   I was very upset to see that many of my very own classmates were some of the main culperates of the epic background noise.  I'm disappointed that they didn't give it any time or attention.  However,  I was very touched by all my classmates who did listen!  I was so happy to finally be able to share it with everyone.