Choctaws Meet the Met Opera is a complex art form, not everyone can be a singer. Many other jobs are integral to opera production. Other components include costumes, sets, orchestra, ballet, conductors and accompanists.
Many people work behind the scenes to make opera possible.
Foster has served as chorus accompanist and rehearsal accompanist for several years, and Sanders will take the baton as chorus master from Dr. Shaw, who retired from his duties with MOA this year after an eight-year term. When I came to MOA in 1989, I had not done a lot of opera. When I was a student at MC in the late 1950's, many music majors were active in the Baptist Student Union. The BSU gave us the opportunity to go on mission trips. You never knew when you showed up at a church or revival if you would have to sing a solo, play the piano or lead the choir.