Too few ears at concert

As former Mead band parents, it was a thrill to attend Wednesday night’s joint concert with the Mead High School Orchestra and the Spokane Symphony. In addition to the outstanding music, the drama department supplied several articulate students to augment the music with historical backgrounds.

Having frequently listened to the symphony from the Fox Theater balcony didn’t prepare us for the enhanced visual and auditory experience that comes from sitting in close proximity to the orchestra in a small theater. Other than the fact that the high school musicians wore tuxes and the symphony did not, all the performers were equally talented and entertaining. Bravo!

Now the downside. There were way too many empty seats in that small theater. An entire empty row in front of us had been blocked off for school board members. If the talented students in the music and drama departments could collaborate for this grand event, why not have the Mead business students put their education to use by marketing the concert to the neighborhood near the school? The small paragraph in The Spokesman-Review that brought the concert to our attention cannot be considered adequate advertising for such a noteworthy concert.

Penny and Donn Nelson

Spokane