Bonnie's Recital

The Amazing Vocal Recital of Bonnie Johnston The audience waited hushed and expectantly, for the versatile opera singer Bonnie Johnston to emerge. You could feel the excitement rippling through the audience. Then one person spotted her as she came onto stage and began to clap. Soon the entire assembly erupted into a roaring applause. Bonnie made her way over to the piano and prepared to sing, prepared to share that translucent voice. A hush once again settled over the crowd, the silence was even more intense now that she was on stage. She looked up and the piano began. Gazing into the audience, and then appealing to us through her music, her clear, transparent voice cut through the members of the audience like a knife. They were not prepared for the intensity with which she sang. The crowd was deeply stirred as they listened to the selection. "What?", they asked themselves, "is life worth living for without the joy of such an incredible sound?"

As the piece came to a close, several paramedics, who had been on call for the evening rushed in to carry out victims who thought they had died and gone to heaven. The piano played its last chords and there was a moment of silence. The audience then let a breath that they did not know they had been holding, and suddenly burst into wild applause. The rest of the evening proceeded in a similar fashion. There were always those throughout that reached their limit of enduring such pure sounds that the paramedics would carry out and revive.

The Paramedics have been trained to handle these situations and have been exposed to Bonnie¡¦s incredible voice slowly over time that they may assist those who have never had such an uplifting experience. One person I interviewed said that she had not been the same since she heard Bonnie sing thirty years ago. Since Bonnie was quite young then (or rather, not yet born) you can see the effect high-level music has on most uneducated people.

Those that did the best throughout the concert were those that went to school with Bonnie and have been hearing her sing from the early days.

Our society has gone downhill if people cannot listen to pure expressive singing without going into shock. What is this world coming to??? ( Sorry, I know I shouldn¡¦t have ended with a preposition, but you get the idea.)

Written by the Modulator, Ushering in the Keys of change.