UTM has a great program of music and art. The professors who teach classes in the Music Department devote their energy and time to students, they work hard every year and they do their best at it.

They are not only teaching all the students in the class, and hope students will pass all classes, but they also do their best to teach students to always become the best they can be at school. One day, students will graduate from UTM. It doesn’t matter wherever they go, they will always be proud of being a UTM student.

Music students have to work hard with their professors to get good grades if they want to be the best at school. Sarah Lemons is one of the these senior Music majors. Lemons chooses Vocal as her major while she is at school. Every student who has a Music major has to go through the step of having a successful personal recital before they graduate. Tonight, it is Sarah’s turn.

Lemons’s recital was divided by the two sections. There were about ten minutes in the intermission time during the recital when the audience was excused to leave the room if they needed to get drinks or do some other things. The door had been closed up the whole time out of respect for Lemons and her pianist Delana Easley. The room, which contained one hundred seats, was completly full, even right before the recital started. I talked with a girl, who was seated next to me. She said that the reason she came was because she enjoys listening to other people’s singing. She has been to listen to many students’ recitals so far. She said that every single recital she went to was very successful. Another student who I talked with, was one of Lemons’s friends. He had been invited to her recital, so he had to come over. He said that Lemons did very well. Everyone was impressed with what a wonderful job she had done in her senior recital. Most of the audience were friends and relatives of Lemons.

Many Music majors were there because they wanted to get some experience. They wanted to know how the recital looked like because they, one day, are going to graduate from UTM. They are going to have their own recital like Lemons did. I think that everyone enjoyed the time to be there. It was very cold outside, but a large number of people showed up on time. Actually, they showed up early before the recital started. A few people walked in to the room a little bit late, and had to stand up against the wall the whole time during the recital because they had no where they could sit down.

Lemons was well-dressed. She looked like a princess when she walked into the room with Delana Easley, who was going to play the piano for Lemons. Lemons picked a few fine pieces of music, which she liked very much, out from Italian songs, French songs, German songs, and English songs as well to be her senior recital pieces. The Vocal major makes it look simple, but it isn’t at all. How does one express feelings like sadness, happiness, and all different kinds of feelings only with the vocal sound? It is very hard to do it. I know that it is hard for me. Lemons didn’t just do it, her recital went well from the beginning through to the end, and her senior recital was very successful. She grew up and she used every talented skill she has learned at UTM during her college career. She is going to do well after she leaves school just like the way she did at her recital on Monday night.

The next senior recital will be performed by Sara McLemore tonight at 7:30 in the Harriet Fulton Theatre.