Reflections on the BloomBars benefit concert for Duke Ellington
Theatre Department  Greetings Bloom Community,  My name is Sam
Sherman and I am a 9th grader at Duke Ellington School of the
Arts. Recently, BloomBars hosted a benefit concert for our
Theatre Department. I not only attended the benefit but was a
part of the main act. In it I performed three monologues and
three readings from a variety of playwrights, poets, and public
speakers, from William Inge, to Maya Angelou, to Martin Luther
King Jr. Each performance was responded to through a piece of
music. Credit for the job of creating a “dialogue” is to be
given to the The Columbia Players and Boat Burning, two
incredible musical groups who used their music to respond to
each piece through both improvisation and composed works.  The
benefit was a success (Hurrah)! We raised a few hundred dollars
and the audience enjoyed the show. As always, I was a little
nervous when I first went on, but the tension eventually eased
up. Something that was really cool f