To begin I was very impressed, Christian Sommerhalder seems to be very involved with not only music in general but also the content of this class. The reason I believe this is because he did not just take the minimum requirements, he went above and beyond. He wrote his blog on two youtube videos which were two acts from one play, the play was Rossini’s “the barber of Seville.” “The first act included the barber himself” said Christian, and the second Rosina. Christian proceeds to talk about the correlation between the tempo and the emotions that are expressed by the performers. He seems to think that because both acts have cabaletta arias that it is mostly happy solo’s making the play happy or at least ending with a good out come and I would have to agree. Christian also seems to be very attentive when observing these youtube videos, for example he states the pitches in the performers voice when opening a present that was given to her to show intense moments. All of these examples that I have given you make me wonder if he has perhaps studied music before or maybe studied operas or perhaps is just very much so into operas or he could have just learned a great deal from class?