FUHSD students fuze a melting pot of talent at the IDC Talent Show
Two hours of everything from blaring music to yoyo twirling — the IDC Talent Show on Feb. 5 at Fremont High School presented 17 acts from all four FUHSD schools.
The caliber of the show was much better than anything that MVHS alone could have put on. Two of the three acts that MVHS students performed were acoustic guitars. Both were very well performed, but why couldn’t we have chosen something that was more original than singing? The MVHS Bhangra team danced its usual routine, but failed to receive its usual level of enthusiasm from a crowd full of Cupertino High School students.
To keep it short, the rapping and the acoustic guitars failed to impress despite how well they were performed. The audience went into intermission eagerly talking about Lynbrook High School student junior John Chow’s yo-yo and contact juggling act than of the music and rapping.
Also, the break-dancing and lyrical dancing from Fremont High School and Cupertino High School kept the audience in awe, with the choreography highlighting each performer’s jumps and freezes.
Meanwhile Cupertino High School’s "Synthesis", dressed in a uniform black shirt and black pants, put a new twist on classical instruments with a seamlessly arranged medley of mainstream songs that they had played at "Tinostock." Cupertino High Schools’s music festival, on Jan. 29. Mainstream songs, despite how overplayed they are, have the advantage that nearly everyone knows the lyrics. So as "Synthesis" played, the audience added the lyrics for them.
Another act that received a large positive response was a "Blue Man Group" -esque group that performed an innovating act of drumming on "trash" such as cardboard boxes and glass bottles. By the end of the show, Fremont High School’s "Street Symphony" had ripped their cardboard boxes in quite a few places and was met with an overflow of cheers.
Other noteworthy performers were Homestead High School’s Blake Murray who played a 12-string guitar by slapping it and Alex Salazar’s medley of more mainstream music.
In the end, Cupertino high School’s "Synthesis" placed first, Fremont High School "Street Symphony" placed second, and Lynbrook High School’s John Chow placed third.
Overall, the audience exited the auditorium satisfied with the show. The little melting-pot Cupertino had a medley of talent.
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FUHSD students fuze a melting pot of talent at the IDC Talent Show
