Piece Comment

Review of Arizona


The piece starts off with a lot of information about Arizona and then a song about Arizona starts. The information about Arizona ends well before the song does and leaves me wondering, why do I have to listen to this woman sing this song? If this was supposed to be a piece featuring a woman singing a song about Arizona, why did it start off as if I was going to learn a lot about Arizona? And if this is indeed a piece to educate me about Arizona, why do I have to listen to this woman sing this overly long song? Okay, at the very end of the piece I find out that this is a state songbook radio piece. That information would have been helpful at the beginning of the piece because then I could have just changed the channel right away.