Expression: "Musical extravaganza"

[Tom]

Hi

Could you please tell me how you find the following "invitation" from one of the schools? Is it OK? How is the term stimulating musical extravaganza?

" The Foundation Public School invites you to a stimulating musical extravaganza organized by its students on 09-04-2007."

Tom

PS: Please notice that it is just a singing competetion of the students."

[Yankee]

Hi Tom

What about 'lively' instead of 'stimulating'?

I also wouldn't use hyphens in a date except to indicate a series of consecutive days. In your sentence it would be better to write out the name of the month: 9 April 2007 or April 9, 2007.

Amy

[Alan]

Hi Tom,

I'd put the date first (April 9, 2007) and then maybe: a thrilling musical extravaganza ... bearing in mind that 'thrilling' originally meant drilling holes in you! Oh, and by the way it's competition.

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[Conchita]

The term 'extravaganza' implies something expensive and luxurious. Somehow, I fail to see how a students' singing performance could fit the description.

Or is it just my latin mind playing tricks on me?

Edit: Oh, is that why Alan suggested 'competition' perhaps? In that case, just ignore my post!

[Yankee]

The word 'extravaganza' does imply something elaborate, spectacular or extravagant, but the word is also frequently collocated with 'musical' to refer to a special musical performance. The usage here seems fine to me. And the fact that it's a competition leads me to believe that the students will try to make their performances as spectacular as possible.
http://www.bedfordschool.org.uk/news_detail.asp?news=199

(I think Alan was correcting Tom's spelling of the word 'competition'.)

Amy

[Alan]

The Mr Big for that kind of thing in the UK is Raymond Gubbay - nice moving little story: Raymond's dad phoned up a firm to order something and was asked his surname and of course he said 'Gubbay'. The clerk at the other end said: Oh, is that 'Gubbay' as in 'Raymond'?

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