It was different!! The choir was dispersed throughout the audience. Unfortunately not much effort was made to seat the sopranos, tenors, baritones, etc together. The only person up front was the conductor. There were about 10 times the audience rose to sing in unison. The soloists were outstanding though. Taos has many professionally trained voices and the concert was beautiful. There were a few times that is sounded a bit bad in the back of the audience. I often wondered if it was a pleasant experience for the conductor, trying to keep the audience somewhat together!