"Practice, Practice, Practice"
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gerisullivanIt's certainly the best known way to get to Carnegie Hall, but it's not the only one. I had the pleasure of learning that on Sunday of last year's Boskone when Susan (who shares ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fredcritter's last name) mentioned a way I'd never considered before: I could follow their daughter Gavi there.
Tonight's the night!benyalow and I will be in the audience watching and listening as Gavi sings with her school choir on the fabled stage.
When I was a sophomore in high school, I rode with 42 other sophomores and juniors on a bus from Michigan to Gettysburg, DC, and New York. A brave history teacher organized and led the spring break trip each year. Graduating classes numbered 400+, which gives you an idea of the select group I was in.
Being in a select group may be the only similarity between Gavi's and my trips. We ate at Horn & Hardart's cafeteria, and walked along Broadway. I remember being shocked to see even the marquee for M*A*S*H -- all I knew about it was that it was a dirty movie. Ah, yup, small town girl.
Gavi flew to New York. Rather than seeing a movie marquee, she went to a Broadway play. Outings to Natural History and the Met are perhaps more standard student-trip fare, but the daily rehearsals in New York and tonight's performance at Carnegie Hall are a privilege fewer students enjoy. Though far more than I would have expected -- there are 10 choirs participating in tonight's concert, and this is just one of 16 concerts in this year's MidAmerica Productions' schedule. They've apparently been doing it for years;tr_renner sang there with her choir when she was in high school.
It's a neat opportunity, and one I'm looking forward to seeing and hearing in person. I've missed a lot of school plays and all of Gavi's fencing meets thanks to my moving east before she graduated (Susan told me I oughtn't move until Gavi went off to college and I appreciate everything we've all done to keep the connection firm in the intervening 5 years). Tonight, thanks to that same move, I get to be there.
Carnegie Hall, here I come!
fredcritter's last name) mentioned a way I'd never considered before: I could follow their daughter Gavi there.Tonight's the night!
benyalow and I will be in the audience watching and listening as Gavi sings with her school choir on the fabled stage.When I was a sophomore in high school, I rode with 42 other sophomores and juniors on a bus from Michigan to Gettysburg, DC, and New York. A brave history teacher organized and led the spring break trip each year. Graduating classes numbered 400+, which gives you an idea of the select group I was in.
Being in a select group may be the only similarity between Gavi's and my trips. We ate at Horn & Hardart's cafeteria, and walked along Broadway. I remember being shocked to see even the marquee for M*A*S*H -- all I knew about it was that it was a dirty movie. Ah, yup, small town girl.
Gavi flew to New York. Rather than seeing a movie marquee, she went to a Broadway play. Outings to Natural History and the Met are perhaps more standard student-trip fare, but the daily rehearsals in New York and tonight's performance at Carnegie Hall are a privilege fewer students enjoy. Though far more than I would have expected -- there are 10 choirs participating in tonight's concert, and this is just one of 16 concerts in this year's MidAmerica Productions' schedule. They've apparently been doing it for years;
tr_renner sang there with her choir when she was in high school.It's a neat opportunity, and one I'm looking forward to seeing and hearing in person. I've missed a lot of school plays and all of Gavi's fencing meets thanks to my moving east before she graduated (Susan told me I oughtn't move until Gavi went off to college and I appreciate everything we've all done to keep the connection firm in the intervening 5 years). Tonight, thanks to that same move, I get to be there.
Carnegie Hall, here I come!
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Date: 2009-03-15 03:53 pm (UTC)I've only gotten as far as Carnegie Halls...in the Pittsburgh area... ;->
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Date: 2009-03-15 05:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-16 12:01 am (UTC)I really wish I could have gone, and been able to sing with a chorus in a 1400 year old cathederal. Even though the Rumanian government prohibited all religious songs and we did show tunes instead. But still, it would have been way cool.
My older brother and sister, who were in that same chorus a few years before I was, performed in Symphony Hall.
Unfortunately, when I got there, the chorus director was losing his clout in the school system, and couldn't get the funding for trips and things that he used to be able to get. He was quietly retired a year or two after I escaped high school. I've always wondered what the real story was.