Concert Day

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Today we had our dress rehearsal in Carnegie Hall.  The Hall was spectacular!  After the dress rehearsal I felt that my experience was complete and that I could go home.  But things got better!  My Mom, Dad, and Grandmother had a chance to come see my concert!  Because I go to school far from home, they never get to see my performances so it was a really touching moment to have my loved ones there to see me at the height of my success.  I had made it.  I had made it to Carnegie Hall!  It was so wonderful.  I loved the feeling of connection to everyone on the stage and making an impact on everyone in the audience.  I love being pulled into the music making process and taken for a ride into the realm of imagination.  It was so powerful!  I actually cried at the end of Elsa's Procession (Wagner).  It was spectacular!!!!

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After the performance we all piled onto the Spirit of New Jersey and had a fantastic cruise in the Harbor.

I feel so empowered by traveling to NYC and doing what I wanted to do and performing with such fantastic musicians.

In the morning I marched myself to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and saw as much as I could before my train left for home.  It was so neat to see so much art and history.  It was also a neat experience to find myself having the self-confidence and skills to travel on my own and decide to tour the majority of a museum.  I didn't even think about being alone until I was eating lunch and realized I didn't have to find a table for more than just me!  Haha.

The entire experience was fantastic!  I feel so empowered by traveling to NYC and doing what I wanted to do and performing with such fantastic musicians.  It was amazing!  I will remember it forever :0,