CARNEGIE HALL!!
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ikyrian...wait, it's going to cost how much?!
SO, our chorale was one of many groups chosen to sing at Carnegie Hall in New York City in June 2009. While it is a great honor to be chosen, I can't help but feel just a bit...gipped.
The chance to go stand in Carnegie Hall and sing for four nights costs $590 NOT including mundane things like a HOTEL, TRANSPORTATION, and FOOD. You know, the essentials. We were told that it would cost on average about $1100 just to stay for the four nights in NYC. Throw on top of that transportation and food, I'm looking at a bill of upwards to $3,000-$3,500 if not more.
Good GOD, isn't there going to be an audience this thing?! How come we have to pay so much just to sing in that building?!
My question for you all is this: should I do it?
That's a hell of a commitment of funds that I may or may not have when the time comes. Even if I started saving now, I have so little disposable income that I don't even know if I would have saved enough to go without maxing out my credit. Also, I'm not planning on being in the area by June 2009. While I'm sure I'd still be able to go if I wasn't apart of the Chorale so long as I paid my own way (I don't believe we would get our music early to start looking at it), I'm not sure I'd want to in a year, you know?
SO, our chorale was one of many groups chosen to sing at Carnegie Hall in New York City in June 2009. While it is a great honor to be chosen, I can't help but feel just a bit...gipped.
The chance to go stand in Carnegie Hall and sing for four nights costs $590 NOT including mundane things like a HOTEL, TRANSPORTATION, and FOOD. You know, the essentials. We were told that it would cost on average about $1100 just to stay for the four nights in NYC. Throw on top of that transportation and food, I'm looking at a bill of upwards to $3,000-$3,500 if not more.
Good GOD, isn't there going to be an audience this thing?! How come we have to pay so much just to sing in that building?!
My question for you all is this: should I do it?
That's a hell of a commitment of funds that I may or may not have when the time comes. Even if I started saving now, I have so little disposable income that I don't even know if I would have saved enough to go without maxing out my credit. Also, I'm not planning on being in the area by June 2009. While I'm sure I'd still be able to go if I wasn't apart of the Chorale so long as I paid my own way (I don't believe we would get our music early to start looking at it), I'm not sure I'd want to in a year, you know?
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