How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. And when the coronavirus cancels the performance you’ve been practicing for? Take it outside.
A group of Oregon students decided they were going to perform Monday (March 16) in New York City, even if it wasn’t quite where they had originally planned.The young musicians from the Alliance Charter Academy in Oregon City, Oregon, got word their planned Carnegie Hall performance had been canceled just before they were scheduled to leave.
Some of them decided to come anyway, and took their stringed instruments to Times Square, playing for the few hardy souls still out and about.“It’s a good message to keep going and to teach kids to persist even when your dreams are crushed,” said Anna Mersereau, 41,.
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