Carnegie Hall Concert Report
About two weeks after the 2013 All-State concert, juniors Mitch Dekutoski and Julianna Norby received letters from the Honors Performance Series at Carnegie Hall inviting them to audition for their program
“It looked like a rare opportunity for me, so I decided to audition. I sent in a recording of a solo I sang for solo contest that year and waited six months before I found out I got selected for it,” Dekutoski said.
This audition was no small deal; only a select number make it as finalists. “The 500 finalists flew in from all around the country and the world to New York City, which is where we would perform in Carnegie Hall,” Dekutoski said.
He was amazed the moment he stepped inside Carnegie Hall. “When we first walked into the auditorium, …show more content…
But in his downtime, he had time to do some sightseeing too. “We got to see a Broadway show. I saw Phantom of the Opera. We went to the top of the Rockefeller Center, and after the concert, we celebrated on a yacht that toured New York Harbor, so we got to see the Statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn Bridge.”
Dekutoski and Norby performed six pieces in Carnegie Hall: “The Creation” by Willy Richter, “Still wie die Nacht (Calm as the Night)” by Karl Bohm, “Anthem for Spring” from Cavalleria Rusticana, “You are the Music” by Dan Forrest, “Shenandoah/He’s Gone Away” by Mark Hayes and “This Little Light of Mine” also by Mark Hayes.
Dekutoski said the experience was packed with pleasurable surprises. “I didn’t know about the yacht until they sent out the itinerary with all the music and other information, but when I heard about it, I was so pumped. So after the concert, we got to see our parents and go out to dinner and get out of our concert attire,so after that, we boarded some buses that took us to a pier, and we got boarded on the yacht. There was a dance floor, four different decks, food and drinks, blaring music and it wasn’t too cold to go outside for a while. It was so
“It looked like a rare opportunity for me, so I decided to audition. I sent in a recording of a solo I sang for solo contest that year and waited six months before I found out I got selected for it,” Dekutoski said.
This audition was no small deal; only a select number make it as finalists. “The 500 finalists flew in from all around the country and the world to New York City, which is where we would perform in Carnegie Hall,” Dekutoski said.
He was amazed the moment he stepped inside Carnegie Hall. “When we first walked into the auditorium, …show more content…
But in his downtime, he had time to do some sightseeing too. “We got to see a Broadway show. I saw Phantom of the Opera. We went to the top of the Rockefeller Center, and after the concert, we celebrated on a yacht that toured New York Harbor, so we got to see the Statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn Bridge.”
Dekutoski and Norby performed six pieces in Carnegie Hall: “The Creation” by Willy Richter, “Still wie die Nacht (Calm as the Night)” by Karl Bohm, “Anthem for Spring” from Cavalleria Rusticana, “You are the Music” by Dan Forrest, “Shenandoah/He’s Gone Away” by Mark Hayes and “This Little Light of Mine” also by Mark Hayes.
Dekutoski said the experience was packed with pleasurable surprises. “I didn’t know about the yacht until they sent out the itinerary with all the music and other information, but when I heard about it, I was so pumped. So after the concert, we got to see our parents and go out to dinner and get out of our concert attire,so after that, we boarded some buses that took us to a pier, and we got boarded on the yacht. There was a dance floor, four different decks, food and drinks, blaring music and it wasn’t too cold to go outside for a while. It was so