Tonight we had our third performance of the trip, a concert at the Eugene O Neill theatre at the Centro Cultural Costarricense Nacional. There were many school-aged kids in the audience, including a guy in the front row who found it necessary to listen to his iPod and laugh during the course of the concert. But distractions aside, the concert was awesome. It was a delight to perform in a center like this one and to see so many people enjoying our music! One fan named Geno particularly enjoyed our concert, saying that we should go "from the north pole to the south pole, from Japan to here (meaning Costa Rica) and everywhere in between."
Another amazing experience we had today is that during our tour of the Costa Rican Assembly, we were asked to sing in a certain rotunda-like area of the building. We sang Amazing Grace and Duo Seraphim, and it was so moving to see people come out of their offices to see where the music was coming from and then stay and watch in wonderment. It was such a unique and powerful experience that the tour moms started getting choked up, which in turn made me choke up (oops). Seeing our music produce such strong emotions in people made me step outside of myself and the routine of just singing through Duo Seraphim and made me actually listen to how beautiful we sounded, and it was just heartbreakingly wonderful.
Heres to an exhausting but great day in San Jose,
Colleen
P.S. Sorry for the lack of apostrophes, I havent quite figured out how to use a Spanish language keyboard yet...
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