Most amazing musical experience

[monkeydudexd]

So I performed at alice tully hall today.
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It was probably THE most amazing musical experience EVER. Seriously, I've never heard such a beautiful hall (I've been there once for my friend's julliard pre-college concert). The acoustics were amazing, the whole thing was SO professional, everyone was SO TALENTED. plus, this is the first time i've ever played on like a 9 foot grand piano. i was seriously in total awe and now i want nothing more than to go back.

I'm performing at the Dicapo Opera Theater Concert Hall in june... but i don't think that will really live up to this experience.

I'd like to hear about your most amazing musical experiences

[countrymath]

Never had one

[lunchalpha]

I've never played for crowds, but a few people I know like to stick around and listen to me improvise, which is fun. We have an old honky tonk at our school, slightly out of tune, but it sounds decent and does some softer improvs pretty well; I really wish I could play a true grand though, they're much nicer...

[m1469]

Well, I am so very happy to report that by now, I've had a number of quite extraordinary musical experiences.  Some of them as a performer myself, some of them as a grateful listener.  As a listener, there are some which are amazing because I can relate to them very well and there is something about the experience which fulfills my imagination and/or an emotional need.  

But then there have been entirely new levels of amazement for me in listening to and experiencing those who play what I could not have formerly even imagined or didn't even realize it could ever be like.  These create new questions and entirely new desires for exploration.  I've had a few of those in more intimate settings, but I also had one yesterday while listening to a live performer in a Hall.  Quite wonderful .

[nearenough]

Mine was rushing down to the stage at a Horowitz concert in Rutgers in 1966 for an encore, when he played Rachmaninoff's Etude Tableaux op 39 in D minor (the last one) with me sitting on the floor about 10 feet away.

Blown away!!

[iratior]

I was at a Christmas party last December, and we were getting ready to sing carols from a book, with me accompanying on the piano.  But one of the guests complained that the pitch of the carols was consistently too high for most of those in attendance.  So on the spot, I transposed all the carols down a minor third.  I could do it because I'd memorized all of them;  i have to admit I can't transpose and sightread at the same time, like Marcel Dupre.