Heritage Children's Choir Festival NYC

Just back from New York City where I spent the weekend with Sandra Snow and the fantastic children's choirs of the Heritage Children's Choir festival, which culminated in a performance at Riverside Church this morning, including my SONG TO END ALL WAR.  Congratulations to all the choirs and their directors for their individual performances on Friday and their massed choir performance today.

It was great to see Al Holcomb of Westminster CC and George Grace for memorable Asian food at Buddakhan (a favorite!), wood fired pizzas and green asparagus salad with Sandra and Scott Sells at Co., and terrific cappuccinos at Gimme Coffee!  Enjoyed an evening stroll on the Highline and a little time in Central Park, both always a pleasant bit of the country in the city.

Also discovered David's Tea, a Canadian company with its first US locations now in New York (a really interesting selection, of which we brought home many samples, including Mango Diablo and Winter Woods) and the Chelsea Market (breads, meats, produce, chocolates, espresso, books, sweets), many merchants under one roof in the funky old National Biscuit Company (NABISCO -- I never knew that!) building.  Yes Oreos first rolled off the production line here!  A final surprise was seeing the space shuttle Enterprise, still atop its NASA 747, in a hangar at JFK, just as we were taxiing for takeoff back to Orlando.