Getting ready for the Korea trip

[originally published in my Music & Inspiration blog, June 23, 2009]

As many of you know, Sejong Korean American Cultural Empowerment, Inc. has invited me to travel with them to Korea this summer. I am grateful to the Bergen County Korean Parents Association and the forty-seven Northern Valley-Old Tappan families who donated funds to underwrite my trip. It will be an exciting and important expedition, that is for sure.

Our itinerary includes an opportunity for me to conduct a boys’ school orchestra, in addition to many sight-seeing adventures. I will use this blog to update my trip during my travels, July 10-22, 2009. I will send more specific itinerary details to my students who are expecting to be studying in Korea this summer, in the hopes that we might be able to meet while I am there.

In the meantime, thank you again for this opportunity, and I look forward to using this blog to document my journey.