If I was asked what is the greatest perk of home schooling, I suppose I might be expected to pontificate on the benefits of a customized education; or perhaps quote statistics on the achievements of home schoolers; but honestly, the greatest perk is the field trips! Seriously, we study the fine arts at the Dallas Symphony, Dallas Museum of Art or the Dallas Opera. We study political science at the Sixth Floor Museum or the Bush Library.
Today we attended the student performance Organ Odyssey at the Dallas Symphony. The program featured music written specifically for the organ. The Dallas Symphony's organ has 4,535 pipes and each piece was performed in tandem with over 90 musicians.
A couple of the highlights were Johann Strauss II's Space Odyssey and one of Papageno's songs from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Magic Flute, which we saw last year at the Dallas Opera.
And all the people went up after him, playing pipes and rejoicing greatly, so that the ground shook with the sound. I Kings 1:40
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