lost sheet music after rehearsal downtown Charleston.
Description
On Friday at 7:12 PM, after a rehearsal at the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, I fumbled in my backpack and realized my sheet music was missing. The pages were for my upcoming performance, a set of classical pieces with a few scribbled fingerings in the margins. I remember leaving the rehearsal room near Capitol Street and stepping out into the chilly downtown air, then crossing toward the Town Center plaza. I must have dropped it somewhere along the way between the glass doors and the street musicians who often gather outside the market. It’s irreplaceable to me because a lot of the markings are mine and the binder is worn from years of use.
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