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Carnegie Hall Welcomes Patients and Siblings with Purple Songs Can Fly

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Channel: Texas Children’s · 2014 · Music

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Texas Children's Cancer Center's patients and siblings involved in the Purple Songs Can Fly program got a rare opportunity to perform a song at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Watch to see what the experience meant to each of them.

Purple Songs Can Fly is a unique program that provides a musical outlet for the many children being treated for cancer and blood disorders. In this program, the children work with founder, Anita Kruse, and other professional composers to write and record their own songs.

Learn more about the Purple Songs Can Fly program at Texas Children's Cancer Center
http://txch.org/arts-in-medicine/purple-songs-can-fly/

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Since 2006 Purple Songs Can Fly has been giving patients a chance to escape.

“Hope is like medicine, it helps you know you will survive,” said Emily Freeman.

“When I was 18 months old I had cancer and my mom and my dad were here to support me. I had to be here for two years,” said Layla Borghese.

“My brother was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in September 2009,” said Morgan Fregia.

“Hope is everything. It is everywhere, in everyone,” said Layla Borghese.

“I felt a little nervous until I saw the nurses and how good they were,” said Rhett Fregia. “I just…I just never felt scared after that.”

“It was really…the highlight of my life,” Zachary Tavlin said, “A lot of the kids will record their song and that is their recorded voice…and they might not make it. and that’s what the family has. I think that gift and to have the gift of that kind of escape… that’s a gift that can’t really be measured."

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