I have performed in large groups, small groups, duos, trios, and alone. I have been in a few plays in community theater. I know what you are talking about. You walk out on stage and feel the music within you and as it pours out you can feel the people around you soak it up, energize it and pour it back. You connect in a visceral way with each person out there. The hall gets still, so still that you believe you are alone in a forest, and the music fills the spaces within and without. And when you finish, you look out at the rapt audience and the silence flows on as they hold on to that feeling. And then they break that silence and the applause is so sweet for you know it isn't for you but for the feeling you have just shared.

This level is hard to find but not impossible. And there are times when it isn't so intense but it is still there. And as far as I know, it never goes away.