LIZZIE CULBERSTON: "It has a versatile sound, first of all. I can do so many things with it. It can be really pretty or it can be really angry."
BARBARA KLEIN: The Student Symphonic Orchestra now has more than thirty members. Sixteen-year-old violinist Nicholas Black joined after he read a story about the group in a local newspaper. He says he likes that the music is more challenging than what he plays with his school orchestra.
NICHOLAS BLACK: "The music here is more complicated and harder, but I think it's partly because it's also with woodwinds and brass, basically with a band. At school we do just strings. We don't have a complete orchestra or anything."
STEVE EMBER:
Thirteen-year-old oboe player Kanika Sahi is the youngest member.
KANIKA SAHI: "They just show me how to be better, different techniques of playing and stuff like that."
Matt Martz leads the orchestra as the conductor. He says having musicians of different ages and abilities is not a problem.
MATT MARTZ: "A player who hasn't been playing for very long, I try to keep them next to the section player, or leader as we call it, that has been playing a while so they can always ask questions say, 'Hey, I don't know what that means.'"
BARBARA KLEIN:
Matt is now in college, studying music education. The orchestra's rehearsals bring him back to his hometown every weekend. He says the orchestra gives him the chance to improve his teaching skills.
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