HEAR WHAT YOUNG MUSICIANS HAVE TO SAY AT SUMMER STRINGS! JUNIOR ORCHESTRA CONCERT
By Elizabeth Winchester
As a professional musician for 30 years and former public school orchestra teacher, Matthew Schneider loves the diversity of music styles that he gets to play, from rock to jazz to classical and country. Now the 26 elementary school kids enrolled in Schneider’s SummerStrings! Junior Orchestra will appreciate that variety too. On August 6 at 6 p.m. the student ensemble, conducted by Schneider and accompanied by other adult musicians, will perform three pieces at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Sea Cliff—the Beatles’ classic “Eleanor Rigby,” Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger,” and a country song called “Fiddles on Fire,” during which kids will improvise solos. “It is not enough for kids to read notes,” says Schneider, who also teaches private music lessons at his studio throughout the year. “I want them to tell a story with their music!” Join Schneider and his students at the August 6 concert to hear what they have to “say.” |