Students participate in Eastmark High’s first orchestra night
Posted 3/4/22
Elementary students in the northern region of the Queen Creek Unified School District attended the first sixth-grade Orchestra Festival at Eastmark High School on Friday, Feb. 25.
According to a …
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Students participate in Eastmark High’s first orchestra night
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Elementary students in the northern region of the Queen Creek Unified School District attended the first sixth-grade Orchestra Festival at Eastmark High School on Friday, Feb. 25.
According to a release, the festival started with team-building activities and games before rehearsal for the main performance later on. Some of the activities included listening and responding, following the tempo, and learning the structure of different instruments in the orchestra.
"[Eastmark Orchestra Director Volker Moulding] taught us how to follow the conductor. We learned how to play his tempo. We also learned what his hand movements mean," said Gateway Polytechnic Academy student, Makaela Naylor. "The Eastmark High students were wonderful, too. They were making sure that we were all involved in the activities like the scavenger hunt and the get-to-know-you game. I think that it was very impactful to have people that understand what they're doing and know their way around the school."
The visiting students also had a unique opportunity to work with EHS orchestra students. Ninth grader Lillian Aing said the experience was fun as she passed on her own skills to the other students.
"I was able to help by keeping the students on pace and knowing the fingerings for each string to even teaching them to have a fun time around each other and new people, creating great memories!" Aing said.
While some of the elementary students may choose not to continue with orchestra when they enroll in Eastmark High, one of the main purposes of this festival was to help them feel welcomed to a different place.
"This festival will give us an opportunity to ease our incoming orchestra students into new and higher expectations in a fun and inviting way," Moulding said.
Layla Deleon from Silver Valley Elementary expressed how performing at EHS helped prepare for the next school year.
"I feel performing at EHS helped me feel ready because I know what the EHS orchestra teachers want and expect from me as a student and what he doesn’t want to see from his students," Deleon said.
The performance was held that same day in the EHS's gym with 100 students performing.
