Violinists tune their strings and cellists rosin their bows.
Bassists adjust the height of their instruments and violists practice swift arpeggios.
With a raise of his arms, new band director Kurt Lucas silences the deafening racket, and in one swooping motion, commences the day s session with a c-scale. Only Violinists tune their strings and cellists rosin their bows. Bassists adjust the height of their instruments and violists practice swift arpeggios. With a raise of his arms, new band director Kurt Lucas silences the deafening racket, and in one swooping motion, commences the day s session with a c-scale. The eighth period class is a catalog of new beginnings, as new teacher Kurt Lucas, replacing retired band director Raymond Harry, conducts Montgomery Blair s first-ever symphonic orchestra.