Provide a variety of performance opportunities. Cultivate excellence in performance. Develop greater interest in music and performance among a broad base of area youth. Specific goals include unison playing and bowing, intonation and pitch adjustment, beginning independent sections, and musical elements. Cadenza Strings explores advanced instruction of musical elements, technique and ensemble performance.
Emphasis is placed on individual competence necessary for more difficult music.
The Symphony Orchestra explores the full range of music literature, expanding members knowledge of composers and literature in this advanced study. Complexity of tuning and tone color is enhanced with the inclusion of winds and percussion.