Elwood Students Foster a Love for Music

Students and their loved ones recently gathered for the second Parent Orchestra Night at James H. Boyd Intermediate School. The event, hosted by music teachers Diana Gotzen-Berg and Karen Gellert, taught the audience basic skills and helped them develop an appreciation for what students have learned in the Elwood String program.

Visitors were instructed on how to hold the instrument and were taught the proper left and right hand bow positions. Students participated by instructing and correcting their family members techniques. By the end of the evening, the group could play three pieces.

Three Elwood-John H. Glenn High School string students, Elizabeth Choi, Emma Mayette and Mina Ban, assisted throughout the event.

“Family members now have a better understanding of what the process is in beginning to play a string instrument and what it’s like as time progresses,” said Ms. Gellert. “This experience can help their student succeed.”

Story by Syntax, Photo courtesy of the Elwood Union Free School District : Elwood students and their family members recently participated in the second Parent Orchestra Night at James H. Boyd Intermediate School.