The students in SJHS’s Orchestra II class had an opportunity to perform a concert with the BYU New Horizons Orchestra on Thursday, March 27. The concert was held in the Springville High School auditorium at 7:30pm.
The New Horizons Orchestra is a group made up of adults who just recently started to learn how to play their instruments. This orchestra is for people who want to learn a string instrument and never got a chance to do it when they were younger. The group is mostly made up of elderly members who just started playing sometime in the past two years.
The Orchestra II class played their songs first, then the New Horizons members played a few numbers, and then they both got on stage and played together. During the combined portion, each Orchestra II student sat with a member of the New Horizons group, and they got to meet each other and experience playing next to someone new.
Both the students in the Orchestra II class and the members of the New Horizons Orchestra had a great experience performing together. Maria Ramirez, an eighth grade cello player, said that it was her favorite part of the concert. “They were nice, and it was an honor to perform with them,” she said.
“My favorite part of the concert was sitting next to the New Horizons people,” said Maren Cooper, a viola player in Orchestra II. “I enjoyed it a lot. It was fun to hear older people play their instruments at the same level as us.”