With a performance this past Wednesday at the Jewish Federation, the Symphony Orchestra is preparing for Jazz ISSMA, which is one of the requirements for the Orchestra All State award. Not received since 2003, Miss Levacy Quinn, orchestra director, decided to make reaching all the requirements a priority this year.
“We’re going on a couple performances, and I love going on little Munster vacation trips,” Olivia Doolin, sophomore said. “There are a few people in the orchestra who sound really good on their instruments, so I’m really excited to see what they do with it.”
Miss Quinn has chosen blues and jazz rock for their two jazz music categories.
“We have two pieces we’re performing, Rando in Blue by Robert Longfield and Red Rhythmico by Kurt Moser,” Miss Quinn said.
“We’ve already performed one of the pieces for our December concert, so we’ll be ready by March.”
Jazz ISSMA opens up the orchestra to more variety, but Olivia says that people who aren’t in the orchestra should also open up to classical music.
“I think people should definitely look into it,” Olivia said. “It has a great aspect of history, emotions and there’s just a lot involved in music that I think people can appreciate and relate to.”
