Bakersfield High Orchestra at the Harvey - By N.L. Belardes
I happened to be hanging out by the Harvey Auditorium, chewing on some Bazooka bubble gum when I heard the most beautiful violins... Even the leaves on nearby trees upturned themselves for the moment and leaned toward such delicate sounds...
OK, so I meant to attend. I think these students were incredible. For only having three weeks to prepare; for having three movements cut from one of their pieces; for only performing two times all year... It leaves a melancholy place in my heart that such talent doesn't perform four or five times during the school year. Call it my love for the orchestra. I can't help but want more. I can remember back to a moment watching the Tevis orchestra years ago. They were performing an orchestration of the Beatles "Eleanor Rigby." It was a beautiful song, so well prepared, so masterfully orchestrated... and there I was last night, years later, and still finding myself falling into that dream moment when bows run across strings for the evening's first movement...
But then, I can't help but to feel such music...
OK, so I meant to attend. I think these students were incredible. For only having three weeks to prepare; for having three movements cut from one of their pieces; for only performing two times all year... It leaves a melancholy place in my heart that such talent doesn't perform four or five times during the school year. Call it my love for the orchestra. I can't help but want more. I can remember back to a moment watching the Tevis orchestra years ago. They were performing an orchestration of the Beatles "Eleanor Rigby." It was a beautiful song, so well prepared, so masterfully orchestrated... and there I was last night, years later, and still finding myself falling into that dream moment when bows run across strings for the evening's first movement...
But then, I can't help but to feel such music...
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Friday, May 27, 2005.
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