As always, this year band and orchestra grew with people. Ms. Korelc is super enthusiastic about meeting all the new participants. Joe Cali, owner of Kaigan and Gaines, was interviewed along with Ms. Korelc . They had lots of interesting thoughts on which instruments are hardest to learn and teach and what instruments are rented or bought the most.Mr. Cali said the most rented instrument was the violin. Not surprising considering all the violin players at Longfellow. He also said that the flute is the hardest to instrument to teach at the beginning of the year because it is hard to get a perfect sound on the unique mouth piece. There are flute players at Longfellow, but not to many. This is important news for the flute players.
How many district 97 schools rent from Kaigan and Gaines? All of them do, this includes eight elementary schools, two junior highs (middle schools) and one high school. That’s lots and lots of instruments. Out of all the district 97 schools, Longfellow is her favorite.
Band and orchestra is an incredibly fun activity. Third graders should be rally excited to do it next year!
