Arts Music

The AES Music Program was robust in every division, with several concerts engaging entire elementary school grades, and others engaging students from two divisions, such as the cross-divisional strings performances. Overall, the program engaged nearly all of the elementary school students, more than 100 middle school students, and many specialized high school musicians including 20 in the Music National Honor Society. Music groups from all divisions made us proud in a variety of public performances from International Day to assemblies, from Fall Fiesta to our middle school’s Crossing the Bridge ceremony.

The year was full of performances—starting from the short Atrium performance all the way to the nal strings concert and graduation. Since then, I have met and established so many bonds with people I would have never had the chance to talk with thanks to music.

I liked it because some of us in Beginning Strings got to play with all the higher levels in Iditarod.

I loved it when we would do Fort Frenzy inside the class because it would give us a little challenge.

I like feeling successful without having to use any spoken language

A year of lots of practicing. Coming from a school where the Strings classes were not so frequent or advanced. had to learn a lot in a short time in AES strings but am happy I did because I enjoy playing the violin and that is because practice and have a history with it.