An Introduction to Instruments

The Georgetown (Texas) Independent School District  each year encourages the district’s 5th graders to take part in instrument fairs, where kids who’ll be entering one of the three middle schools next school year get a chance to participate in band and/or orchestra.  At these sessions, children give the instruments a “test drive.”   As a former band and orchestra kid myself (mostly clarinet, sometimes tenor sax), I like that schools, even with cuts in funding everywhere, are continuing to get young minds thinking about the arts.   These photos, taken for the Williamson County Sun, were recorded at Benold Middle School this week.   It was fun to watch 11-year-old Isaiha Davis, a McCoy Elementary 5th grader, try out the French horn as his 5-year-old nephew, Ladarious Morrison-Johnson, took in every move!    Keep pushing the arts in schools.   Not that math and science aren’t important, but minds form in many different ways.