Phoebe Fuerst, News and Features Team Co-Leader
• December 12, 2025
The auditorium lights illuminate the wooden stage as orchestra students move to their sections. The students get seated, adjusting their papers with their stand partners. Before them is a crowd of people...
Inspiration for the arts sparks at a young age. Cultivation for the craft spans for years. A student musician’s life is not easy, nor will it ever be, but the vibrant melodies cultivated are what motivate...
Since 1939, All West has brought students from schools throughout the West Tennessee region together to study and create music. Sandy Nguyen (11), Mandy Cassius (11), and Gino Giorgianni (12) are auditioning...
The COVID-19 pandemic has yielded a number of changes to the average school day, including utilizing Microsoft TEAMS instead of an in-person setting. Teachers and students both have had to adapt to functioning...
For some students, playing an instrument functions as a way to express themselves differently through music. The Memphis Youth Symphony (MYSP) is an organization that many participate in to share their...
How many trumpet players does it take to change a lightbulb? Five. One to handle the bulb and four to tell him how much better they could have done it. See anything wrong with this joke? No, it’s not...
For concerto competition winner Zoe Wolfe, performance is nothing new. After 14 years of playing the violin, it becomes the norm. Still, playing as a soloist is something new entirely.
“I had never...
Select Spartan string musicians had the opportunity to participate in All-City Orchestra, a Shelby County Schools (SCS) wide affair on Oct. 22. Students across the district were chosen to attend the program,...
Justin Kouch, Viewpoint Team Leader
• December 18, 2019
The discord of instruments tuning slowly turned into a melodious harmony, resonating through the White Station auditorium.
On Dec. 9, the Intermediate Orchestra and Advanced Honors Orchestra put on...
Sometimes, four musicians can be more powerful than sixty. This is the case for many string quartet groups, which typically consist of two violins, one viola and one cello, though other combinations are...
Even as Halloween drew near, Spartan musicians had another focus for spooky season—an honors festival at the University of Memphis’s School of Music. Students were allowed to attend after being nominated...
Members of the White Station orchestra rushed to the University of Memphis and watched college students sing, perform and play instruments on Oct. 30.For students Shawn Meng (10) and Ainsley Grant (10),...
