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[quote=Anonymous]Like most parochial schools, ours offers an orchestra program. The school has a contract with a company that offers orchestra programs to a number of Catholic and other private schools around here. The instructor somehow teaches *all* of the instruments. The company's CEO has videos in which he demonstrates how to play all of the instruments, and as a musician myself I'm extremely unimpressed. The company also has videos of end-of-the-year concerts their students have done, and the repertoire is too challenging and the quality of the playing is horrible.

So am I upset at the school for not offering a professional-level orchestra program? Not at all. I'm glad there's an option for kids who want to try music. I do not plan to waste the $500 to enroll my children in the orchestra program, and they will go to private lessons with a competent instructor when they are ready, and eventually likely do youth orchestra. There's just no other way to get good at music. While I would love a school that dedicates a lot of time to training excellent classical musicians, such a school does not exist around here. If we can identify a couple other kids in the program who are doing private lessons I may try to organize a school string quartet eventually and see whether I can get my volunteer hours from coaching the quartet. [/quote]

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