Music to All Our Ears

The Summer Arts Intensive,*

Just in session for a week,

Put on a concert which was both

Amazing and unique.

 

The students, playing instruments

From brass and winds to strings

Or vocals, had the chance to shine

And test their new-found wings.

 

My grandson, one of the trombonists

In the group for jazz,

Performed with lots of confidence

And plenty of pizzazz.

 

Eight various ensembles

Got to show what they could do,

Their joy onstage (and those of the

Instructors) there on view.

 

To hear the music that they made,

With so much drive and skill,

Was proof such opportunity

Provides the means to thrill.

 

For, much as we, the audience,

Felt delight we could not hide,

The faces of the ones on stage

Revealed their hard-won pride.

 

*Held at the Conservatory of Music

at Purchase College of New York