Welcoming fresh faces
By Lois Choe
The Timber Creek High School Orchestra has picked new officers for the 25-26 school
year.
Becoming a Timber Creek Orchestra Officer can be a big load of responsibility. Ranging
from helping students tune squeaky instruments to trying to keep students quiet from
becoming too loud during concerts, it can be challenging. However, thanks to the
welcoming environment, students are happy and optimistic to have this responsibility.
“Being an officer is really fun and enjoyable,” freshman Remasha Jayasundara said. “I
love how nice everyone is.” The current officers all comment about their positive
experience about being a new member of the Timber Creek Orchestra officers. “It’s a
really fun experience, it’s fun to have an instrument to play and learn,” Jayasundara
said. “Everyone’s so nice too.”
Students are met with noises of different instruments when they walk into the Orchestra
classroom. It could be the resonating sounds of the cello, or the rich melodies of the
violin.
The officers had gone through an application process, in which they were interviewed
with upper class officers. “The application process was actually really simple,” freshman
Mia Harris said. “They just asked basic questions and all you need to do is not to be
nervous.”
As officers, they may have different roles to do. In the freshman’s case, they’re supposed to help out teachers with different tasks. “As an officer, we.. well, regulate people,” Harris, 9th grade says. “If
people are talking [during concerts], which happens a lot, we’d probably tell them to quiet down.” Jayasundara replied by saying she generally expected to have fun and to be able to help out with activities.
Currently, Harris and Jayasundara are officers as “a member at large”. Them and 3 others provide ideas to the other older officers and are not a specific role. However, they all have expressed contentment and enthusiasm about their role.
The next Timber Creek Orchestra concert is on April 29th, and is their spring concert.
Photo by: Lois Choe