Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Thirteen-year-old Leland Ko among performers to represent the future of classical music.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Editor's note: Edited information from Pro Arte. A 13-year-old cellist from Weston will be among the young performers representing the future of classical music at an upcoming Boston performance. On March 4, Leland Ko will perform “Back to the Future: The Next Generation Plays the Classics” with the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, along with other winners of the orchestra’s annual concerto competition, Ilana Zaks, and Matthew Woodard. Ko started studying music at the age of three. He is currently a student of Ron Lowry at Rivers School Conservatory in Weston. Last summer he was admitted to the Perlman Music Program on Shelter Island, N.Y. and studied with Ron Leonard. More recently, he studied with Paul Katz at The Perlman Music …
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Student-written play to be entered in state drama competition opens at WHS March 1 and 2.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Editor's note: Story written and contributed by Weston High School student Meredith Braunstein. How does the fantasy world of Dungeons & Dragons parallel the reality of young friends coping with tragedy? Weston High Theater Company’s student-written play Rules of the Game demonstrates how close they can be. Rules of the Game is the annual student-written one-act play that will be entered in the Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild Festival. The plot centers on a group of graduate student roommates coping with the discovery of an online suicide note by one their friends. Characters are involved in the game Dungeons & Dragons, as well as computer hacking, both of which have a key role in what the friends discover about the death of their …
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Fourth annual "Jazz Under the Stars" brings together Weston schools, community.
Editor's note: All photographs contributed by Kenneth S. Barron. Monday was a clear night on which the stars were shining brightly, and none more so than those in Weston Town Hall. About 150 residents of all ages turned out to watch and hear “Jazz Under the Stars,” a growing tradition that brings together four school jazz groups—the Weston Middle School jazz band, two Weston High School jazz bands, and the high school jazz choir—for an evening heralded by performers and audience members as a unique way to come together. Weston High School jazz director Patrick Dandrea said some 100 students from both schools practice several times every week in preparation for the event, which he called “one of our favorite nights of the year.” “It’s not a…
Friday, January 20, 2012
WHS senior Matt Atkins's photo selected as a winner from 1,850 works submitted.
A Weston High School student has placed third in a high school photography competition that draws from hundreds of students from around the country. Last month, WHS senior Matthew Atkins and junior Alexandra (Alex) Burgess submitted photographs to the annual Drexel University High School Photography Contest, which received some 1,850 images of which 140 were chosen for exhibition. Last week, Atkins was notified that his photo had placed third overall, news he said he was “really happy” to receive. Atkins’s winning photo, one of three he submitted to the contest, is of a wine glass on a chair, a light-drenched image he said “just sort of happened.” “I was looking at the way the light was hitting a chair and just decided to see how a wine …
