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Intermezzo

A string orchestra for students at the intermediate levels. This orchestra will focus on advanced ensemble skills and a more challenging repertoire with complex rhythms, varied key signatures and major, minor and modal harmonies.   Students must demonstrate by audition: a understanding of note and rhythmic reading, play a 1-2 octave major scale, and understand half-steps and key signatures.  Students should be able to  comfortably  read the notes in 1st position and play accurately in the keys of C, G, D, F and Bb. Violinists aspiring to play in the 1st violin section must be proficient in 3rd position.    All  Students in Intermezzo will be expected to have a beginning vibrato.  (Average grades: 5-8)