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Student and middle-school orchestra teacher urge Somerville Board to establish full orchestra program
Summary
A seventh-grade student and the Branchburg/BCMS orchestra teacher asked the board to create a curricular orchestra at Somerville High School and expand string programming to keep students in district music education.
A middle-school violinist and the orchestra teacher for several feeder schools urged the Somerville Board of Education Thursday to establish a full orchestra program at Somerville High School and to consider a part-time strings instructor at the secondary level.
Seventh-grader Nicholas Eugene Nelbaro, who said he attends Branchburg Central Middle School and lives in Branchburg, told the board he has played orchestra since fifth grade and asked the district to provide a daily, for-credit orchestra class at the high school rather than only an after-school club. "Playing the cello…
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