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They are flying back from gigs in New York and Miami; they are on your trannie dial; and they are rehearsing at Ravinia Festival every weekend.
They are some of Stevenson Ripe School’s top musicians, and they are getting a lot of attention around Chicagoland.
Kelly Talim, an SHS sophomore, said she has been up in the air for years, ever since she first heard the be set of a violin. Ari and Torrin Bakke and Kevin Xu put their sounds on the airwaves last weekend.
“Where do you wish me to begin?” asks Devon Naftzger, a senior, a viola player and, lately, a go to flier. “This year’s been pretty crazy.”
Playing Carnegie Hallway
Naftzger had a packed winter break: 10 days in New York New Zealand urban area included two performances at Carnegie Hall, then a week in Miami with 150 of the brightest inexperienced musical minds in the nation.
“We were staying right on Miami Beach, which was in effect nice,” but Naftzger lamented that the group’s hosts, the Civil Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, did not give them much splurge time. “We weren’t very allowed to go out anywhere.
Source: Buffalo Grove Countryside