Grade: 12

Tools: Pencil to sketch out initial piece. Oil pastels and acrylic paints for AP concentration. “I like the vibrant looks acrylics get when I’m finished with them.”

AP Studio Art Concentration: “Through each piece I try to highlight animal qualities in people. Because we’re different species, but we share similar qualities. In each piece, I’m putting an animal head on a human body. The one I’m working on right now is a bull’s head on a business man’s body and he’s holding money.”

Future: “I want to major in fine arts or graphic design. I’m not totally sure about which school I want to go to, but art is something that I love and I’m very passionate about it. I plan on doing art even if I’m homeless; it’s what I want to do and what I plan to do. Even if I don’t have a lot of money, art is what gets me through most days, and that happiness is more important than money.”

Inspiration: “This sounds weird, but I get a lot of inspiration from Lady Gaga. Those who know me know that I’m Lady Gaga obsessed. She inspires me to do my own thing and that’s what draws me to her. When I first found out about her, I thought she was weird and she almost made me uncomfortable, which was interesting and daring. I try to do that with my art. I want to make people uncomfortable so it leaves an impression. That’s what people remember. It may not be accepted, but I’m fascinated by weird things.”

Grade: 9

Tools: camera, pencils, acrylic paint. “I’ll work with whatever I’m given.”

Benefit of Different Media: “I like doing different projects with different mediums because there are different ways to do different styles. I like the diversity and how it turns out in the end.”

Began: “Probably when I could first start writing because my dad would always encourage me to get involved and do little projects. He still has some of my projects from when I was three.”

Inspiration: “My dad. People have always told me they love my dad’s artwork and I see it everywhere I go. I’ve always been inspired to be artistic like him.”

Grade: 12

When He Began: “Probably when I was about five. It was a way for me to connect with my mom.”

Favorite Meal To Cook: Braised chicken with homemade gnocchi (an Italian potato pasta), roasted root vegetables, braising jus, and shaved parmesan (This recipe will be featured in the Kansas City Star on January 18th).

Advice: “You need to have a persisting passion. You need to be patient, optimistic, but you need to be able to persevere. You need to be patient, but you need to have a sense of urgency as well. Don’t do it unless you love it.”

Future: “I plan to go to school in North or South Carolina and work for, hopefully, either Chef Tom Condron of The Liberty of Charlotte  or Chef Graham Daley of Peninsula Grill of Charleston.”

Chicken and Gnocchi (Serves 6)

For the Spice Sachet:

6 peppercorns

4 sprigs fresh thyme

2 bay leaves

5 stems fresh parsley

For the chicken:

1 tablespoon unsalted butter

2 1/2 tablespoons olive oil

10 chicken thighs

5 cloves garlic, minced

1 shallot, minced

1/2 medium onion, minced

1 1/4 cups white cooking wine

2 cups chicken stock

For the gnocchi:

2 tablespoons olive oil, divided

1 1/2 pounds russet potatoes

2 tablespoons kosher salt, divided

3 egg yolks

2 tablespoons goat cheese

2 tablespoons freshly grated Parmesan cheese

2 tablespoons fresh basil, cut into a chiffonade

1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

1 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 cups bread flour

3/4 cup cake flour

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Assemble the spice sachet by placing peppercorns, thyme, bay leaves and parsley into the center of a 6-inch square of cheesecloth. Draw up each end of the square, keeping all spices in the center, and tie ends together with a piece of cotton twine to create a bundle. Set aside.
3. To braise the chicken: Into an oven-safe cast iron Dutch oven, melt butter and olive oil together over high heat.
4. Place chicken thighs, skin side down, in pot for 2 minutes, or until skin turns golden brown. Flip chicken and allow it to cook on other side. After 1 minute, turn heat down to medium, and add garlic, shallot and onion and sauté until translucent.
5. Pour in white wine, reduce heat to medium and allow liquid to reduce to about ½ cup.
6. Pour in stock and add spice sachet.
7. When liquid comes to a boil, remove from stovetop, cover pan tightly with lid and place into oven.
8. Braise chicken for 2 hours, or until it is falling off the bone. Allow mixture to cool before deboning chicken. Reserve all thigh meat and strain all pan juices for later use. Place chicken pieces and pan juices into separate containers and place in refrigerator.
9. To make the gnocchi: while chicken is braising, spread 1 tablespoon olive oil onto a large baking sheet. Add potatoes to baking sheet, covering with oil and seasoning with 1 tablespoon kosher salt. Place in oven to roast for 55 minutes.
10. Into a medium mixing bowl, stir egg yolks, goat and Parmesan cheeses, basil, pepper and 1 teaspoon salt together. Set aside.
11. When potatoes are fork tender, remove from oven, cut in half length-wise and allow to cool.
12. Add 8 cups water to a clean Dutch oven, season with reserved 1 tablespoon salt and bring to a boil over medium-high heat.
13. Press cooled potatoes through a ricer and place into a separate large mixing bowl. Make a well in the center of riced potatoes.
14. Add egg yolk / cheese mixture into the center of the potatoes. Stir until ingredients are just incorporated.
15. Add bread and cake flours to mixture. Fold mixture together by hand, without kneading. Gently work mixture until a soft dough forms. Do not over mix.
16. Onto a lightly floured surface, gently roll dough out into a log that is ¾-inch wide. Using a sharp knife, cut dough log into ¾-inch pieces.
17. Grease a clean baking sheet with reserved 1 tablespoon olive oil. Set aside.
18. Place 12 pieces of cut dough into boiling water. When dough pieces float to the top of the pot, turn heat off and allow boiled gnocchi to sit for 30-45 seconds in the water. Carefully scoop gnocchi out using a fine mesh sieve and place onto prepared baking sheet.
19. Repeat process until all dough is used and gnocchi are cooked. Place tray of gnocchi into refrigerator.

To serve: Skim the fat off of cooled, reserved pan juices and place into a large sauté pan. Melt fat over high heat and add gnocchi to the pan. Sauté until gnocchi become caramel colored. Add in reserved chicken and braising liquid and heat through.

Dish can be garnished with additional salt and pepper, butter and shaved Parmesan cheese, if desired.

Note: Hendry prefers Montrachet, French goat’s milk cheese. He may also add ½ cup sautéed Enoki mushrooms, ½ cup fresh peas and 3 roasted carrots, cut into a 1-inch dice, when heating chicken and braising liquid.

Per serving: 569 calories (38 percent from fat), 22 grams total fat (6 grams saturated), 162 milligrams cholesterol, 58 grams carbohydrates, 24 grams protein, 2,376 milligrams sodium, 2 grams dietary fiber.

Chocolate Chip Carrot Cake

1 1/2 Cups of Flour

3/4 Cup of Sugar

1/2 Cup of Brown Sugar

1 1/4 Tsp of Cinnamon

1/2 Tsp of Salt

Beat Together:

3 Eggs

3/4 Cup of Oil

1 1/2 tsp of Vanilla

Gradually mix into dry mixture

Stir in:

2 Cups of Grated Carrots

2 Cups of Chocolate Chips

1/2 Cup of Walnuts

Pour into greased and floured 13×9 pan and bake at 350 for 35-40 minutes

Frosting:

3 Oz of Cream Cheese

1/4 Cup of Margarine

2 Cups of Powdered Sugar

1 Tsp of Vanilla

Grade: 12

Training: “I am mostly self-taught and beyond that I have only taken a few school classes.”

Inspired by: “Art reflects my emotion and what I personally am feeling. It’s not influenced by a particular artist, more the world around me.”

Future Plans: “I would love to continue with photography. I currently have a 365 going and I would like to either do another one next year or maybe a 52 [similar to a 365 but once a week]. I would also like to take some classes in college.”

A little about the pieces:   The leaves that form a boat is one of Leyann’s favorite pieces, entitled the “Maple SS”.  ”I like my pieces to focus more on simplicity and not flamboyance. It has a deeper meaning to me than what most see when they look at it.” The big bowl with a leaf pattern is also of significance to the artist. She feels that it symbolizes the first time she was recognized as an artist, when she and other classmates toured the Missouri River and put together an art gallery.

Grade: 11

Tools: Big Time Rush spiral notebook and pencil

When She Started: “I started as a freshmen as a sort of stress reliever. It was just a nice thing to do at home if I had a free minute.”

Inspired By: E.E.Cummings, T.S.Eliot

Favorite Genre: Big Time Rush fan fiction

Polly’s Poems:

1. 
dried gum sticks to the heel of
my boot
air so thick it can sit
on top of me
and so filled with cigarette smoke
that i can’t breathe
my bag is tucked safely under my arm
and away from thieves
now i’m lost
but it doesn’t matter
because i love the city

2.
i wish i could say no regrets
but then i would be a liar
lying hasn’t stopped me before
but it’s hard to keep a secret from yourself
i regret wasted time and gas
i regret my 4 year old self’s taste
i regret my chronic tardiness
i regret staying awake past 10
i regret tears and runny noses
but more than anything
i regret you
my one wish is that i could be my own best friend
maybe, maybe then
i could say no regrets

3.
Missing You
For hours you sit on your shelf
Waiting so that I may be by myself
That is the moment that you pounce
You have a hope that I may renounce
Woe is me!
For I made a bet against thee
Forever you sit and grow old
While I will begin to grow cold
Without your warmth around me
I am merely a lone tree
When I say what long was unspoken
You have rusted and broken
Dear popcorn machine!
I cannot survive without you
And your after school snack

4.
why is it that when the written word
is still a thought
it’s merely a thought?
a notion in the mind
is just as beautiful
as a sonnet on the paper
the whirring of the brain
can only lead to
the scratching of pencil and paper
the two are more intertwined
than ying and yang
more related than
identical twins
so why must the written word
trump that of a thought?

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“The students learned all about the ecology of the river, the history of the river, its importance to Kansas City and to the local and national environment,” Finkelston said. “Then they turned all that information into artwork. We went to scrapyards under the bridges and learned about pollution and everything that Missouri River Relief deals with.”

The teachers of the East art department last year were faced with the task of selecting students that they felt would truly appreciate the trip.

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Because it was a small group, around fifteen students, the students felt extremely privileged to be among the few chosen.

“I was really surprised. I never expected to get selected for this because I am not a big art person,” says now senior Leyann Dahlgren. “I don’t think I am all that good so I was really excited and I think I kinda stepped up to the plate and had to improve a lot to make pieces for this.”

The artists selected covered a wide range of mediums. The works produced varied from photographs, to graphic design to even sculpture-like pieces.

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Students approached what they saw on the river from many different viewpoints. While some, like Long, chose to focus on the combining of nature and human interference, others saw the pollution in a more negative light.

“We had to try to raise up money for the river because its just so dirty right now,” said senior Jennifer Huran. “There’s just trash everywhere and there’s no one on the water.”

A semester later, with the help and generosity of Studio B Art Gallery, the students finally put their work on display. As visitors passed through, many were amazed by the quality of work that was produced.

Sam Rider, a senior at East, remarked that he, “didn’t know there were artists my age at East that were this good.”

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“I’m really, really happy. The kids did an incredible job and there’s a lot of great work and it’s selling pretty well,” Finkelston said during the showing. “I hope the kids had a great experience. I mean its certainly been great for me.”

Day One – Nov. 29

Day Two – Nov. 30

Day Three – Dec. 1

Part 1

Part 2

Grade: 12

Instruments:  Martin Acoustic Guitar, Fender Stratocaster, Boss Looping Pedal (RC20XL Phrase Recorder), Also plays piano and sings in the SME Chambers Choir

When did he start:  Christmas of freshman year

Who Inspires Him: Andy Mckee

Future Plans: ”I would love to study music in general in college to a certain extent. I don’t plan on majoring in it, but I enjoy music enough that I would want to keep taking guitar lessons or music theory.”

What makes him unique: “I really enjoy a lot of different styles, for example Andy McKee is a guitarist who uses a lot of finger style which I’ve been experimenting with. At the same time, I am in the pit for Bye Bye Birdie playing jazz chords on an electric guitar and enjoy that just as much.”

Four boys, all in separate places, connected together by one thing: a song on the radio. The boys, more well known by their band’s name, Local Talk, listened to their track ”Electrocution,” on Alice 102 at 6 o’clock on Tuesday, Oct. 25. Local Talk, which consists of four male juniors, Max Braasch, Ian Harmon, Thomas Petrie and Gardner Grantham, have always been brought together by their music.

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Local Talk has come a long way from the basement they started out playing in. In their year and a half of being together, the band has performed at events and venues in the community and recorded their debut album “Local Talk EP.”

Last year, they slaved away at an original album that they shared with their family and friends. Recently, one of the hosts of Alice 102 got a hold of the album and wanted to broadcast one of the songs. He called Grantham and asked him questions about their background and told them that Local Talk was going to be on the radio. This was the first time their song was played on a popular radio station at a prime time.

“I was so glad that our music finally went somewhere even if nothing came from it,” Grantham said.

The band was started by Harmon, Grantham and Braasch. Harmon and Grantham were starting to get involved with music and guitar lessons. They were playing around one day and had the idea of starting a band. They knew their friend Braasch played the drums so they talked it over and the idea was an overall success. The boys discussed with their friends that played instruments and after a long list of members, Local Talk had finally landed on their final four: Grantham, Harmon, Braasch and Thomas Petrie.

Ever since the band started, Harmon, Grantham and Braasch have been the only steady members. Petrie was added about a year and a half ago and Braasch believes this is the most cohesive group that Local Talk has been through.

“I think we all understand music equally, so we know what sounds good and what sounds bad,” Grantham said, “and we are all very accepting to new ideas of how to play something or write something.”

Watch Local Talk’s first place performance at last year’s Bunch of Bands competition.

Their understanding of each others’ music taste came from similar musical backgrounds. Harmon’s father was in a band, which gave him the desire to learn an instrument. Harmon started out playing the trombone; however, he believed that this instrument was not going to get him anywhere because he “felt too restricted.” He wanted to write his own music and be able to sing. In sixth grade, he decided to begin guitar lessons. He never had to be told to practice because he loved it so much, and did not get the chance to sing seriously until he joined choir at school, where he was able to experiment with professional music.

“I don’t want to be too cheesy, “ Harmon said, “but the reason I find music so intriguing is that it has been around for a long time and I think it is cool to know that you can shut the outside world off and play a piece of music written 500 years ago.”

For Braasch, this was not the first band he was ever a part of. In 2004, he started playing the drums and this was been the only real instrument that he has ever played. In elementary school, he was in a band that was basically run by the parents instead of the members. Braasch was not great friends with the members so he did not enjoy the experience. He gets along with the members of Local Talk so well that he enjoys going to practice and they are able to get all of their songs and rhythms done within a decent amount of time.

“The thing [about music] that intrigues me the most is that it is totally made by you and interpreted by you” Braasch said. “When writing a song you have total control over the music and that is pretty cool to do. There is so much music I listen to that there I always something new, which keeps it fresh and exciting.”

Petrie agrees that when he plays or listens to a song that he is feeling, everything stops and he is in his own world for those few minutes. Petrie believes that his musical taste comes form his family because his mother was a great musician. This led him to try playing a lot of instruments as a child before finding one he enjoyed: he started with violin and clarinet in elementary school, but was not inspired until seventh grade when he began taking guitar lessons.

“After taking lessons for a while, I played an acoustic version of “Read My Mind” by the Killers with my guitar teacher,” Petrie said. “I realized music was going to be one of the most important things in my life.”

Like Braasch, Grantham’s father listens to classic rock types of music, inspiring Gardner to do the same. The boys all share this musical taste and understand music equally, a key factor in the group’s ability to succeed. They have known each other since elementary school so they’re aware of how to act around one another in order to get work done.

“We all know what sounds good and what sounds bad,” Grantham says. “We are all very accepting to new ideas how to play something or write something.”

As of now, Local Talk performs at private parties and events through the school and community. They played at a basketball tournament at East, First Fridays at the Crossroads in downtown KC and runs like the Dragon Dash and Trolley Run. Their favorite event was at this year’s Bunch of Bands competition at East because the whole crowd was into the performance and they were pumped up. They tied for first place at the competition, which is just another step forward for this local band.

The band has been recording their second album over the past couple weeks. All of their songs are original and a collaborative effort within the group. One of them may come up with a beat or verse and they all bounce ideas off of each other. According to Petrie, none of them are afraid to correct each other or share their opinions. They believe it is constructive criticism and they are able to improve from each others’ input.

The group is unsure about their future and are just “going with the flow,” according to Harmon. Local Talk is considered a fun thing to do for the members and they are wanting to work hard this upcoming album. They are planning on spending more focus this time around on recording and producing a really well thought out album.

“I want to keep playing with these guys for as long as possible” Braasch said. “Obviously with college creeping up we may be separated from one another but nothing is for sure.”

Watch Local Talk at last year’s Coalition Love 146 concert.

Grade: 12

Tools: Graphite, acrylic paints, sketch book

Favorite Type of Drawing: “I love drawing people and interactions. Especially couples or other pairs of people. The paintings [see below] are part of a narrative of my cousins growing up as they move towards the awkward middle school years.”

Began Drawing: ”I’ve always liked to draw. I took basic art freshman year. This was the first year where I really began taking it seriously with AP art and drawing classes.”

Future Plans: Classes in college. Possibly a minor.

Grade: 12

Groups: Vocalocity, Vocalicious

Artist She Looks Up To: Jazmine Sullivan

Singing Since: “The womb”

Other Instruments She Plays: “I can play the kazoo. And I feel like I would be really good at percussion. Because it looks easy. No offense to drumline or anything. I just want to play the rainstick or something.”

Favorite Song to Sing: “In the Beginning” from Children of Eden

Future Plans: “I definitely want to continue with music in the future. I think managing a youth theatre group would be fantastic.”

Song She Has Chosen To Sing: “Summertime” from Porgy and Bess

Grade: 12

How She Started: “I started when I moved here from California in 6th grade. My friend gave me a notebook and I began writing in it because it was the one solid thing in life amid so many changes. I didn’t start taking writing seriously until high school though.”

Tools: Blue pen, spiral notebooks, sharpies and highlighters for the titles

What She Writes: “I strive to write pieces that make people think. I want to force them to think about it once they’ve finished a piece. I really like writing for shock value.”

Inspired By: “I don’t get my inspiration from other writers, more from circumstances in my life.”

Future Plans: Majoring in Screenwriting in college

For You
You gave me an evident truth,
And oh, how I hope it is.
My lack of acknowledgment is sickening;
My gleeful bliss
To just be near you.
You give me more,
And like the confused child I am,
I look right past it.
Forever in regret.

Concerning Tattoos, Cigarettes, And Conformity
Sometimes it’s just easier to bury your head in the sand
Or cover your skin in stories
Or fill your mouth with smoke
And just be
Leave your courage where you found it and don’t bother looking for it again
It won’t be there
Endless days of counting and waiting make for a sad life
But a life, nonetheless
The running, the laughing, the chaos
Someday it will stop
It has to stop
A light goes off
And that’s when you know
You never begin once your end
You have one chance t tell a story with your skin
And then destroy it with the smoke

90s Music and Expo Markers
expo
expo
expo
weirdo
I’m a creep,
I’m a weirdo
Radiohead
Kurt Cobain is dead
the 90s are back
attack
angry birds
purple words
half the page
new age
green and sage
on my nails
my painted nails
Nine Inch Nails
nine
eight
Se7en
Kevin Spacey
S-E-Seven-E-N
cops and rain
rain and cops
both are blue
what to do?
with a lo-
ser like Beck
Hanson
MmmBop
teen pop
album drop
back in the game
sounds the same
no one to blame
but U
2
who wrote One
plus six is S-E-Seven-E-N
seven
plus 83
is the 90s
they’re back
did I mention that?
Seattle grunge
boy bands
alternative
Red Hot Chili Peppers
red peppers
red
expo

Grade: 11

Medium: Greeting Cards

Tools: Scrapbook materials, different paper styles, stickers, jewelry

What makes her unique: Sells homemade greeting cards to local art galleries and book stores.

Where does she sell the greeting cards: Commission from Art Galleries such as Olive Branch Art

Why she does what she does: “I make greeting cards because I don’t have to think about it, I can just do it, not like school where you have to focus and think about what you are doing.”

The theater department has worked to make sense of this convoluted classic and–more importantly–find the humor in it. Director Brian Cappello, East theater and English teacher, has made it his goal to take this Shakespearean classic and make it accessible to modern audiences.

“I don’t want the cast to be caught up in the idea of doing Shakespeare with a capital S,” Cappello said.

Cappello and fellow theater teacher Tom DeFeo have tried to make this adaptation much easier to follow by removing the more obscure, flowery Elizabethan references therefore cutting the three hour show down to less than two hours.

“Part of our problem with doing something like Shakespeare is that it’s an uphill battle for students,” Cappello said. “They know that in school it’s, ‘We’re going to read it, we have to dissect every line, there’s going to be a quiz, we’re going to watch a movie, and then we’re going to write a paper.’”

Cappello believes that Shakespeare wrote to be enjoyed by theater-goers, not just analyzed by English students. According to Cappello, the comedy in the show is universal and relatable to modern audiences.

Understanding the script, however, has been the first step for cast-members like junior Jessie Burnes, who plays Puck, a woodland sprite. Burnes had to take extra time to analyze her lines and motives by studying the script at home.

“You have to understand what you’re saying before you even try to figure out how to say it,” Burnes said. “We’ve done a great job of trying to portray this in a way that anyone can understand.”

Burnes too is confident that the audience will see parallels between the show and modern situations: the great King and Queen of the Fairies, played by senior Grant Kendall and junior Kim Hoedel, bicker like any modern couple and the lovers fall in and out of love more abruptly than modern teenagers.

Playing one of the four lovers, Lysander, junior Max Duncan doesn’t let the script’s antiquated language stand in the way of having fun with the characters and situations.

“I think [the audience will] loosen up and realize that it’s a comedy,” Duncan said. “It’s OK to laugh even though it’s Shakespeare.”

Duncan says that the exaggerated nonverbal signals make the show similar to modern comedies. In the show, the beautiful Fairy Queen is in love with a donkey man and characters groan, sigh, giggle and grunt their emotions.

“Having huge body movements and being really ‘big’ is universal in comedy,” Duncan said. “Just the body language is enough to entertain the audience and have them understand what we’re talking about.”

Student Director and senior Spencer Davis believes that not being intimidated by the playwright has made the performance more enjoyable.

“We’ve worked a lot on modernizing the dialogue and the emotions,” Davis said. “When you think of Shakespeare, you often think of big, bombastic soliloquies and monologues and speeches which you don’t really understand and aren’t very exciting to watch. We’re trying to find a human element of Shakespeare–the part that’s really fun to be a part of.”

Technical nuances help to bring that excitement to the performance. The set involves a slanted trampoline, forestry backdrops and 29 platforms, allowing actors to bounce, run and stand at different heights on the stage. Lights, sound and other effects are in sync with the action: fog and foreboding sound effects accompany Oberon’s entrances while whimsical chimes accompany Titania’s.

Each actor is further characterized by costume and makeup. Blush or silver hair spray and wrinkles define age while royal dress or dirt and stubble define status of the Athenian courtiers and handymen.

Oberon, King of the Fairies, and his minions’ appearances are reminiscent of the rock band KISS: black leather, fangs and red and black makeup. Titania, Queen of the Fairies, and her attendants are colorful, with blue, pink, purple and silver faces, adorned in glitter, leotards, and diaphanous dresses. Accompanying Oberon, Puck’s face is tinted green and decorated with a woodland tree while her costume is reminiscent of Peter Pan.

Junior Madison May, a Makeup Crew Chief, looks forward to bringing the fairy world to a whole new level of fantasy. Armed with colored base, glitter, false eyelashes, paintbrushes and the occasional facial hair appendage, May is excited for the opportunity to try techniques that other shows don’t afford.

“It’s just sparkle overload,” May said. “There’s a lot of small, intricate detail that we have to paint on with a paintbrush; everybody’s face is like a canvas.”

Costumes Crew has also ensured that no two characters look quite the same. Though the show has required the crew to make most of the outfits from scratch, junior Polly Haun, a Costumes Crew Chief, believes that the crew is well-adapted to adjusting to new challenges.

“We just kind of roll with the punches,” Haun said. “Every show is different in its own right and this happens to be one of them.”

By approaching Shakespeare’s classic like any modern play, the theater department has breathed life into the characters and relationships. According to Cappello, the script is, after all, supposed to be funny. The directors, cast and crew are confident that the audience will enjoy the show in spite of the perceived difficulty of understanding a Shakespearean show.

“Treat it as just a night at the theater rather than an assignment and you’ll be very, very pleasantly surprised,” Cappello said.

For a video about the tech of the show, click here.

Grade: 11

Instrument: Viola

Group: Juliet Quartet

Training: School Orchestra, Stringendo

Current Piece: JS Bach’s Cello Suite iii

Grade: 10

Medium: Jewelry

Inspiration: Family and friends

Why She Does What She Does: “My cousin got me into jewelry during a trip to Austin and I have loved it ever since.”

What Makes Her Unique: Sells her jewelry to the community

Video Credit: Mary Newman

Instruments: Epiphone Dot Guitar, Conservatory Music Violin

Activities: Symphonic Orchestra, Blue Knights, On The Record

Training: Private Lessons, School Classes

Favorite Styles: Jazz Guitar, Fiddle playing. “I try to be creative with composition. I try and do stuff that hasn’t been done before.”

Inspired By: Jack White, Bruce Springsteen, Beck

Dream Job: “I definitely want to be in the band of a late night talk show host. I would love that.”