A Visit That Motivated.
A Visit That Motivated.
By Vada Martens.
On March 23rd, the seventh-grade orchestra was in for a great performance, one that was unannounced and unknown to the students.
Students stood in the music hallway as they waited to get into the classroom. But there was a change in the hallway, amongst all of the students was a group of four grown adults, but the students didn't really notice them.
The eighth-grade orchestra students flooded out of the room, and the seventh graders sped into the room. All of the chairs were facing the back of the classroom, and the adults from the hallway were unpacking the cases that they had with them. A shiny pair of violins, a glossy cello and a sleek viola were unpacked and shown. Our fantastic teacher, Ms Lavadie, introduced the group as a quartet from Juilliard, and the class went silent. A class of 50 loud 13-12-year-olds lost words. (If you don't know, Juilliard is a very prestigious college for music, nearly 7-8 HOURS by plane and 29 HOURS by car.)
I was really excited as the group sat down and tuned. The main violist turned to the class and started with introductions, then they started to talk about the upcoming piece. The quartet started to play, and the class of students was in awe; everyone was angling themselves so they could see and hear best. The group of performers spent roughly four minutes performing and ended with complete silence. The class was silent for what felt like years, but was truly a few seconds. The students stood with applause, and the instrumentalist took the applause with smiles and nods. Once the applause died down, the lead violinist asked for the opinions of the crowd, getting lots of enthusiastic nods and thumbs up, thrilled to see the crowd enjoyed the chosen piece, she then asked for the critiques on the performance. Of course, you can't exactly critique something that's perfect, so the quartet got tons of praise for their fantastic performance. The quartet played many more pieces and got the same feedback, clapping and gobsmacked faces.
The orchestra that walked into that classroom at 12:51 (The beginning of class) was left, changed and forgotten. The orchestra that walked out of the classroom that day was a brand-new and inspired group of students.
-Vada Martens
Band Has Gone To Competition
Band Has Gone To Competition
By: Scout Greener, 7th Grade Fake News Reporter
This Thursday, 7th graders left FMS at 11:20 am, during their 5th hour, to go to Central High School for the CoWest competition.
Image from: ABC News Why do we listen to music? - Behind The News
The Wrong Words: Misheard lyrics
The Wrong Words: Misheard lyrics
By: Adalyn TenEyck writer and reporter for the Fruita Feed - 4/19/26
Picture you're blasting one of your favorite songs that you've essentially listened to over a hundred times now, but this time you notice something different. From paying closer attention to the lyrics you realize something doesn’t sound quite right and some terms simply don’t make sense. This found imperfection in the song, and most songs in general aren't due to the artist's “artistic vision” or interesting taste, instead you the listener are the one who is out of whack. Mishearing lyrics is very common in the music world and actually happens to a lot of people. This leads to a placebo effect of misinterpreting certain expressions.
There is actually a dictionary recognized definition for frequently mishearing a song lyric or line of poetry; mondegreen. This word was originally coined by the American writer Sylvia Wright in a 1954 Harper’s Magazine essay. This goes to show people have been misinterpreting and filling in the blanks for years.
Some of the most popular songs have misheard lyrics, take Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” where most fans are convinced that Taylor exclaims, "All the lonely Starbucks lovers." When in fact Taylor is not actually explaining her thoughts on solitary coffee lovers, but instead expressing her “long list of ex-lovers.”
In case you want to learn more about mondegreens, here are a few other commonly misheard lyrics I discovered whilst doing research for this project:
Micheal Jackson’s - Man in the Mirror: “And no Mrs.could have been any clever” / “And no message could be clearer”
Eminem and Rihanna’s - Monster: “I’m friends with the mustard under my bed” / “I’m friends with the monster under my bed.”
ABBA’s - Dancing Queen: “See that girl, watch her scream, kicking the dancing queen” / “See that girl, watch that scene, diggin’ the Dancing Queen”
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