The Freshman Band: These Lambs are Not From Heaven
Bruno Beckman '27
Masterman prides itself on the outstanding academic proficiency of its students, meaning the creatives in Julia R. Matserman School often get overlooked. But they are present here. Take, for example, the people in voices and vibe, or the dancers in previous talent shows, or the bands in every grade.
Highlighting an up-and-coming Masterman talent group, the freshman band named These Lambs Are Not From Heaven, just had their school debut at the talent show on April 26. To get acquainted with the new band I went to one of their practices to try and get familiar with the band’s four members—Mady Munoz-Martines, Charlotte Gavin, Jaida Brown, and Alister Herman—as well as to get a sense of the band as a whole’s creative process in advance of writing this article.
There I watched as the band worked on their performance for Pride, the whole time wanting to switch away from their cover work and start experimenting with their original song. The energy level shifted once something like a song began to be played. And smiles appeared on faces when a melodic sound began to appear from flutes, guitars, and poems. The band is just beginning, so there is a slow roll into producing their first song, but from just one practice I can tell These Lambs Are Not From Heaven is serious about their music.
After hearing them play with such a synchronized flow, I was curious to know what had brought all these people together into their unit. So I asked all four members about their introduction to music: Alister, one of their singers and bassists, talks about her roots in music, “for middle school I got rejected from Masterman but accepted to GAMP, and at the time I thought lame music school, but it started me playing an instrument and playing music, and now I'm here, playing music.” Charlotte, one of their guitarists, describes her musical upbringing “From my childhood, my father would always introduce me to new kinds of music, and my passion stemmed from that. I appreciate that and how diverse the music they showed me was, so I was like let me play some music.” Mady, their bassist and tambourinist, talks about her early exploration in the world of music, “I always really liked listening to music and different genres, I just had a lot of free time, so I started just listening to a bunch of music. Then I started thinking that I wanted to start making my own music, and doing that as a band is really fun.” And finally, Jaida, their drummer, decided not to say anything.
Between their debut performance at the talent show to their ability to perfectly play together with their shared love of music, it is clear this grades band will be making some great music.