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Welcome to Newton Orchestras! We are glad you are here!
Fall 2025
Dear orchestra friends,
We are excited to welcome new fifth graders to the orchestra family during the month of June at Chisholm Middle School! For the first few days, we will be getting to know each other and learning about the different parts of the instrument and how to properly care for your new investment! The growth that happens during Summer Strings is always amazing! Be sure to bring your registration form and payment with you on the first day so we can get your child registered for all of the fun!
Thank you so much for your support!
Riley Day & Rebecca Schloneger
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Dear orchestra friends,
We are thrilled to have so many young musicians at Santa Fe! Throughout the first couple of weeks of classes, it seemed that every day a few more would make the trek from their home rooms and brave the treacherous climb to our third-floor lair, a Himalayan sauna baked by the noon-day sun. There, panting with exertion and slowly melting into glistening pools, the intrepid young music-makers and brilliant dreamers of dreams would settle in with their fiddles and bows, and while the ever-growing classes of enthusiastic youngsters made for a slightly rocky start, orchestra at Santa Fe is starting to rock and roll!
Stringed instruments are notoriously slow off the blocks with their many delicate moving pieces, but after a few days of introductory safety training, the fifth-grade class has become fully certified in safe fiddle handling. (Don't worry, folks: these are professionals at work!) Once that was taken care of, there was no turning back and no holding back. The bunnies (or llamas or foxes, as the case may be) were out and gobbling bow-shaped carrots faster than you can say fiddle-dee-dee. Lay the carrots on the string, add some weight, and suddenly the most glorious sound in the world comes pouring forth, in profound and startling unison! It's a D!
Meanwhile, in the sixth grade, the excitement is palpable. Strains of calypso and Mozart and--what's this!? Can it be!? Yes! It is! It's Offenbach! But let us not get ahead of ourselves. No. Let us be reminded of simpler times, with loved ones gathered 'round the tree sipping hot cocoa by the fire wrapped in a nice warm--WAIT! It's too hot up here for that! Let's just play "Jingle Bells" and try to make it snow. Who says we can't have Christmas in August?
To better help us cool our top-floor inferno, we invited Palen Music to bring some instruments to share with those still without them, and that evening was a tremendous success! To see so many smiling faces walking about with new instruments was a real joy, and we cannot wait to help you all share your music with the world! Thank you to all the parents, siblings, friends, and loved-ones who support these budding musicians, who brought them to the display, who carry basses up and down stairs, who tolerate the shrill shriek of unsteady strings. Your patience and love and support is worth everything in the never-ending quest to add a little music to the world.
Sincerely,
Riley Day & Rebecca Schloneger
Directors of Orchestra, Santa Fe 5/6 Center
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