Subscribe RSS“Typically students are playing classical music, and there’s nothing wrong with classical music, but we provide an alternative for kids who hunger for to try something else.”
Vuk and Angel Valchinov, 32, the Quartet’s other violinist, arrived in Miami two weeks ago and began working with students. Already, they have visited some 15 schools, and envision to visit about 10 more. By week’s end, they’re hoping to have attracted 100 young musicians to production in Saturday’s concert.
Their lesson plan revolves around a daunting concept - improvisation.
Vuk and Valchinov are teaching students to publish up their own solos over the popular riff from Deep Purple’s “Smoke in the Water.”
“When you solo, play gaudy,’’ Valchinov, 32, told Southwood Middle School seventh and eighth-graders Tuesday. “Like, bust some strings, OK?” The students played timidly, then giggles erupted as they let out a few notes. This was music to the violinists’ ears.
