It’s not every day that a four-time-Grammy-winning chamber ensemble visits our classroom! Through the Eugene Symphony’s educational outreach program, we were lucky enough to have Eighth Blackbird come out to EHS before their performance with the Eugene Symphony that evening.

Our students were engaged and mesmerized, and when given the opportunity to ask questions, they asked fascinating and thoughtful ones. Later that evening, the EHS band attended a pre-concert lecture at the Hult Center in which two members of Eighth Blackbird were asked to reflect about their favorite parts of their four-day residency in Eugene. Both of them talked about their visit to Elmira, and the great questions that our kids asked! Well done, EHS music students.