"Pineland Suzuki School concerts to demonstrate students’ language-like learning of music"
When Betsy Kobayashi raises the bow of her violin straight up high, some 50 young string musicians follow suit, pointing to the high vaulted ceiling of South Parish Congregational Church and giving her their absolute attention.
With an emphatic downstroke, Kobayashi launches the violin, viola and cello players into the first notes of “Minuet No. 3” by Johann Sebastian Bach. The sound is startlingly powerful yet sweet, filling the sanctuary of the church. None of the boys and girls has any sheet music in front of them.
