Joshua Bell

It's a life-changing experience.

In an orchestra, a child learns about beauty, and they learn how to listen to each other and to be part of something bigger than themselves.

They learn discipline, of course, as well, but it's fun.

I mean, playing in an orchestra is just a blast, and I wish every town had a youth orchestra, or multiple youth orchestras.

I mean, how about as many youth orchestras as we have little league baseball teams?

Hey, I love baseball.

Well, I think we could make that happen.

I really hope for that in the future.

And on that note, I actually want to welcome a few new musicians to our stage.

And these are members of the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra.

We're going to...

They're going to join our Chamber Orchestra of America, and thank you all for our finale here, our little encore, you might say.

This is from Tchaikovsky.

We'll end the session with this, and this is his Serenade for Strings.

Thanks for listening.