Friday, Apr. 24 the high school orchestra is traveling to each of the elementary schools in St. Louis Park on their Tour of Schools.

The orchestra introduces younger students to the orchestra program by performing as well as demonstrating how each instrument works, according to high school orchestra director Miriam Edgar.

Junior Maggie Coleman said she believes the Tour of Schools is an entertaining way to recruit orchestra students.

“It’s fun to go out and play for little kids because they think we’re super great and they ask questions that are really amusing,” Coleman said.

According to Miriam Edgar, the orchestra director at the high school, the Tour of Schools is a day of nonstop performances and continuous travel from one school to the next.

“We get five minutes to unload, set up and tune, 20 minutes to perform, a couple minutes for questions and then quickly load the bus once again to go to the next school,” Edgar said.

The Tour of Schools is the event that gets the most students excited to join the orchestra, according to Edgar.

“It’s the biggest thing that affects our program here at the middle school and the high school and allows the program to keep growing,” Edgar said.