Orchestra students in the Middleton-Cross Plains School District had their music world expanded with a visit by Chitravina N. Ravikiran, who is known as the “Mozart of Indian Music.”
He is a world-renowned composer, slide instrumentalist and vocalist who visited the orchestra students in fifth through 12th grades last month and was commissioned to create compositions for them to play. The high schoolers have performed their piece, and the middle schoolers will play the one created for them at a concert May 23.
Fifth-graders came to Glacier Creek Middle School, where Ravikiran visited with all of the district’s middle school orchestra students although the younger students won’t play one of Ravikiran’s pieces in a concert.