My name is Indre Raghavan and I'm a junior at Middleton High
School. I've been playing violin since I was seven years
old. It can really showcase the emotion that humans feel. I'm
half Indian, half Lithuanian. It's kind of cool to know that
I'm a part of so many different cultures. In the beginning of
August, my family always goes to Lithuania and I get to see
my cousins. I've been a part of WYSO for a little more than
eight years. "Okay, be ready. Three and four." Wisconsin Youth
Symphony Orchestra is a program where kids at any level
will be put in Orchestra and they can learn different
skills. "Now, just feel that, the chord is together." It's a
really good opportunity just to immerse yourself in other types
of music that you wouldn't play alone. "Pep-per-oni pi-zza." I'm a
teen teacher for WYSO music makers. It's really cool to work with
younger kids and just kind of take myself back. They're like
full of curiosity and I feel like that's so cool. "Okay,
start on the trail." I've been studying with Mr. Purdue for
almost five years. "You know the first question I'm going to ask you,
right?" He's definitely helped me so much. We're always like
working on intonation and making sure that you're like
representing yourself in the piece and making sure that it
isn't like, you aren't just like copying someone else's
interpretation.
I started CrossFit in 2020. It's like lifting and
running and box jumps and like a bunch of different things.
Nice. CrossFit is like a different way for me to like
set goals for myself because I feel like violin is very
subjective like you don't know if you're improving or not. With
CrossFit like, if you have a heavier weight, you know that
you've improved. "Higher, higher, faster." Keisha,
definitely supportive, but she definitely be like in your face
if you're not working as hard as like she knows you can. "Keep
going. Keep going." I always feel stronger after.
I will be playing Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor,
first movement. It starts out with like a really icy kind of
arctic opening. It kind of builds and becomes like more
fiery and more stormy and yeah, at the end, it's kind of just
like everything. I've already won in my eyes just like being
able to play. We've all won.