2014 2014 2014 2014 Express the Music Express the Music Express the Music Express the Music Finalists Finalists Finalists Finalists The following MS Orchestra students were selected as finalists for the annual Express the Music contest presented by the St. Louis Symphony Volunteer Associaon and sponsored by the Employees Community Fund of Boeing St. Louis. Marina Schmitt, Truman MS Gr8 Lelah Schneider, Sperreng MS Gr8 Hope Henningsen, Sperreng MS Gr7 Trisha Nguyen, Sperreng MS Gr6 Hope Henningsen was awarded 3rd place for her 2014 Essay! Please visit the St. Louis Symphony Volunteer Association website to view Hope’s winning essay! http://www.stlsymphony.org/support/expressthemusic.aspx The Express the Music contest gives students the experience of wring a creave essay, short story or poem in response to listening to Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra: Movement IV “Intermezzo Interroo”. This year, over 1,850 students parcipated in Express the Music 2014. 451 of the essays were submied from the St. Louis area into the compeon. Preliminary judging by members of the Symphony Volunteer Associaon and the community idenfied 42 finalists from both the Junior Division (Grades 6-8) and Senior Division (Grades 9-12). Four final judges selected three finalists and two honorable menons per each Division. Four MS stu- dents from Lindbergh Schools were honored as finalists, one of which placed 3rd in the Junior division. Hope Henningsen, 3rd Place Winner Sperreng MS– Gr7 Violinist