Fine Tuned

The Lincoln Junior High and High School music students showed off their talent at the Spring Concert at the Lincoln Methodist Church Wednesday, May 22.

The spring concert is the third school concert held at the Methodist Church, which is now also home to a grand piano donated to the communty last fall by Sculpture in the Wild.

Lincoln Schools music teacher Melissa Gilbert said the space at the church is better suited to musical performances than the school gym, which she said tends to "swallow" sound.

"For singing I absolutely love it," she said. "Sometimes I know it can be overwhelming with drums, but....thats why we kind of split up things. It kind of helps a bit with balance. But it's still a lot more fun for them to play in here, it's a lot more fun for them to sing in here."

Gilbert said since she only sees the students twice a week, she doesn't have time to delve very far into classical music with them. Instead she allows them to choose more contemporary music, with the caveat that they have to present it to her, and successfully perform it in front of their peers before she'll let it go on the program.

"These are some choices that appeal to them and they have grown, I feel like, in their ability perform in front of people tremendously because they have this opportunity," she said.