In the May 18 issue of Journal West, Winston-Salem Journal reporter Lisa O’Donnell writes about West Forsyth High School senior Arinton
Davis. Here is an excerpt:
The violin felt natural in Arinton Davis’
hands.
Holding one for the first time as a
sixth-grader at Jefferson Middle School, he knew instinctively how to grasp the
bow and cradle the neck.
“Oh, this is awesome,” Arinton thought to
himself.
Eager to set forth on the journey of
making beautiful music, he took the instrument home that night and put bow to
string.
Nothing.
Not one sound played.
“It was a very rough first day,” Arinton
said with a laugh.
He has since learned that the bow needs a
few good swipes of rosin to make the strings sing.
He’s absorbed other musical lessons as
well, so much so that he is among the top student violinists in the state,
having twice been named to the N.C. Music Educators Association All-State
Orchestra.
That’s just one highlight on a college
application heaving with the kinds of honors and achievements that turned the
heads of some of the country’s top universities.
Duke University took notice and recently
awarded the West Forsyth High School senior its prestigious A.B. Duke
Scholarship, which will provide him with free tuition and room and board for
four years. While there, he plans to combine his interest in math,
computational science and genetics, and hopes to play with a student orchestra.
Photos are by Journal photographer
Lauren Carroll. For the complete story, go to Winston-Salem Journal
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