The Los Angeles Children’s Orchestra is made up of elementary school children. You have to be at least 6 to play. They’re known to be excellent musicians and, it turns out, dancers. Elaborate choreography is incorporated into their performances.
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Their performances are impressive on many levels, but most notably because they don’t have a home. That’s why they’re competing on America’s Got Talent. If they win $1 million, they’re going to buy a building for the orchestra. They rent spaces from churches and schools. But finding space for 40-60 kids and their parents during noisy rehearsals is a tall order. The orchestra’s director, Susan Pascale, starts kids in her program as young as 3-and-a-half on piano, and then strings from age 4-and-a-half. America’s Got Talent airs Tuesdays at 8pm on NBC.
