Saturday, 9 o’clock AM: a time teenagers typically devote to recovering from a long and mentally exhausting week at school, enjoying sleep, food, or other pleasant distractions. However, on almost any such morning during the school year, the members of the Utah Youth Symphony Orchestra will be otherwise occupied. At first sleepy-eyed and subdued, the adolescent musicians of the ensemble grow livelier as rehearsal progresses, eventually filling the room not only with music but also the sound of whispered conversations...

New York University is a fairly unusual choice for a performance major- granted, their acting and film studios have quite a reputation, but NYU isn't particularly well-known...