Vol. 58 No. 03 www.bcomber.org The Beachcomber Beachwood High School 25100 Fairmount Boulevard Beachwood, Ohio Dec. 16, 2016 BHS Musical Ensembles Perform With Cleveland Orchestra performing and worked in By Dalia Zullig another room…I had ex- Editor-in-Chief tra rehearsals twice a week The renovated audito- for the two to three weeks rium saw its first event on leading up to it, and each the evening of Nov. 5. The rehearsal was about an BHS Orchestra performed hour long.” with the Cleveland Orches- Goldman said students tra along with the choir who were not able to com- and some of the band. mit time to rehearsals were Instrumental music not forced to perform. teachers Lisa Goldman and “The students were told Noel DeViney worked with ahead of time that this the students in a series of would be something above rigorous rehearsals. Choir and beyond,” she said. “… Director Darlene Haight If students felt they did had 9 students sing along- not have the time, they side the Cleveland Or- could be excused.” chestra. 7 band students, A slightly reduced Cleve- led by Band Director Da- land Orchestra joined 39 vid Luddington, in both a students. They played piec- Brass Trio and Woodwind es that utilized the avail- Quartet, performed with able musicians. the Cleveland Orchestra as First the BHS musical well. ensembles performed a “I started working with series of pieces including the kids immediately when works by Vivaldi, Bach and school started,” Goldman Mendelssohn. After in- termission, the Cleveland Students from Beachwood’s orchestra had the opportunity to play side by side with the Cleveland Orchestra. said. “My assistant Noel Photo by Susan Bestul DeViney and I split the Orchestra played works by class so that I peeled off John Williams, Beethoven students. reer out of music, but she very cognizant of the little Haynesworth and Wu hope those kids who would be and Michael Dougherty. At “The way the conductor does want to keep playing. details within the music,” to join an orchestra in col- the end of the evening, the was able to communicate “It wasn’t terribly stress- Wu said. “He knew the lege. Inside This Issue... two orchestras joined to- with us and get us to do ful playing with the Cleve- style very well, and he gave Adams, who played the gether to perform Ravel’s what he wanted us to do land Orchestra,” Wasser- pretty good advice on the double bass during the Boléro as a finale. was amazing,” she said. “It man said. “It was more phrasing and how to mod- event, also wants to con- The students had the was almost like he was talk- stressful playing by our- ulate the bow.” tinue her musical career in opportunity to practice ing to us and not telling us selves because when you’re Freshman Abigail Ad- college. not only with Cleveland what to do. He would say ‘I playing with the Cleve- ams also learned a lot from “I’m not sure if I would Orchestra musicians, but want it to sound like this’ land Orchestra you know working with her stand major in music,” she wrote. also had a special rehearsal and not just ‘do this’.” it’s going to sound good… partner, Mark Atherton. “But I would love to play in with just Beachwood stu- Wasserman also found They’re so good that no “My stand partner was a college orchestra.” dents under the leadership it very educational to play matter what you do, it’s go- really cool,” she wrote in an “This is a once-in-a-life- of Cleveland Orchestra alongside the world-fa- ing to sound good.” email. “He’s been in the or- time kind of event,” Gold- conductor Brett Mitchell. mous orchestra. Senior Shitong Wu, who chestra for 30 years.” man said. “The Cleveland “The conductor came in “I think it was really played first chair viola, said “It’s great to play with Orchestra is a world class Hope Beats [about] two weeks out and PG 2 Hate interesting to see what playing with the orchestra people who are better than organization. It was both worked with just the 39 we’re doing for fun and on the night of the event you,” said senior Cameron an honor and a privilege kids,” Goldman said. for class being translated was cathartic. Haynesworth, who played to host them; it was both Senior Amanda Wasser- into something someone is “It was freeing because first cello, “…because you an honor and a privilege to man, who plays violin, said doing professionally,” she we’ve worked so much and get to see what you’re have them work with our the conductor had a special said. now we get to express it to missing out on.” students; and it was both way of getting across his Wasserman said she everybody,” he said. Wu wants to minor in an honor and a privilege to musical directions to the doesn’t want to make a ca- “My stand partner was music in college. Both be on stage with them.” Beachwood Responds To Shaker Heights Suspensions may or may not have been By Jinle Zhu related with the incident, a ASL Holiday News & Layout Editor walkout staged on Friday PG 3 Party the 11th, and a blackout by “No, because they don’t both Beachwood and Shak- work for it and as a cul- er, Weingard and Husa- ture they are scary, violent, madeen’s punishment has rude and needy. They ex- now been reversed. pect to be catered to.” According to the Shak- These were the words erite coverage, Husama- used in a text message sent deen’s mother met with by a Shaker Heights stu- Shaker Heights Principal dent the day after the elec- Jonathan Kuehnle and tion. It was a racist tirade came up with an alterna- directed at African Ameri- tive to her in-school sus- cans. pension. Shortly after, Shaker “I don’t think [Weingard Woman Heights students Elena and Husamadeen] should PG 6 Warriors Weingard and Myahh have been punished,” Husamadeen were appalled Shaker Heights senior Ben by the racist message and Livingston added. “They posted a screenshot of the were doing what they be- A banner was distributed on social media to organize the blackout. message on social media, lieved was right.” Image source: Instagram where it exploded. The use of racially- On Thursday Nov. 10, charged language and ra- City, verbal abuse of immi- not have been suspended. At Beachwood, students the Shaker Heights admin- cially-motivated violence grants and more. I know the suspension was have also expressed strong istration decided to call the have been increasingly com- “I understand why the overturned, but it was still opinions on the incident two girls to the principal’s mon since the election and student who [publicized the a bad decision.” and its outcomes. office, where they were in- are part of a larger trend. messages] was punished “I do hope the Shaker ad- On Friday, Nov. 11, formed of their in-school Since the election, there based on Shaker policy,” ministration tries to keep many Beachwood students suspension for “disruptive has been a nationwide in- Shaker senior Noah Gill the student body more joined Shaker Heights stu- behavior and speech.” crease in hate speech and said. “However, the other involved,” Livingston con- dents in holding a black- Responses Through an extraor- graffiti. According to CNN, student didn’t tweet any- cluded. “I was surprised out (where students wear PG 9 to Trump dinary series of events, documented incidents in- thing that would have ex- there wasn’t an assem- black clothing) to protest including a letter by the clude mosques getting let- posed the original commen- bly to talk about the sub- the suspension. The black- American Civil Liberties ters promoting genocide, tator’s privacy, not even the ject, what with the bomb Union, a bomb threat that vandalism in New York name, and therefore should threats and online uproar.” Continued on Pg.2 ... News THE BEACHCOMBER 2 News THE BEACHCOMBER 3 Holocaust Survivor Tells Story About Hope Overcoming Hate ASL Club Welcomes Community to “PJs and Cereal” Party was 17 years old, accord- Bernath emphasized the that for two weeks and ing to the Cleveland Jewish challenges of life in the restored Stanley’s hope in News. He now celebrates Nazi prison camps. In- humanity, giving him in- May 6 as his birthday ev- mates scrambled for food spiration to get through ery year. in a place where starvation each day with the knowl- “That’s when I was re- and torture were daily oc- edge that not all Nazis born,” Bernath told BHS currences. were monsters,” Deegan students in 2013, as quot- However, one day Ber- wrote. ed in the Cleveland Jewish nath was working near a Even though he was in a News. “If I had been there Nazi guard tower when a horrifying place, Bernath one more day, I would have miracle occurred. While he tried to stay hopeful. He been [dead].” was working, a small pack- emphasized the impor- Bernath and the other age dropped, as if from the tance of focusing on the prisoners were starved in sky. positive. the camp. When he was He was not sure whether “Hatred is a parasite that liberated in 1945, Bernath he should open it and take infects your brain,” he said. weighed only 65 pounds. the risk of being shot. He Students were awed On that day, he was eating took the risk, picked up by Bernath’s abillity to grass and worms while ly- the package, hid behind keep hope and love in his “Hatred is a parasite that infects your brain.” Photo by Rihab Ali ing on the ground.