One could sense the audience sitting up higher in their seats and taking notice as they realized that these were not just children playing music, but ensembles of fine young musicians performing music wonderfully.
Geivens Dextra is the winner of the 2023 Daniel Pearl Berkshire Scholarship. A graduate of Pittsfield High School and an aspiring violinist, Dextra wants to use music to tell stories.
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A student who said he got goosebumps the first time he played the violin in an orchestra is this year’s recipient of a college scholarship given in honor of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan in January 2002 while investigating a story on terrorism.