CALDWELL -- A Caldwell student is one of the state's top high school viola players.
But Henry Olvera didn't choose the stringed instrument, and he's never taken lessons. Caldwell orchestra teacher Gini Rosandick needed a viola for the high school orchestra, so Olvera agreed to play.
"I handed it to him the first day of school," Rosandick said. "It was sink or swim. He swam."
Olvera first started on the violin in fifth grade, and Rosandick said he was one of her beginner students that year. But Olvera wasn't just any student. He had a gift.
"He has a fantastic ear," Rosandick said. "He hears things in a way that is different from most people."
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