Antonio Argento

Musician

Inspired musician, Junior Antonio Argento, plays guitar, piano, bass and drums. A lover of the music from the 70s and the 80s, he got the inspiration to start playing music from the songs of our past. Argento really enjoys the classic rock genre, and has actually learned how to play “Bohemian Rhapsody” from 1975. This cover took him a lot of time to create, and he spent a lot of time making the guitar sound exactly like the one in the studio version.
Argento’s biggest inspiration is Queen. With his biggest inspiration for guitar being Brian May and his biggest inspiration for piano being Freddie Mercury. The reason he first bought a guitar was hearing the guitar solo from “Don’t Stop Me Now”.
Trying to improve his vocals, he joined the choir. He hopes to one day incorporate vocals into his created music.
For him, music is a hobby that brings him a lot of inspiration. While he doesn’t see music as a job option for himself, he does see it as a hobby that he wants to pursue throughout his life and grow in.
“I like the complexity and like the structure overall, because it’s really interesting to be able to take something that I hear in my mind and create it, and just really dabble on it and change it the way I want to, rather than having someone else do it,” Argento said.

Cecelia Szekely

Artist

Sophomore Cecelia Szekely is a prominent painter in our school. She is in art class, and her favorite form of art is painting. This can be seen through the murals she has created on the school walls.
“I find it relaxing and an easy way to express myself,” Szekely said.
Szekely paints whatever she wants to, she lets her creative flow guide her, and she likes to paint flowy paintings without much detail. She has been painting for years, but she just developed her own style last year. She finds a lot of inspiration through Pinterest as well.
When art teacher Jay Langone asked her if she wanted to be involved with painting the school walls into a mural, she said yes. Her most recent creation is a fish on the wall, and it was inspired by one of her own already-made paintings.

Lilly Williams

Musician

Senior Lilly Williams is a self-taught musician. Williams plays mostly on the guitar, but she has experience playing many different instruments. Some of them would include guitar, bass, ukulele, flute, harmonica, piano and violin. Her favorite type of music is rock, and she really likes the oldies. Her favorite types of music are from the sixties, seventies and nineties, with artists like Jimi Hendrix, and she called her preferred type of music “grungy dad rock.” Playing music is her favorite thing to do outside of school, and she plays every day, often for multiple hours.
However, Williams’ dog recently ate most of her guitar tuner, and without it, she found herself with more stress and decreased happiness.
“I was sad,” WIlliams said. “I was like, ‘What am I supposed to do now? Just like homework and nothing else?’”
Williams is not in a band class, and she has taught herself everything she knows through Youtube tutorials and websites. She also thinks that learning her favorite songs on the instruments she plays will ruin them, so she doesn’t typically try to.