Third-grade students from Normandy’s Jefferson School go through a dress rehearsal of their original opera, “The Big Bad Day,” last Tuesday at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center.

Third-grade students from Normandy’s Jefferson School go through a dress rehearsal of their original opera, “The Big Bad Day,” last Tuesday at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center.
Third-grade students from Normandy’s Jefferson School go through a dress rehearsal of their original opera, “The Big Bad Day,” last Tuesday at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center.
Third-grade students from Normandy’s Jefferson School go through a dress rehearsal of their original opera, “The Big Bad Day,” last Tuesday at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center.
Young musicians from about 40 high schools and middle schools in Missouri and Illinois took part in the two-day event last week.