Stopping the music?

For nine-year-old Ferran Romero, there is no sweeter sound than the boisterous bellows of his trombone. Connie Llanos in the Daily News.

"It sounds like an elephant," Ferran said as he balanced the brass instrument, nearly his size.

The fourth-grade student from Topeka Drive Elementary started playing the trombone last year thanks to a Los Angeles Unified program that brings music, dance, theater and art classes to every elementary school in the district.