When I was in the third grade I distinctly remember watching my brother Steve play the drums in the 6th grade Band at the Bagnall School in Groveland, MA. I idolized him and thought that's the instrument I am going to play...I'm sure my parents were happy with no rental fees! In fourth grade, there were tons and tons of percussionists. I remember Matt Lovett and I standing out as the better of the bunch. Back then, Mrs. Tatarunis was our band director and General Music Teacher at the Bagnall and she rocked! Everyone was in band! We had it the last hour of school each Friday and the teachers loved getting that free time.
In the 7th grade, I got that typical middle school attitude when meeting Mr. Howard in my first percussion lesson. When asked for my name instead of saying Anthony, I said Lloyd, named after the main character of the movie Dumb and Dumber. Everyone in the lesson laughed their heads off and Mr. Howard decided to keep calling me Lloyd for the remainder of that year. I remember that attitude I had that year and use that as part of my philosophy when teaching middle school. I have learned that yelling at middle schoolers does nothing but make them hate you. I've also learned that they are simply crazy at this time and as soon as they hit grade 9, they are complete angels. I've been able to see this progression as I teach both middle and high school.
My 7th grade year was a tough one for me as I was struggling to learn how to do a drum roll. I felt like a fool when I could not roll. I remember for the first time in my life actually practicing non-stop for multiple weeks and then finally one day it just hit....I could finally do a drum roll. Five stroke, seven stroke, double and singles...I was alive. It was from that point that my percussion skills went sky high. Ms. Manning made me percussion section leader and during competition time I would run extra sectionals during second period. We all told our teachers it was our lesson time which was not true, but they never could keep track of what lessons were when with the crazy rotating schedule. My music experience at the middle school included concert band, lessons, sectionals during a "lesson time," and participating in the school musical.
In 8th grade, we had a special person come down to help Ms. Manning...Rachel Godin, the high school Drum Major. It was Rachel's idea to have me join the West Newbury Veteran's Firemen's Band which I now conduct as the Merrimack Valley Concert Band. Also, she talked me into playing with the high school marching band as an 8th grader. These two activities changed my life. I knew at that point that music was my passion and that's where I was going. The summer before high school I was playing almost weekly with the VFA Band, Rachel always picking me up in her big brown minivan. That is where I met longtime members Hustes Purdee and Don Snow. The group was led by Karen Mundo who I knew approved of me based off of my first rehearsal with the band when I struck an awesome drum roll for the National Anthem. My sight-reading and musicality went way way up that summer and I was ready to roll for high school.
Ninth grade hits and it is the last year with Mr. Howard but the first year with Zach. The band had about 50 members that year and a color guard. My favorite moment of the year was when Mr. Howard was dealing with one of the trumpet players who had an attitude problem. The trumpet player said something abstract as usual and Mr. Howard lifted his head up at the podium, stated "Your Mother," put his head down and started conducting. We in all honesty were in silence after we stopped that rep of music because we were confused if that was what he actually said....we were somewhat in shock. So then the trumpet player asks him if that was what he really said, Mr. Howard responded with a yes and then the whole room was crying in laughter for about five minutes. Mr. Howard was a very serious, dedicated, and highly respected old school band director. He did not have many jokes so this was pretty groundbreaking. I knew that if I became a band director, such jokes, though more appropriate of course, would create a great band environment.
That year Zach came in with tons of hair and a big beard (he changes his look about every 6 months). Zach had a passion to come back and work with the percussionists. He started a percussion ensemble from scratch. We met on Saturday mornings starting at 9am. From what I remember it was Cathy Thomas, Sasha Mixus, myself and someone else. Our first song ever was "Heart and Soul," which I already knew learning from my favorite teacher of all time, Maria Gray who taught 2nd grade. We also did a hand drum piece we created on our own. This was the beginning of something special. We all knew it, Zach knew it, Ellen Hart knew it...it was just too cool and awesome to stop. When Zach left to pursue his studio full time a year ago, he had 2 middle school ensembles, 2 high school ensembles and a mallet ensemble. Incredible! He put his life into this program...an alumni wanting to fix and enhance what he believed in.
When Mr. Howard left, the music department went through a very very rough time. In my three years of high school after Mr. Howard, we went through five more band directors. The department was in turmoil. As soon as we accepted a new director and got used to him, he was gone. There was a saving grace however...and that was in David Schumacher, our jazz teacher. He was hired part time my sophomore year and he made the choice to hold big band after school. There was this amazing amazing drum-set player, a hot shot freshmen who ended up getting a full ride to Berklee so as a concert percussionist I could not compare. Mr. Gray who now teaches at Masco, taught me the trombone and I played that in jazz band. The trombone section was made up of misfits...Laura Berube (bassoon) and Danielle Ripa (piano/flute) and myself. We rocked though and David was never afraid to let us just play loud notes to get better. David grew the program to have a full big band, jazz combo, blues band, and a kickn' middle school jazz band.
I remember my senior year getting into UMass Lowell and thinking it was the happiest moment of my life. I worked my butt off their performing in every ensemble possible. Most semesters I went over the maximum amount of credits allowed and had to get waivers. I did everything: concert band, marching band, wind ensemble, orchestra, percussion ensemble. In 2005 I spent the entire year getting my mallet chops up performing and traveling the country with the Spartans Drum Corps from Nashua. After that year, I began teaching the front ensemble of the Chelmsford marching band and percussion ensemble. I then taught a percussion ensemble at Lowell High School, volunteering two nights a week. I put an application in to have the Lowell High group perform at an All-State Concert Hour. I was in disbelief when we were selected....typically this is a time set aside for the top concert bands and choirs in the state to perform....Lexington, Belmont, Duxbury to name a few. The group played their hearts out for a full half-hour and my fondest memory was the standing ovation from the over 300 music teachers standing in the room. They did not stop clapping...some of the kids were in tears. Totally one of the best moments of my life.
Fast forward to a phone call I received from Zach Field. I was about to interview for a position at Triton when the phone rang. Throughout the years I would e-mail Zach and Ellen Hart my life updates and I had just done so a few weeks earlier. Zach asked me if I was looking for a full-time teaching job yet. My response...I am finishing my student teaching now and looking. He said two words I had hoped for probably since my freshmen year of high school: "Pentucket's Hiring!" Could it be true? The place where I got my education was looking for a music teacher? YES! I was so happy...I didn't even have the job yet and knew I would give it 200%. I remember interviewing...I actually had to come to four separate interviews between the principals and superintendent. The super was def. the hardest to sell as I think he wanted a more experienced teacher to come in. I did my politics and contacted the provost from UMass Lowell along with Michael LaCava who at the time was the MMEA President and also my student teaching observer. They both called the super and told him to hire me. My last meeting with him and he was sold! I got the job! I could not stop thinking of all the changes I wanted to make. I was e-mailing Ellen Hart lengthy lengthy e-mails that summer with many ideas. I don't know how she kept track. Through my time at UMass Lowell and all the clinics I went to at All-State, I knew the formula for creating an excellent music program. I was ready to go.
My first day at Pentucket was awesome. I saw a lot of my old teachers. It was Jonathan's first day as the new principal and Dave Evans came back to be an assistant principal. Everything felt right. With help from Ellen Hart, whenever I had an idea, the administration would say yes! We had about 32 kids in band that year..it was small but those kids played their hearts out and the music I gave them was not easy...specifically "Riverdance." That year was the last year of Pep Band with the crazy jackets (which I found quite ugly). We took the old uniforms out of storage and performed in the Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade. The kids loved it and since then we have slowly increased the marching aspect of the band to a point where it is a true positive ambassador of the school district.
Lisa Arsenault and her husband had a tragedy with the loss of their daughter which hit the community hard. I remember Julia performing in the Boston St. Pats Parade in our color guard. She was so excited that we were going to start a new color guard program. A few days before she passed I distinctly remember her walking into the middle school auditorium and walking to the front of the stage to ask me information about next year's color guard and then she walked away. My first year teaching was with many obstacles but losing a student is not something anyone or any family should have to go through. I was touched when the family asked if we could perform a piece with the Citations Drum Corps at Julia's service. Yuri, our star trumpet player and Julia's brother, performed was in the Citations. Out of all the pieces we owned in our library, "Amazing Grace" stuck out as most appropriate. Our small band at that point did not have a low brass section...we didn't even own a tuba. We only had one day to rehearse the piece alone and were playing it on the spot with the Citations at the service. Wow...this was not a dry eye in the house. Our kids were performing their hearts out, trying to make no mistakes with a piece they just got the day before. At the same time, they were listening to the brass sound to their right coming from the Citations....they were not used to this low end and the piece was epic. We were touched that the Arsenault family let us be part of this experience.
A lot has happened in four years. We've doubled the size of both the middle and high school bands, started marching band and a competitive winter guard, created a new private lesson program through community ed, brought in guest clinicians to work with the bands, traveled to Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C., and created interdisciplinary projects funded through cultural council grants. Through all of these changes, the students themselves have put forth the biggest change. They are the most dedicated, passionate, and musical people I know. They are excited to play, excited to learn, and yes, even excited to tune their instruments! Don't get me wrong, we had our tough times...when I knew we needed to make some changes and the students were nervous at first. This is really when the parents played a huge role in changing the program for the better. We would hold band parent meetings and I would put forth ideas to them about the program...a strategic plan if you would. They would make comments, we'd make changes to the ideas, and then we had ownership in the changes which they then helped enforce into their children. Roberta Homan, Cheryl Pearson, the Shaffers, Pauline Perris, and of course Lisa and Marty Arsenault.
This past year I served on a new subcommittee on the All-State board called "Future Symphony Hall Scholars." Though we only met a few times, the goals were clear. We wanted to create grant opportunities to communities that have little funding so that a population we are not currently serving at the All-State ensemble level will some day get it. It was through these discussions that I remembered teaching the percussion ensemble at Lowell High. That was when I started meandering job postings in Boston, Lawrence, and Lowell. Looking at these openings excited me greatly but at the same time it was tough to think about leaving Pentucket.
Fast forward to Memorial Day this year. Instead of having the Merrimack Valley Concert Band play at the West Newbury ceremony, I had the high school band play. That day we played in two ceremonies in Merrimac followed by a parade and ceremony in West Newbury. All of the performances were the best I have heard from the band. The color guard looked great, we had our new banner, drum majors were attentive and doing a great job leading and best of all the band looked and sounded great. I remember playing "Tribute to America" at the West Newbury ceremony. We were sitting down concert band style and the color guard was behind us performing their routine. We played the piece and when it ended there were a few seconds of silence and before clapping started...I heard many people saying "wow." A band alumni from the 1980's came up to me after and said that the band sounded amazing and better then when he was in it. The parade was where it also really hit me. At one point I just stood still on the sidewalk and watched the entire band walk by. This was when it hit me. The band is "good." They've grown in numbers, can play their hearts out, look great, and have excellent student leadership. Leaving Pentucket did not seem like such a reach now. All the efforts of everyone involved would not go to waste. knowing that whoever takes over will take it to its next level and enjoy the fruits of the growth this past year in the middle school program. My dream for Pentucket is to have 100 people in the band. If the numbers at the middle school stay the same as last year, you can bet that will happen in no time.
In the middle of the summer I received information about a new position in Lowell funded by Race to the Top grant money. The position was teaching music to at-risk students along with Cambodian refugees who just came to the states. I applied for the position and a few days after my interview was offered the job. Just hours after accepting it, I had the hardest conversation with the fine arts director, Michael Smith via the phone. The words I never thought would come out of my mouth did. "I've landed a new position." It was a very real conversation but Michael was supportive and knew I had been wanting to work in the urban setting which is where most of his teaching background was from.
Luckily, the administration let me take part in some of the interviews and the resume reading. Bobby Rathbone who hails from North Carolina and most recently the band director of East Providence High School in Rhode Island, has won the opportunity to take the program from where it is now to new heights. The other day I drove down to Providence and had coffee with Mr. Rathbone for about two hours. Everything he said to me made so much sense and on top of it, a lot of what he does and who he is reminds me of me. He is the perfect candidate as well because he tells some pretty awful jokes apparently (remember my story about Mr. Howard).
Next week we will both be teaching band camp together. North Andover did this when Aaron Goldberg left and it proved to make a successful transition, something that I was not accustomed to when I was a student in the Pentucket Band.
Last night I received a phone call that my application for a downtown loft in Lowell was approved. That was when it really hit me that I am leaving Pentucket. I hate to leave and don't want to and yet at the same time know that the new challenges ahead in Lowell are important and know that I can make a positive impact there. Bobby is going to do a spectacular job running this program and I can't wait to read future newspaper articles about their successes and visit at concerts.
There are way too many people to thank for giving me such a great opportunity to work at Pentucket. It will always hold a very special place in my heart and will always be in the back of my mind. Jen Solis and the Fine and Performing Arts Foundation along with Sharon Pacenka and all of her work and support of the private lesson program/middle school schedule change deserve shout-outs as well as they helped foster growth and success in the program.
Mr. B
-Band is the Best Class!
In the 7th grade, I got that typical middle school attitude when meeting Mr. Howard in my first percussion lesson. When asked for my name instead of saying Anthony, I said Lloyd, named after the main character of the movie Dumb and Dumber. Everyone in the lesson laughed their heads off and Mr. Howard decided to keep calling me Lloyd for the remainder of that year. I remember that attitude I had that year and use that as part of my philosophy when teaching middle school. I have learned that yelling at middle schoolers does nothing but make them hate you. I've also learned that they are simply crazy at this time and as soon as they hit grade 9, they are complete angels. I've been able to see this progression as I teach both middle and high school.
My 7th grade year was a tough one for me as I was struggling to learn how to do a drum roll. I felt like a fool when I could not roll. I remember for the first time in my life actually practicing non-stop for multiple weeks and then finally one day it just hit....I could finally do a drum roll. Five stroke, seven stroke, double and singles...I was alive. It was from that point that my percussion skills went sky high. Ms. Manning made me percussion section leader and during competition time I would run extra sectionals during second period. We all told our teachers it was our lesson time which was not true, but they never could keep track of what lessons were when with the crazy rotating schedule. My music experience at the middle school included concert band, lessons, sectionals during a "lesson time," and participating in the school musical.
In 8th grade, we had a special person come down to help Ms. Manning...Rachel Godin, the high school Drum Major. It was Rachel's idea to have me join the West Newbury Veteran's Firemen's Band which I now conduct as the Merrimack Valley Concert Band. Also, she talked me into playing with the high school marching band as an 8th grader. These two activities changed my life. I knew at that point that music was my passion and that's where I was going. The summer before high school I was playing almost weekly with the VFA Band, Rachel always picking me up in her big brown minivan. That is where I met longtime members Hustes Purdee and Don Snow. The group was led by Karen Mundo who I knew approved of me based off of my first rehearsal with the band when I struck an awesome drum roll for the National Anthem. My sight-reading and musicality went way way up that summer and I was ready to roll for high school.
Ninth grade hits and it is the last year with Mr. Howard but the first year with Zach. The band had about 50 members that year and a color guard. My favorite moment of the year was when Mr. Howard was dealing with one of the trumpet players who had an attitude problem. The trumpet player said something abstract as usual and Mr. Howard lifted his head up at the podium, stated "Your Mother," put his head down and started conducting. We in all honesty were in silence after we stopped that rep of music because we were confused if that was what he actually said....we were somewhat in shock. So then the trumpet player asks him if that was what he really said, Mr. Howard responded with a yes and then the whole room was crying in laughter for about five minutes. Mr. Howard was a very serious, dedicated, and highly respected old school band director. He did not have many jokes so this was pretty groundbreaking. I knew that if I became a band director, such jokes, though more appropriate of course, would create a great band environment.
That year Zach came in with tons of hair and a big beard (he changes his look about every 6 months). Zach had a passion to come back and work with the percussionists. He started a percussion ensemble from scratch. We met on Saturday mornings starting at 9am. From what I remember it was Cathy Thomas, Sasha Mixus, myself and someone else. Our first song ever was "Heart and Soul," which I already knew learning from my favorite teacher of all time, Maria Gray who taught 2nd grade. We also did a hand drum piece we created on our own. This was the beginning of something special. We all knew it, Zach knew it, Ellen Hart knew it...it was just too cool and awesome to stop. When Zach left to pursue his studio full time a year ago, he had 2 middle school ensembles, 2 high school ensembles and a mallet ensemble. Incredible! He put his life into this program...an alumni wanting to fix and enhance what he believed in.
When Mr. Howard left, the music department went through a very very rough time. In my three years of high school after Mr. Howard, we went through five more band directors. The department was in turmoil. As soon as we accepted a new director and got used to him, he was gone. There was a saving grace however...and that was in David Schumacher, our jazz teacher. He was hired part time my sophomore year and he made the choice to hold big band after school. There was this amazing amazing drum-set player, a hot shot freshmen who ended up getting a full ride to Berklee so as a concert percussionist I could not compare. Mr. Gray who now teaches at Masco, taught me the trombone and I played that in jazz band. The trombone section was made up of misfits...Laura Berube (bassoon) and Danielle Ripa (piano/flute) and myself. We rocked though and David was never afraid to let us just play loud notes to get better. David grew the program to have a full big band, jazz combo, blues band, and a kickn' middle school jazz band.
I remember my senior year getting into UMass Lowell and thinking it was the happiest moment of my life. I worked my butt off their performing in every ensemble possible. Most semesters I went over the maximum amount of credits allowed and had to get waivers. I did everything: concert band, marching band, wind ensemble, orchestra, percussion ensemble. In 2005 I spent the entire year getting my mallet chops up performing and traveling the country with the Spartans Drum Corps from Nashua. After that year, I began teaching the front ensemble of the Chelmsford marching band and percussion ensemble. I then taught a percussion ensemble at Lowell High School, volunteering two nights a week. I put an application in to have the Lowell High group perform at an All-State Concert Hour. I was in disbelief when we were selected....typically this is a time set aside for the top concert bands and choirs in the state to perform....Lexington, Belmont, Duxbury to name a few. The group played their hearts out for a full half-hour and my fondest memory was the standing ovation from the over 300 music teachers standing in the room. They did not stop clapping...some of the kids were in tears. Totally one of the best moments of my life.
Fast forward to a phone call I received from Zach Field. I was about to interview for a position at Triton when the phone rang. Throughout the years I would e-mail Zach and Ellen Hart my life updates and I had just done so a few weeks earlier. Zach asked me if I was looking for a full-time teaching job yet. My response...I am finishing my student teaching now and looking. He said two words I had hoped for probably since my freshmen year of high school: "Pentucket's Hiring!" Could it be true? The place where I got my education was looking for a music teacher? YES! I was so happy...I didn't even have the job yet and knew I would give it 200%. I remember interviewing...I actually had to come to four separate interviews between the principals and superintendent. The super was def. the hardest to sell as I think he wanted a more experienced teacher to come in. I did my politics and contacted the provost from UMass Lowell along with Michael LaCava who at the time was the MMEA President and also my student teaching observer. They both called the super and told him to hire me. My last meeting with him and he was sold! I got the job! I could not stop thinking of all the changes I wanted to make. I was e-mailing Ellen Hart lengthy lengthy e-mails that summer with many ideas. I don't know how she kept track. Through my time at UMass Lowell and all the clinics I went to at All-State, I knew the formula for creating an excellent music program. I was ready to go.
My first day at Pentucket was awesome. I saw a lot of my old teachers. It was Jonathan's first day as the new principal and Dave Evans came back to be an assistant principal. Everything felt right. With help from Ellen Hart, whenever I had an idea, the administration would say yes! We had about 32 kids in band that year..it was small but those kids played their hearts out and the music I gave them was not easy...specifically "Riverdance." That year was the last year of Pep Band with the crazy jackets (which I found quite ugly). We took the old uniforms out of storage and performed in the Boston St. Patrick's Day Parade. The kids loved it and since then we have slowly increased the marching aspect of the band to a point where it is a true positive ambassador of the school district.
Lisa Arsenault and her husband had a tragedy with the loss of their daughter which hit the community hard. I remember Julia performing in the Boston St. Pats Parade in our color guard. She was so excited that we were going to start a new color guard program. A few days before she passed I distinctly remember her walking into the middle school auditorium and walking to the front of the stage to ask me information about next year's color guard and then she walked away. My first year teaching was with many obstacles but losing a student is not something anyone or any family should have to go through. I was touched when the family asked if we could perform a piece with the Citations Drum Corps at Julia's service. Yuri, our star trumpet player and Julia's brother, performed was in the Citations. Out of all the pieces we owned in our library, "Amazing Grace" stuck out as most appropriate. Our small band at that point did not have a low brass section...we didn't even own a tuba. We only had one day to rehearse the piece alone and were playing it on the spot with the Citations at the service. Wow...this was not a dry eye in the house. Our kids were performing their hearts out, trying to make no mistakes with a piece they just got the day before. At the same time, they were listening to the brass sound to their right coming from the Citations....they were not used to this low end and the piece was epic. We were touched that the Arsenault family let us be part of this experience.
A lot has happened in four years. We've doubled the size of both the middle and high school bands, started marching band and a competitive winter guard, created a new private lesson program through community ed, brought in guest clinicians to work with the bands, traveled to Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C., and created interdisciplinary projects funded through cultural council grants. Through all of these changes, the students themselves have put forth the biggest change. They are the most dedicated, passionate, and musical people I know. They are excited to play, excited to learn, and yes, even excited to tune their instruments! Don't get me wrong, we had our tough times...when I knew we needed to make some changes and the students were nervous at first. This is really when the parents played a huge role in changing the program for the better. We would hold band parent meetings and I would put forth ideas to them about the program...a strategic plan if you would. They would make comments, we'd make changes to the ideas, and then we had ownership in the changes which they then helped enforce into their children. Roberta Homan, Cheryl Pearson, the Shaffers, Pauline Perris, and of course Lisa and Marty Arsenault.
This past year I served on a new subcommittee on the All-State board called "Future Symphony Hall Scholars." Though we only met a few times, the goals were clear. We wanted to create grant opportunities to communities that have little funding so that a population we are not currently serving at the All-State ensemble level will some day get it. It was through these discussions that I remembered teaching the percussion ensemble at Lowell High. That was when I started meandering job postings in Boston, Lawrence, and Lowell. Looking at these openings excited me greatly but at the same time it was tough to think about leaving Pentucket.
Fast forward to Memorial Day this year. Instead of having the Merrimack Valley Concert Band play at the West Newbury ceremony, I had the high school band play. That day we played in two ceremonies in Merrimac followed by a parade and ceremony in West Newbury. All of the performances were the best I have heard from the band. The color guard looked great, we had our new banner, drum majors were attentive and doing a great job leading and best of all the band looked and sounded great. I remember playing "Tribute to America" at the West Newbury ceremony. We were sitting down concert band style and the color guard was behind us performing their routine. We played the piece and when it ended there were a few seconds of silence and before clapping started...I heard many people saying "wow." A band alumni from the 1980's came up to me after and said that the band sounded amazing and better then when he was in it. The parade was where it also really hit me. At one point I just stood still on the sidewalk and watched the entire band walk by. This was when it hit me. The band is "good." They've grown in numbers, can play their hearts out, look great, and have excellent student leadership. Leaving Pentucket did not seem like such a reach now. All the efforts of everyone involved would not go to waste. knowing that whoever takes over will take it to its next level and enjoy the fruits of the growth this past year in the middle school program. My dream for Pentucket is to have 100 people in the band. If the numbers at the middle school stay the same as last year, you can bet that will happen in no time.
In the middle of the summer I received information about a new position in Lowell funded by Race to the Top grant money. The position was teaching music to at-risk students along with Cambodian refugees who just came to the states. I applied for the position and a few days after my interview was offered the job. Just hours after accepting it, I had the hardest conversation with the fine arts director, Michael Smith via the phone. The words I never thought would come out of my mouth did. "I've landed a new position." It was a very real conversation but Michael was supportive and knew I had been wanting to work in the urban setting which is where most of his teaching background was from.
Luckily, the administration let me take part in some of the interviews and the resume reading. Bobby Rathbone who hails from North Carolina and most recently the band director of East Providence High School in Rhode Island, has won the opportunity to take the program from where it is now to new heights. The other day I drove down to Providence and had coffee with Mr. Rathbone for about two hours. Everything he said to me made so much sense and on top of it, a lot of what he does and who he is reminds me of me. He is the perfect candidate as well because he tells some pretty awful jokes apparently (remember my story about Mr. Howard).
Next week we will both be teaching band camp together. North Andover did this when Aaron Goldberg left and it proved to make a successful transition, something that I was not accustomed to when I was a student in the Pentucket Band.
Last night I received a phone call that my application for a downtown loft in Lowell was approved. That was when it really hit me that I am leaving Pentucket. I hate to leave and don't want to and yet at the same time know that the new challenges ahead in Lowell are important and know that I can make a positive impact there. Bobby is going to do a spectacular job running this program and I can't wait to read future newspaper articles about their successes and visit at concerts.
There are way too many people to thank for giving me such a great opportunity to work at Pentucket. It will always hold a very special place in my heart and will always be in the back of my mind. Jen Solis and the Fine and Performing Arts Foundation along with Sharon Pacenka and all of her work and support of the private lesson program/middle school schedule change deserve shout-outs as well as they helped foster growth and success in the program.
Mr. B
-Band is the Best Class!
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