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Who says jocks don't mix with the music program?

Publication: The Horn Book Magazine
Publication Date: 01-SEP-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Who says jocks don't mix with the music program?(Trouble Spots)(Short story)

Article Excerpt
I love music. I listened to Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians sing Off We Go into the Wild Blue Yonder back in the late forties and early fifties on those 78 rpm records that weighed about twelve pounds apiece. On radio until I was in the fifth grade, and on television after that, I couldn't wait for "The Hit Parade" each Saturday night.

So why was I so hard on music teachers?

Mr. Kelly was my target--a talented teacher and musician with less patience than he might have needed to deal with me and my junior high friends. Kelly was a John Phillip Sousa sort of music director, military in his approach....

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