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Harold Hill Was Right About Shakespeare

Faux Bandmaster and Inventor of ‘Think System’ Pedagogy Had The Best Thought Ever About School Bands And Life

I always think there’s a band, kid.

— Professor Harold Hill in The Music Man

The death of Westport band educator Jack Adams and news today that the New Hampshire band teacher of a Westport friend's son is about to win only the second Grammy music educator award really has me thinking about the role of music education in forming the lives of many Americans over the decades and centuries. So I wrote about it on my essay blog. Read it here.