Honoring Yesterday's Band

Abstract

Readers who enjoy reliving the past-or, at least one group's past-will be especially interested in this article by Mrs. Sherman, who says: “In attending, with my teacher-husband, numerous high-quality concerts over New York State, it strikes me rather forcibly that there is abroad in the land, now affluent and progressive, a disregard for the less superior, but equally earnest, endeavors which have been made in the past to bring music into our schools. Moreover, there still exist in many areas, schools, pupils, and teachers who as yet lack the advantages of the larger communities. This article is a tribute to their efforts, also, since, by virtue of economics and geography, not all can produce Grade A outfits-a classification which is all too often taken as the sole measure of ability and effort.