Best bands in San Antonio(The city, not the competition)

[MadisonBandMan1]

 

MacArthur made Area in 2018

That post was before 2018. I commend them for their improvements and definitely bit my tongue.

[MadisonBandMan1]

2018 season

1: Reagan

2: CTJ

3: Churchill

4: Madison (Soon we will see 4 big NEISD finalist BOA bands)

5: MacArthur

6: O'Connor

7: Brandies

8: Brennan

9: Taft

10: Stevens

Thank you.

[Dog885]

That post was before 2018. I commend them for their improvements and definitely bit my tongue.

Oh, silly me. I thought this was a brand new topic, I should really look at the dates.

[MadisonBandMan1]

Oh, silly me. I thought this was a brand new topic, I should really look at the dates.

Haha it’s okay. I’m still biting my tongue over those comments anyways and know it was quite immature for me to say that. Oh how much I’ve changed in a year.

[MadisonBandMan1]

2018 season

1: Reagan

2: CTJ

3: Churchill

4: Madison (Soon we will see 4 big NEISD finalist BOA bands)

5: MacArthur

6: O'Connor

7: Brandies

8: Brennan

9: Taft

10: Stevens

I actually think Brandeis could overtake O’Connor for at least a couple years as O’Connor recovers from a complete director turnover. I won’t be surprised to see them come storming back though. Much respect for all NISD programs.

[Dr Bill]

I am Dr Bill, the (perhaps only) academic researcher interested in the “real life” Professor Harold Hill (a fictional character created by Meredith Willson whose story matched almost perfectly his lifelong friend, “Professor” Bob Leach). In the mid 1930’s, Bob suddenly left his home in central Iowa for what were truly wrenching personal reasons, having to do with the disappearance of his father along the train tracks after a “gig” to which Bob had invited his father (Durwood), a locally renowned violinist. Bob was a famous conductor in a town thirty miles east of Ackley and Bob had also hired a pair of teens in Ackley for that Thanksgiving (1934) gig. The teens dropped Durwood across from the train tracks in a snowstorm and Durwood was not seen until early in 1935 when a pair of railroad employees saw a black case poking out of a snowbank, dug it up to find a violin, then dug more to locate Durwood’s frozen body. Since “Professor” Bob was one of the two most renowned band leaders in Iowa (the other being his other lifelong Iowa friend, Karl King), Bob leaving Iowa and his entire life and family to go to San Antonio to take over some band there seemed a mystery until I had actually traveled to Iowa and read in the Ackley Iowa town paper archives from 1933-34 about the strange disappearance with headlines like: “where is Durwood?”

Professor Bob moving to San Antonio (and eventually to northern Houston where he started selling musical instruments to Texas school band programs and bring a tremendously good clinician to the best school bands in Texas) is how Bob became known in Texas as the real-life Professor Harold Hill (a fact which the elitists in the northeastern U.S., and fraudulent publications like Wikipedia, have continuously rejected due to somewhat incomplete documentation and an arrogant attitude towards “backwoods” places like Iowa and Texas).

When did Bob Leach start at the community band in San Antonio - I am thinking it was sometime in 1935?