Thank you to all the band directors who dedicate their careers to teaching music.  What you do everyday is important and it matters.  

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It was a band directors who... 

• stayed after school to give me my first clarinet lessons

• connected me with my first private clarinet instructor

• spent time after school letting me perform mock auditions for them

• brought a signed clarinet bell from my favorite professional clarinetist all the way from Oregon back to Missouri

• let me tag along every Thursday night to play in my first orchestra

• helped guide me through the college audition process

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It is band directors who... 

• welcome me to work with their clarinet students

• make the trip to watch my college recitals

• keeps in touch long after I have graduated

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Now, I get to teach my own clarinet students and pursue my own clarinet endeavors.  I wouldn't be here without you. Thank you!

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