7th post! Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Dallas Brass!

Last Tuesday on October 21, the Dallas Brass came into town to perform with the Edina Varsity and Concert band. If you are not familiar with the Dallas Brass, they are a group of six men who tour around playing brass instrument, and teaching clinics. They are very famous, have played in front of a few presidents, and have been around for over 25 years. This talented group consists of a two trumpet players, one tuba, one French horn, a drummer, and one trombonist who is the founder and leader of the band. They have become one of America’s foremost musical ensembles. So when they came here to Edina, we performed a concert with them. In the programs that were handed out, there was a long article about how the Dallas brass was originally founded, so I read it. The crazy fact is that the idea of the Dallas Brass came from the Edina band concert in the 1970. When the trombonist, Michael Levine, was a junior in high school, he drove to the Edina Pops concert, and watched the band perform. He stated that it was the concert that changed his life. He grew up in St. Louis Park and wasn’t that interested in music until his junior year in High school, when he randomly went to an Edina “Pops” concert, and it blew him away. From that moment on, he knew that he wanted to play music for a profession. He said that he left that auditorium on such a high, that 38 years later, he still isn’t completely down from it. He has seen hundreds of bands, but non like Edina band. Edina has a strong influence in the Dallas Brass. This article really inspired me, because it shows how lucky I am to be in the Edina band program. Since I want to do music as a career, I am going to have a greater advantage rather than others since I went to Edina. This article and concert changed my perspective on music, and influenced me even more into to doing what I love, playing music. Hopefully one day, I will be able to inspire someone else into doing what they love.