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Russ Kramer, a musician who heads the Mason City high school band programme, says that music, and a stubborn spirit of optimism which it helps to underpin, are still central to life in the town.
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School singers and their jazz band provided campaign music, and students acted as television moderators, conducting interviews and reporting electoral results by fixing either a blue or a red pin to a map of the United States.
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He didn't start in a music school or even a regular old jazz band.
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The Band Service Memorial Room at the Royal Marines School of Music includes boards listing the names of all 448 musicians who died.
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This might include, for example, decorations for the school bulletin board, pizza for the traveling chess club and sheet music for the band.
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Mr. Yerawadekar, who leads the band Low Mentality, teaches a rock-music program at the Bank Street School for Children in the Morningside Heights section of the city.
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He's also the mariachi director at a program run by a nonprofit out of the Brooklyn Music School that began last year, and he started an all-female mariachi band in February.
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"The deep study of this music has affected our lives, " said Jeffery Leonard, director of the band of Lexington High School in Massachusetts.
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