Consonance.

CLASS reunions; MUSIC education; MUSIC teachers; STUDENTS; REUNIONS; MEETINGS; TEACHERS

The article presents the author's experience of a reunion of students of music. Fresh on the author's mind as he writes this is an experience he had in July. He was the guest of honor at the fortieth class reunion of the 1965 graduating class of Shawnee Mission West High in Overland Park, Kansas, where he taught. These "kids," many of whom were in the band or orchestra, are now fifty-eight years old. Some had already retired but still remembered experiences from when they were in band and orchestra. This group of students was special to the author for several reasons. One reason was that he had taught many of them for six years. When he first started teaching, they were in his junior high classes. When he transferred to the new high school, they were in the high school band and orchestra for three more years.