Cincinnati.com
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA - Periodically, throughout his 25 years of teaching in Cincinnati Public Schools and starting the wildly popular Over-the-Rhine Steel Drum Band and Clark Montessori Steel Band, Bruce Weil would be interviewed by reporters.
They’d always ask, “Did the music completely change kids’ lives?” He’d always tell them, “No, it didn’t completely change kids’ lives.” They’d always write, “The music completely changed kids’ lives.”
Weil smiles and shakes his head at the thought.
“I’d like to say they did better in school because of it, they had better job opportunities,” he says. “But really, my greatest hope was that it enriched their lives and gave them a greater foundation to build on. And what that was, I couldn’t even hypothesize about.”
But those who danced in the aisles at steel band concerts, and watched Weil’s students from neighborhoods across the city take a bow in the spotlight, surely can.
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