When director Terry Dahlgren’s 92 students who are in the Seaside High School Symphonic Band this year pick up their instruments to play Queen’s “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” the result is impressive.
Although the students fall across a spectrum of different skill levels, not one of them is superfluous in the band’s production of quality music, said Dahlgren, who has been the high school’s band director for 12 years.
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