VINELAND - There will be no encore for Vineland High School band director William McDevitt after the annual instrument spring concert on Thursday. After a career spanning three decades, McDevitt takes ...

Back when Hal Linden was Harold Lipshitz, a Jewish kid from the Bronx, he dreamed of becoming a big-band leader. “So I felt I had to change my name,” says Linden, best-known as the stalwart Jewish ...

died on his birthday, Sunday June 12. Barney was born in Longmeadow and attended Enfield High School. At the age of 17, he began traveling across the country as a musician with "Big Band" era ...

File Photo: Derrek Vaughn | The Valdosta Daily TimesMichael Thomas resigned as Valdosta High School band director earlier this year and will take a job as an assistant band director next school year ...

Director since 1990, he will be remembered for his devotion to his students. Barney Edward Smart, remembered by his Hampton University colleagues as an ambassador for the school and an inspiration to ...