The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Band is putting on their final concert of the year. Organizers say the students just came off a successful jazz tour and Friday night's concert will be the classical version of that. The event is titled "Our Reply" and the theme comes from a Leonard Bernstein quote.
"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devoted than ever before." - Leonard Bernstein
The musicians of the MSD band aren't letting the deadly shooting that shook their school stop them from continuing their music.
"The band program there has always been a top notch program and they've put out musicians and musical experiences for the students that they're extremely proud of. I think this concert is extremely important to the students and the teachers because it's a statement of their continued work to keep doing that and to not be stopped by an atrocious event that some others might be inclined to take a break and have a pause from the music," said Craig Pugatch MSD Class of 96' and MSD National Alumni Organizer.
“Our Reply”
Concert Date: Friday, June 1, 2018
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Church by the Glades, 400 Lakeview Drive, Coral Springs, 33071
Tickets and information are available at:
https://msdband.ticketleap.com/ourreply/
Proceeds will support the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Band, the Alex Schachter Scholarship Fund and the Gina Montalto Memorial Foundation.