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...Saints Go Marchin' In. A number of his classmates and a few of his teachers at the Choate Rosemary Hall school are also struggling, hoping to make some sense of the industrial-looking instruments, which were brought to Connecticut from the South Bronx by members of the Alexander Burger Intermediate School 139 senior steel band...
Choate is 80 miles northeast and a world away from the Burger school, an oasis of learning located in a neighborhood of burned-out buildings, where sporadic gunfire is a regular event. "We have people in Mercedes and Jaguars from Connecticut and New Jersey out in front of the school buying drugs," says Tom Minicucci, the director of the senior steel band. "It is like the bazaars at Marrakesh...
...Burger, one of New York City's magnet schools for the performing and creative arts, attracts talented students from outside the boundaries of the impoverished school district. The school offers classes in drama, choral music, orchestra, dance and, of course, the steel drum...
Lizbeth and her 21 classmates from the steel band -- the city's only such school-based musical ensemble -- are in Wallingford to give a concert during Choate's Multicultural Day. Choate first became interested in the group last year when admissions director Andrew Wooden, 36, was visiting Burger to interview three potential students. "As I was walking through the hall, I heard the steel drum and was mesmerized by it," Wooden recalls. "When I got back to Choate we arranged for them to come here. This is a pretty sedate group, and the Burger kids had the place rocking...
...concert is the main event of the day. Twelve hundred students, faculty members and friends fill the gym and squat on the floor as the Burger band members take the stage. "I won't know if you like it unless you make some noise," Minicucci announces as he tells the audience to move closer. The band starts with Love Is in the Air and Minicucci quickly works up a sweat as he bounces, points, claps and raises his hands to the beat of the music. The players wield their mallets in unison, pounding out a strident, pulsing beat. A number...