Jack Holt, a popular band teacher at Wauconda High School, is being remembered as a kind spirit who grew the program and inspired students.
Holt, who lived in Arlington Heights, joined Wauconda High School to teach instrumental music in 2011. He instructed several music classes and conducted more than seven types of bands, according to Principal Dan Klett. For several years, Holt also conducted the pit orchestra for the musical theater productions, including the most recent event Monty Python's"Spamalot," which wrapped Nov. 19.
Dortwegt recalled Holt's annual over-the-top enthusiastic demonstration of how to play the first three notes of the"Star Spangled Banner" as an example of teaching simple things in an exciting way.
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