Maurice Arrington is more than the current band director at William J. Christian K-8 School. For the past seven years, he has been a crowd favorite as Saxophone Santa during Birmingham City Schools’s All City Music Festival.
About six years ago Dr. Debora Mayes (BCS Education Department Coordinator) asked Arrington to dress up as Santa and play his horn. The director said he was “apprehensive at first,” but said he came around to the idea “for the kids.”
“It was exciting and fulfilling all at the same time,” said Arrington, on that first performance. “I loved it when the children joined in and began singing and clapping along. It’s the loudest part of the concert. The crown really gets me going.”…