DES MOINES, Iowa — The New Horizons Band might be the best idea we heard this year. Their free Christmas concert at the Valley View Retirement home on the east side of Des Moines might be the second.
For those of you scratching your heads, we’ll let the band explain.
“The group,” says director Karla Killinger, “is for people who haven’t played an instrument since they were kids, or have always wanted to play an instrument.”
“We rehearse once a week,” says drummer, Bill Throckmorton, “and that’s like my happy night.”
“We all loved it at some point,” says Rita Patterson, who started playing the French horn 68 years ago. “And then for whatever reason we didn’t get to do it for a while.”
“What I started falling in love with was the mottos,” says Killinger. “‘Your best is good enough.’”
“It’s still in your system somewhere,” Throckmorton says. “You just have to find it and tweak it out a little bit and it all comes back.”
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