East High band director Todd Barton understands how hard it is to learn an instrument.
“I started playing in third grade, on a saxophone, and boy, I hated it,” he said.
He stuck with it though. He had a great teacher, and slowly, he started to like it. By seventh grade he was having so much fun that he decided he wanted to be a band director when he grew up. That was nearly half a century ago, but he still gets excited when he talks about teaching…