When Edgar Flores was a little kid, he remembers watching the Elsie Allen marching band play in the Luther Burbank Rose Parade. “They were amazing to see walking down those streets,” he said. He ...

Allen Band Director Blane Hinton with a few of the 750-plus band students. From left: Sarah Rodenbusch, Katie Hsu, Allen Foster, Lauren Love, Gayathri Krishna, Sandra Yu and Matt Miller. The Allen ...

Randy Butler’s trumpet always sounds a little too sharp. “It looks horrible and I can’t tune it because the slide doesn’t move,” said Butler, 16, a trumpet section leader in the Allen High School ...

More than 800 kids crowded the field when the Allen Escadrille, the biggest high school marching band in the U.S., performs. But it used to be that there was always one student left out. Senior Milka ...