Mount Pleasant Magazine Nov/Dec 2018

52 www.MountPleasantMagazine.com | www.ILoveMountPleasant.com | www.BestofMP.com “built around upperclassmen having opportunities to lead directly.” There are performance and part leaders, and areas where students can lead abound: service, field, logistics, electronics, cleanup and as instructors. “I think that every student can have an impact from music,” proclaimed Lambert. “The spatial reasoning, the cognitive effects, the imagination that is needed in music completely change the way that people see the world.” PURSUIT OF PERFECTION If you don’t have a direct connection to it, why should you care about the WHS band and invest time, money or energy in it or its feeder schools? Johnston observed that as much as Charleston has earned a national reputation as a destination city, Wando is “known nationwide in the band community. … Additional funding can catapult us to the next level.” Lambert commented that as a community member, it’s “the idea of seeing young people achieve greatness” and “perform at a level beyond their years.” But you don’t stop climbing when you’ve already made it this far, and Lambert knows the WHS band must keep improving. “We still have some roads to travel, and we hope Mount Pleasant will follow,” Lambert concluded. feature Photo by Stacy Mercorelli.