From fourth grade all the way through high school, Russ Grazier, co-founder and CEO of the Portsmouth Music & Arts Center, learned under Muchemore as a student at the old Portsmouth Junior High and later Portsmouth High School. For about four decades, Grazier said, Muchemore, who taught at both schools, wrote all the music for the high school marching band himself. Every single piece of music he composed was specifically designed to cater to the strengths of each student in the ensemble at that point in time.
“He was just a very dynamic musician, a wonderful jazz musician,” Grazier said.
For years, Muchemore and Bill Elwell, another music teacher at Portsmouth High School, led the Clipper Marching Band in a regime that left a lasting impression on students like Grazier. When in the marching band, Grazier said he and his peers traveled with Muchemore and Elwell to Virginia and Washington D.C. for national competitions.
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Atlanta Magazine
60 years of covering Atlanta: The 2010s
March 2019 The first time royalty appeared on an Atlanta cover? Perhaps.
For our January 2021 issue, in honor of our 60th anniversary year, we dug through our archives to present a snapshot of the magazine during each of our six decades. We discovered groundbreaking work, inspiring stories, and, yes, some errors in judgement. Here’s what we found:
The ’10s in 6 Quotes
The city booms after the bust, the South more powerfully confronts its past, and Stacey Abrams plans a progressive revolution
August 2015
Neighbors embrace graffiti at Krog Street Tunnel but organize teams to paint over tags a few blocks west at the Boulevard Tunnel. The city has employed a police officer to infiltrate graffiti circles and make arrests but welcomes artists from around the world to paint murals on facades.
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