Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 6—For Avery Kerley, Amboy Junior High School's chorus, band and pep band director, the best place to be is in the stands.

Bands of America had hundreds, thousands, millions of high school kids pounding on drums or wailing on trumpets or tossing rifles in the air in its hands, and Schaumburg, Illinois, couldn’t hold them ...