Music to Our Ears: Alisa Leffler & Aaron Lay

Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with longtime music educator, Alisa Leffler and Band Director, Aaron Lay. As you can imagine, sitting down with young people for a living, asking them to share with me what matters to them—what is important in their school lives, in their friendships, and in their dreams for the future, and then shaping those stories into magazine-sized windows into their worlds is a pretty great gig. But what you might not imagine is how often one of those kids says to me how important music is to them. I’ve sat down with hundreds of students of all ages to talk with them about what matters in their world and, almost without exception, music enters the conversation. In fact, for the upcoming Connections47 Magazine, I had the distinct honor of speaking with a young man who credits much of his very happiness to the time he spends in school with one of today’s guests—Mrs. Leffler. So, music definitely matters to kids, and we are so fortunate to have this dream team here at Benton47.