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A smile stretches across senior Drum Major Kathleen Scarola’s face as she stands on top of a tall podium and conducts the Pride of Port Chester.

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As a fourth-grader at King Street Elementary School, Kathleen Scarola spent several afternoons in her bedroom, practicing segments of Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, often referred to as “New World Symphony,” as she was learning to play the flute. It was repertoire assigned by her music teacher at the time, Mike Miceli.

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