As Lesley Moffat begins her 39th and final year as a band director, she sits down with the person who helped start the whole journey: her high school band director, Bruce Caldwell.

Who also happens to be her dad.

Bruce began teaching in 1964, and Lesley grew up immersed in the world of high school band. Football games, concerts, rehearsals, trips, fundraisers, and band students who felt like surrogate older siblings were simply part of family life. By the time Lesley became one of Bruce's students herself, the band room had already become the kind of place she knew she wanted to create for her own students someday.

In this episode of Band Director Boot Camp, father and daughter look back across two generations of music education and discover that while the profession has changed dramatically, some of the most important  ...