DRUM CORPS FROM SOUTH BOSTON PLAYS FOR CHAMPIONSHIP TONIGHT

From: The Boston Globe | Date: August 12, 2000| Author: Jennifer Walsh, Globe Correspondent | Copyright information

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - For Thomas Spataro, a senior at Boston College, summer break does not involve vacations, school, or a seasonal job. Instead, he paid $600 to work intensively outdoors for three months, 13 hours a day, every day.

It's all for the love of music and the Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps.

Spataro, along with 127 other high school and college students, has been training all summer for one thing: to compete in the final round of the Drum Corps International comp...

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