Pandemonium performed during the Dallas Wind Symphony’s Mardi Gras Celebration at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Downtown Dallas on Feb.12. It was the first time that a high school band...

Every morning, the band hall fills with the chattering of friends, the laughter of buddies, and the textbooks of those doing last-minute homework. However, on the morning of Oct. 8, those sounds were silenced...