The history of marching bands goes all the way back to the medieval era, when musicians were included in feudal armies, in order to maintain morale for the soldiers, as well as direct the troops. But ...

Wesley Green doesn’t toot his own horn but he does play a mean tenor drum in Southwestern Academy’s Marching Band. Green, a 10th-grader, doesn’t let his visual impairment get in the way of his dreams.

A color guard adds pageantry to a marching band with complicated marching patterns, flags, sabers, rifles or other heraldic accoutrements. In high school, the end of the marching season usually marks ...