Round Top Brass Band Celebrates 50 Years

When Ronny Sacks and George Koudelka conceived the idea of starting a brass band in 1971, little did they realize, 50 years later this band would still be in existence. The Round Top Brass Band started with a nucleus of music students from Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State) and supplemented with other area musicians. In the late 1960s George Koudelka was teaching percussion at Southwest Texas State and three of the original Round Top Brass Band members were enrolled in his percussion class at the university, Ronny Sacks, Larry Schmidt, and Herbert Cresswell.

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