Pets bond with their owners. Siblings bond with each other. But there’s no bond quite like the one between a great teacher and his students. Unless it’s the bond between musician and musician.
Those are the bonds that filmmaker Barry Rubinow explores in his 2022 documentary “Banded Together: The Boys from Glen Rock High.”
It was already screened at the Montclair Film Festival. But it will be getting a special homecoming salute on Thursday, March 30, at 7 p.m. at the Glen Rock High School auditorium, under the auspices of the Arts Council of Glen Rock. A showing of the movie will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker and many of the participants.
“The response from the town has just been overwhelming,” said Rubinow, class of 1974, who had been thinking for 50 years about the tight bond between Mr. Sielski, Glen Rock’s school band instructor, and a bunch of precociously talented kids he mentored in the early 1970s who went on to become top-grade professional musicians — some of whose names you know.
