1. That they didn't know the son was deaf until he was well past one year old. Hearing tests are usually performed on newborns, and certainly by pediatricians during routine visits.
2. I've seen a lot of high school bands and none of them ever sounded close to as good as this one.
3. I timed Mr. Holland's American Symphony, and it was all of 3-1/2 minutes long.
Remember the time frame of this movie: we start in about 1964/65; Cole is born around 1965/66. Here's a table of when, in the US, hearing tests on infants began to be standard practice: https://www.infanthearing.org/legislative/summary.html. In the 1960s, this wasn't normal practice. So I cut them some major slack here.
With due respect, the high school bands in our area were very good; however: I add that we grew up in a large city, in about the same time period as the start of this movie (I'm old...!), and that, during this time, in my area, all the arts enjoyed a lot of concentration. So for all of us, our mileage may vary.
Yep, it's short, but again, I cut slack, since, really, do we want to sit through 20 minutes of music when the story is basically over? In head canon, perhaps they excerpted the most complete section of the work.
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