‘Mr. Music’ back for Mt. Prospect school parade

For four of the last five years, Ken Frizane has entertained the children and staff from Forest View Elementary School in Mount Prospect during their annual costume parade on Halloween.

The children parade up one side of the block and down the other. Parents line the street with their video cameras and the children show off their costumes.

The Frizanes have lived on Deborah Lane for over 30 years and their daughter attended Forest View Elementary in the 1980s. Being a brass musician, he decided that the parade needed a little music and brought out his horns and amplifier to play for the parade as it passed his house. It was such a hit with the children, teachers and parents that he did it for the next three years of parades.

Then last year, he ended up with back surgery on Oct. 31, and his wife put out a sign on the lawn that “Mr. Music” was in the hospital. The local trick-and treat-kids said that everyone missed him.

This year Frizane was back again and music filled the street. The teachers and kids cheered as they passed by with their classes as he played “Bugler’s Holiday” and “El Capitan” for 15 minutes.

Frizane is a retired engineer, who also taught math and computer science at Roosevelt University. He has always loved brass music, directs several brass ensembles and also plays in the Mount Prospect Community Band.

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