Emphasis Preaching Journal
Mr. Holland's Opus is a...
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Mr. Holland's Opus is a touching movie about a music teacher who spent 35 years
teaching students the joy of music. Due to cuts in the school budget, his department was
eliminated. [It is always the arts to go first and sports last, why is that?] After the final
day of school was completed, Mr. Holland, his wife, and son returned to the school to
remove his things upon his forced retirement. Mr. Holland had been rumored to be
completing a musical opus that was to have been presented at Carnegie Hall; due to