Bill Kisinger takes a bow after 32 years conducting Lafayette Citizens Band

Bill Kisinger, already conducting bands as a faculty member at Purdue, reluctantly stepped up to conduct the Lafayette Citizens Band in 1989. He made the job his own for more than three decades

The Lafayette Citizens Band (Photo provided)

In the mid-‘80s, Bill Kisinger joined the Lafayette Citizens Band almost as a busman’s holiday.

“I wanted to play,” said Kisinger, a baritone player who was well into a nearly four-decade career as a faculty member working with the All-American Marching Band and other ensembles at Purdue.

In 1989, when the Lafa…