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Show I ... ' y"- "-if ' ' J ' ' 1 RECITAL Cheryl Nelson, piano student of Mrs. Janet Thompson, of Bountiful, was awarded a scholarship to the Utah State University summer music clinic. The award was made during the sixth annual piano festival held at USU March 6. MISS NELSON was one of 17 piano students from the Bountiful area who attended the festival. The purpose'of the festival is to evaluate students in a , situation where stress and nervousness are eliminated. "THE educational purpose Piano students from Bountiful pause for a break during the Sixth Annual Piano Festival at USU. First row, 1 to r, are Elaine Nish and Carolyn Angus. Second row, Jackie Collett, Debbie Peay and Jayne Shum. of the festival is to have an unbiased opinion by an expert in the field of piano pedagogy. Students are not competing with each other before judges. They are being evaluated on the basis of their own talent. This brings the student before us without the nervousness and tension he has during a recital," comments Irving Wassermann, USU music department head and organizer or-ganizer of the festival. Wassermann feels an important im-portant part of the festival is the quality of the judges. "ALL OF our judges are very qualified. They have all appeared in concert a great number of times. It makes me proud to be able to provide judges of this quality. So often, this is not true of many piano festivals," Wassermann Was-sermann says. Judges for the festival were Irving Wassermann; Gary Amano, master's graduate of Juilliard now with the USU Music Department; Betty . Beecher, USU Music Department; Depart-ment; Joyce Jennings, master's graduate of Southern Methodist University Univer-sity now a private teacher; and Irene Peery, master's graduate of Juilliard, now a private teacher. |