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Show OTES'AN)THCT( On Tuesday, Feb. 17 the Davis County School District orchestra teachers will have their in-service meeting at Kaysville Junior High. DAVID THAYNE, one of this year's chairmen and director of orchestra students in the Layton area, has arranged for a guest lecturer. It will be Robert Bowden, director of the Mormon Youth Symphony. Dr. Bowden will share suggestions on "How we can best prepare our students to qualify for the Mormon Youth Symphony or college orchestras." The orchestra program is the most difficult dif-ficult area of music education in which to produce a quality program. STUDENTS MUST start at an earlier age than band or choir students in order to play high school literature. The string instruments in-struments are more difficult to master and less popular with public school students. This year the Davis County schools have 133 string students compared to 114 during the last school year. However, in the junior highs, the number is down to 378 from the 407 listed last year. FOLLOWING IS a list of string students at each of our secondary schools. High schools: Bountiful 17, Clearfield 21, Davis 36, Layton 31, Viewmont 11 and Woods Cross 17. JUNIOR HIGH schools: Bountiful 46, Centerville 25, Central 57, Kaysville 60, Millcreek44, North Davis 43, North Layton . 20, South Davis 64, and Sunset 19. Davis County does have a string program in all of the secondary schools and in all elementary schools with fifth and sixth grade students. Many of the large districts are not quite this fortunate. IN APRIL and May, when we have the orchestra festivals, the better wind players from the band will join with the string players at most of our schools to give the orchestra students some full orchestra experience. |