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Show Davis High Schools To Take Part In Choral Festival Granite, Orem, Bear River and Bonneville. DR. HOWARD Swan, professor-emeritus of music at Occidental College in Los Angeles and also of California State University-Fullerton, will serve as adjudicator. Afternoon and evening performances per-formances are both open to the public free of charge, Dr. Thompson said. Five Davis County high schools almost half of those participating have been invited in-vited to participate in the annual Intercollegiate Choral Festival to be hosted by the University of Utah department depart-ment of music on Feb. 17. THE FIVE schools and their directors include Bountiful, Rod Davis; Clearfield, Les Davis; Woods Cross, J. Evan Bean; Davis, Georgia Fairbanks, Fair-banks, and Layton, Joseph Everton. This marks the first year that high school chorale groups have been invited to participate partici-pate in the college-based event, said Dr. Ed Thompson, chairman of the U. of U. music department, who said it was a "signal honor" for the high school musicians to sing. ANOTHER FIRST for the 1981 festival will be its location in Salt Lake City's new Symphony Sym-phony Hall. Under the schedule released by Dr. Thompson, the high school groups will perform from 1-5 p.m. While there is no official competition or rating in' olved, the adjudicator will select an outstanding high school group to perform for the college chorales in the evening of the day-long event. THE COLLEGES will sing at 7:30 p.m. and will feature at least one chorale from USU, Weber State College, Southern South-ern Utah State College and U. of U. Other participating high schools include Weber, West, |