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Show Plans Mapped For Regional Music Contest Final details are complete for the regional conference of high school music students which will be held at ' Provo high school Saturday, March 14. The "winners "win-ners in all ocal and instrumental instrumen-tal events will represent their respective schools at the state contest in Price on April 19, 20 and 21. Ten schools have already entered en-tered the contest: American Fork, Pleasant Grove, Provo, Springville, Spanish Fork, Pay-son, Pay-son, and Nephi high schools and the farrer and Dixon junior high schools Contests Slated The entire competitive program will take place on the high school campus. Solo work, both instrumental instru-mental and vocal, will start at 8 o'clock in the morning preceding preced-ing orchestra and larger singing groups. At the close of the con- ! tests in the early evening all bands will meet in front of the high school and march to a designated desig-nated place just east of the business busi-ness section of town. Here a mass band will be organized to play ensemble numbers, after which the bands will march back to school. The day's events will be topped off by a dance in the high school gymnasium. "The committee planning the conference is anxious to have this event as nearly as possible a purely educational event, and to hold the competitive idea to the very minimum," says J. C. Moffitt, principal of the Provo high school, hosts of the event. All events are to be timed, allowing al-lowing orchestra 25 minutes; instrumental in-strumental solos, six minutes ; ensemble groups, ten minutes; vocal solos, six minutes; girls' glee, fifteen minutes; boys' glee and mixed groups, twelve minutes; min-utes; and girls' trio, mixed quartet, quar-tet, and male quartet, seven minutes min-utes each. |