Show High Schools to toi I i Hold Orchestra Contest in May Great Development Found I in School During Past Year NEW Dec 29 The Tho national national na nn na- na lIonal contest of or high school or orchestras orchestras or- or will wUl be bo held In Iowa City la Ia May 17 and 18 next it was announced today by C. C M M. I. I Tremaine director national lal bureau for tor the advancement nd of ot music This will wUl willbe bo be the first national l meeting of school orchestras Mr Ir Tremaine said and it will bo be held under the auspices auspicE's of ot tho the school of music of ot the State University of ot Iowa E E. II H. Wilcox assistant director of the thc school has active charge of the tho con test arrangements In which the national na na- na bureau for tor th tho th advancement ad of music Is cooperating It is eXI expected that about a score of the finest school orchestras Inthe in inthe inthe the country will take part with an average strength of sixty members Tho The contesting orchestras will be made up of ot those who won first place In classes A and B In their respective states and at Iowa City orchestras in the first class will vilt compete fo for the championship trophy trophy trophy tro tro- tro- tro phy awarded by the national bureau bu bu- bu- bu reau The Thc school winning the trophy trophy trophy tro tro- tro- tro phy three times will acquire permanent permanent permanent per per- manent title to It A trophy also will be bp awarded to the winners In class B. B The rules governing the contest are based on those under which the national school band contests contests contests con con- tests have been held annually since 1924 At the same time he made known i ithe the date dato of or the national orchestra contest Mr Tremaine announced the issuance of the 1929 year book on state and anel national school or orchestras orchestras orchestras or- or which shows their great development throughout the coun coun- try The bureau is now cooperating ing In the holding of orchestra contests contests contests con con- tests Ir In fifteen states and the national national na na- event will serve to give the school orchestra movement tho the prominence due It and to mark to-mark mark it as equal in importance to the annual meetings of the school bands Participant orchestras In the na national national na- na contest will be required to play playa a composition assigned in each class and a second number to be selected from a list of or twenty named by the committee on Instrumental instrumental instrumental mental affairs of the musIc supervisors supervisors' supervisors supervisors' supervisors supervisors' super super- visors' visors national conference The assigned assigned as assigned as- as signed number for tor class A is Beethoven's Beethoven's Beethoven's Bee Bee- Egmont Overture and for class B B. B Hartley's Hadley May Day Dance The dates for tor the orchestra national national national na na- na- na contest have been so arlan arranged ed that members of or the orchestra who also are members of the school bands will wUl willbe be he able to attend the national school band contest in Denver May olay 23 Iowa City is considered an ideal selection as the place of meeting for the orchestra national contest as the In that state has had remarkable development Iowa having had eighty school orchestras In its 1928 state contest |