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Show Marching band cavalcade Oct. 4th might include anything from cow bells to bird whistles," he said. Lamoureux said that the band contest will be similar to one held last October at SUSC and to one held three summers ago that drew contestants from high schools as far away as Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin. A cavalcade of bands featuring nine of the finest high school marching mar-ching bands in the state will be held Oct. 4 at Southern Utah State College. 1 Competition between the bands will begin at 2 p.m. at Thunderbird Stadium. Tickets will cost $2 for adults, $1 for students (including SUSC students with activity cards) or $5 per familiy. "Nothing captures the essence of a crisp autumn day like a band contest, especially a corps style marching contest," said Joseph G. Lamoureux, SUSC director of bands. Each band will be judged by three marching mar-ching band specialists. Two of them, the audio and visual judges, will be situated in the press box high above the competition. com-petition. The marching and maneuvering judge will be on the field with the performers. Bands from Davis, Tooele, Wasatch, Springville, Cedar, Valley, Delta, Olympus and Lehi schools will compete in the cavalcade of bands, Professor Lamoureux said. Trophies will be awarded to the winners at the end of the contest. "In the corps style of marching," Lamoureux explained, "each unit is an important, integrated part of the total performances." per-formances." In corps style marching, mar-ching, he said, band members use a glide step rather than the cassavant style or high-knee step used by other marching bands. Corps style marching also includes auxiliary units such as tall and short flags and a rifle corps. "Another major difference dif-ference between corps style units and regular marching bands is the drum line," Lamoureus said. "In corps style marching, the drum line is tuned, it is developed for tonal sound." "It isn't at all unusual for a drum line to include several snare, tenor and tuned base drums, tri-toms, tri-toms, a tympany, marching marimbas, bells, cymbals and various sound makers called 'traps' which |