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Show Local Students Rate High at St. George Music Festival Cedar City took the spotlight Saturday Sat-urday when approximately seventy-five seventy-five students of the local junior and senior high school music departments depart-ments participated in the annual music festival held in St. Georje under the sponsorship of the Washington Wash-ington County school district and the Dixie junior college. Fifteen hundred students, repr3-yenting repr3-yenting the various southern Utah and southeastern Nevada high schools, participated in the festival with the local students being among the best, according to those who drove to St. George for the event. The Cedar City schools, represented by the junior high school band, the senior high school band, the high school orchestra, and six individual individ-ual contestants under the very able direction of A. B. Larson, made a splendid showing with all participants partici-pants performing in an excellent manner. While the official ratings and comments made on the various units by the judges have not been made public, it is understood under-stood that all comments made were very favorable, with the senior high school band, the orchestra and four-of four-of the six individual contestants being recommended for participation participa-tion in the national regional music festival to be held in Ogden on May 8, 9. and 10. Whether or not plans are being made to send these students to represent re-present the local school at the fes-tivel fes-tivel in Ogden, has not been announced, an-nounced, but it would seem the opportunity op-portunity is much too great to be allowed to slip by. Only those high school bands and orchestras of superior su-perior rating are recommended for the Ogden event, and the fact that Cedar City was fortunate enough to qualify for the event is a distinct dis-tinct honor. Much work has gone into the training of these students and much effort and money has been ' expended by the schools and townspeople towns-people in securing uniforms for the band members that compare very favorably with any in the state, regardless of the size of the school. The fact, too, that these recommendations recom-mendations should come during the first year Cedar City has had an official high school, siaks volumes for the type of work which Is being carried on in the Cedar City schools. Several prominent townspeople have expressed the hope that the school officials will decide to send the band and orchestra to the Ogden Og-den meet and have also expressed their willingness to cooperate wholeheartedly whole-heartedly in the venture, should It be given favorable consideration. It is felt by a large number of Cedar City residents that in addition to the valuable experience to be gained gain-ed by the students themselves from participation in such a mammoth musical festival, Cedar City would stand to gain considerably by demonstrating de-monstrating to the state as a whole the high type of educational achievements achieve-ments to be found in this section. o. |