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Show ' High School Band Judged Best in ! Tri-State Contest The Cedar City high school laand, under the direction of A. ' Larson, reached new heights Saturday Sat-urday when the snappy, well-trained well-trained group, walked off with top honors at the University of Utah Band Day in Salt Lake City. -' The Cedar band was Judged the foest of thirty-five school bands gathered from three states, Utah, Idaho and Nevada. The performance of the band and its selection as the best of them all, gained for Mr. Larson's determined students the right to perform at half-time of the University Uni-versity of Utah-University of Denver football game that evening. eve-ning. It also won a beautiful 28 Inch gold trophy presented by the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce to the winners of the three state contest. The contest was held at the "University football stadium Saturday Sat-urday afternoon, with each of the thirty-five bands given ex-actly ex-actly six minutes in which to maneuver. At the close of the afternoon of marching a selection of the best in the entire group was made by a committee composed com-posed of all band leaders and lRoy J. Robertson, head of the "University music department, with the Cedar City group attracting at-tracting the greatest number of Totes to win the coveted honor. Professor Robertson stated that the near perfect precision marching of the Cedar City band, combined with excellent playing of the music selected, marked it the best of all that participated. Other contributing factors were originality, and the fact that the Cedar City group played almost continuously while carrying out its maneuvers no matter how difficult the marching formation was to execute. It was over-all excellency that brought the three state honors to Larson's band, rather than outstanding performance perform-ance in any one phase of the contest. When the winner was an-nounced an-nounced the band lined-up on the field while Gus P. Backmnn. of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, presented the tropy to President Ray II. Olpln of the University of Utah, who in turn presented it to Mr. Larson. The presentation was a thrilling ell-max ell-max to weeks of effort on the part of Mr. Larson and his band members. Saturday evening the band performed in the stadium before more than 20,000 fans gathered for the Utah-Denver football same, and received rousing cheers from the thousands gathered gath-ered from all parts of the west for the big event. In addition, descriptions of their performance were carried on radio broadcasts broad-casts to all parts of the Western United States. The Cedar City group was fea-tured fea-tured in the special Band Day halftime program. The 120 member mem-ber Denver band took the field first, followed by the Cedar City group, and with the famous University Uni-versity of Utah band finishing the program. The vast crowd seemed to thrill to the excellent performance of the high school students, taking the field between be-tween two of the finest college bands In the west, perhaps In the nation. The band was allowed six minutes min-utes In which to perform during the contest, but because of lack of time, were cut to five minutes CHAMPIONS OF UTAH, IDAHO AND NEVADA M'Co) J'iW'i X b'l a 1-U ...1 - . - ...v- .-.- , .,., ...... , . v.,,.-v - Precision marching formations that brought the Cedar High school band first place honors in the University of Utah Band Day festivities Saturday at Salt Lake City. Winning over bands from Utah, Idaho and Nevada, the Cedar group gained privilege of participating with Utah and Denver University bands at football game halftime ceremonies. The band also brought back to its school the beautiful trophy displayed by Director A. B. Larson in lower picture. Y SiP&' JTW 'K'&t' during the half. This necessitated a quick change of routine, rou-tine, and the students, dead tired, but "walking on air", spent a couple of hours between the two events, changing chang-ing the routine and whipping It Into shape. They worked hard and determinedly and came through with an exceptional ex-ceptional performance to bring unusual recognition to the school and to Cedar City. The students also participated in pre-game ceremonies of the Band day. Each band marched Into the stadium before game time, and then the 2250 high school band students and the members of the two university bands marched onto the field for a mass presentation of the Star Spangled Banner, directed by Professor Robertson. The Ogdcn high school was given runner-up honors and the Ely, Nevada croup earned honorable mention for Its performance. Lions Club to Honor High School Band In recognition of an outstanding accomplishment the members of the Cedar City high school band will be honored hon-ored by the Lions club at the regular meeting of the club on Monday, October 31. A. B. Larson, director of the band, was a special guest of the club at Its meeting Monday, at which time an Invitation In-vitation was extended to him to bring his band members to the October 31 meeting. The band members will be guests of the club at dinner and will also entertain with a few of their most popular numbers. ' The honor Is to be paid the group In recognition of its having won top honors at the University Band Festival Saturday, in which the local organization competed with 33 of the finest bands in Utah, Idaho and Nevada. |