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Show iRegion Six Music Festival Termed Success; County Schools Participate Over 1000 music students of Region Six participated in a? utstandinK music festival held at Parowan Saturday. Although schools did not compete against one another, judges of bands, orchestras and choral groups graded each participating group and the schools from Iron County Coun-ty were amonp; the top in the eyes of the judges. The event was handled by the Parowan school with the cooperation of the townspeople, townspeo-ple, with LeNoir Asay, music Instructor In-structor at the Parowan High School, In charge. Bands, orchestras and choral groups from the Cedar City High School and the CVdai Junior High School received Ihe lion's share of I ratings, the top rating given by the judges, and won many (Continued on Page Eight) REGION MUSIC FESTIVAL I (Continued from Page One) j words of praise and commendation commenda-tion from judges and audience reaction as well. Parowan High School received a major portion of I ratings. Parowan Par-owan activities are reported on the Parowan page, including a picture of the Marching Band. Clair Johnson, head of the music mu-sic department at Weber College in Ogden, had this to say about the Cedar City High School band in his rating of the selection "Prelude and Fugue, in B flat Minor": "A thrilling experience to hear a performance of this refined re-fined quality." He also requested a tape recording of the march "Colorama" by the group for use in his classes at Ogden. He gave the band I rating In every department de-partment of the festival. The Junior High School band received a considerable amount of praise for its work as well as receiving I in all departments except ex-cept marching where it was given giv-en two I and one II ratings by the three judges. Ormon R. Weieht. band and orchestra in structor at Olympus High School in Salt Lake City, commented: "In general this band has done a good job on a very nice piece of music. Congratulations to the director and the band." Special commendation was given to the clarinet section of the band for its work on the number "Nutcracker "Nut-cracker Suite." He had this to say: "Congratulations to tho clarinet section of this band. This is the best clarinet playing I've heard today." Orchestras Perform Well The orchestras of the high school and junior high received comparable praise for their efforts ef-forts at the festival, according to Roy L. Halversen, director. The high school orchestra "composed "com-posed of 41 members received I ratings and was playing Class A contest numbers, Ilalversen said. Although the judges did not have music available for sight reading at the event, the group last year received a I rating for sight reading. "That Is the largest group of strings I have seen since I was down here last year," was the comment of judge Dr. N. W. Christensen, director of instrumental instru-mental music at Utah State Agricultural Ag-ricultural College, on his score sheet for the Cedar Junior High School orchestra.. In addition to rated the group, comprised of 40 this commence Dr. Christensen students, as I. Sight reading material ma-terial for the junior high was also not available but it too received re-ceived a I rating Ln last year's festival. The mixed chorus of 50 voices from the Cedar City High School was given a I rating at the festival fes-tival in judging Saturday morning. morn-ing. A ladies' chorus received a I rating and E. B. Terry, head of the music department at Orem High School, one of the judges, listed this group as very outstanding. out-standing. He expressed pleasure particularly with tho soprano section sec-tion of this ladies group, according accord-ing to Wallace Adams, director. A Junior High School mixed chorus Mso performed and was rated II on the some score sheet as the senior high schools. An extra large group, 100 voices, this group is developing well, Adams said. He felt that the festival was outstanding training for the group. In the marching division of the festival, last of the day's events, which was witnessed by several hundred people mostly from Parowan Par-owan and Cedar City, the high school band received many favorable fav-orable comments in addition to its I rating. Weight gave the group A ratings in the fields of alignment, carriage, discipline, and Johnson added an A on his sheet for playing, cadence, and special maneuvers. "The melody is always full and strong" he commented and added that the special maneuevers were "very effective." The junior high band also received re-ceived two I ratings and one II rating ln marching. They were judged as A in alignment, carriage car-riage and discipline by Weight, and he added that all three of these characteristics were very good. On Johnson'r score sheet a notation was made stating that the "drum major was outstanding." outstand-ing." Junior high drum major is Billy Rice, Indian student at the school. |