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Show Stake MIA Music Departments Make Ready for Ambitious Choral Festival The music departments of the stake Mutual Improvement Associations Asso-ciations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are working hard these days in preparation prep-aration for .their stake choral festivals. The months of December, Decem-ber, January and February have been devoted to the learning of the songs to be sung at these festivals. These same songs will be sung at the choral festival held In connection with the MIA June Convention to be held in Salt Lake City. After the stake festivals are held, all stake choruses will be combined into a large regional chorus numbering nearly 500 singers, the largest ever to be assembled as-sembled In southern Utah, according ac-cording to W. H. Manning who Is co-director with Mrs. Manning for Region two, comprising Las Vegas, Moapa, St. George, Uvada, Kanab, Zion Park, Cedar, Parowan, Paro-wan, and Beaver stakes, one of the largest and most widely scattered scat-tered in the church. The regional region-al festival Is set for Saturday evening, April 9. This affair will be a fitting Easter celebration. An added feature of the regional reg-ional festival will be a symphony orchestra composed of some 55 young MIA members, directed by Professor Roy L. Halversen, head of the music department of the College of Southern Utah. This group of fine young musicians musi-cians will play three special numbers besides accompanying the chorus In one or two numbers, making It In a smaller way similar sim-ilar to the all-church festival to be held in Salt Lake City. At the June conference, a chorus, cho-rus, numbering 2000 voices, se- lected from those who have sung In either the ward or stake festivals, fes-tivals, will perform in the Tabernacle. Ta-bernacle. The festival given last year was said by high church authorities to be the greatest music mu-sic spectacle ever held ln that historic building. The Cedar Stake M I A will act as hosts to this gala affair and will prepare sack lunches for the visiting singers and instrumentalists instru-mentalists at a nominal cost. Nothing will be left undone In order to make the hundreds of guests welcome. |