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Show Cedar High School Band Lists Concert The Cedar High School Band under the baton of Harold Boyce, will present a concert at the high school auditorium, Sunday eve-I eve-I ning, March 15 at 8:15 p. m. I Feature of the concert will be I Nancy Claire Johnson as piano soloist playing Rachmaninoff's Flano Concerto. Miss Johnson, a senior at Cedar High School, is described by Boyce as the most talented and outstanding student musician he ha-- had the opportunity to work with. For her, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Blaine Johnson, it will be the first major work with a band or orchestra accompaniment. accompani-ment. She has performed major works in the past, but never with a full compliment of band or I orchestra. The talented pianist has stud-j stud-j led under her mother, Mrs. Loa i Johnson, under Mrs. Mabel Jen- kins of Salt Lake City and with j Irving Wasserman of Utah State j University for two years. In addition to her piano, she plays first chair oboe with the band. The March 15 concert, which is free and open to the public, will feature two other band numbers num-bers including Bach's Prelude in Fugue in (5 Minor and the first movement from the Second Suite In F for Military Band by Gus-tav Gus-tav Hoist. The Piano Concerto is one of the more difficult numbers to be undertaken by the band in recent years. The fact that It is an ac companiment makes it more difficult, dif-ficult, he pointed out. To assist, the band has been augmented with nine musicians from the College of Southern Utah. The concerto is unique in that it is the only arrangement with band accompaniment. The ar-j ar-j rangement is on loan from Dr. Robert Hawkins of Western State College, who wrote the arrangement. arrange-ment. All of the original parts of the orchestra arrangement are included. in-cluded. Boyce indicated that all wind and percussion written for ! orchestra is included as in the original arrangement with other instruments of the band assuming assum-ing the parts of the strings in the orchestral arrangements. r i ' r I , , , . 'difficult works REHEARSED. Dl- rector Harold Doyce with piano soloist j Nancy Claire Johnson in background show strains of rehearsal in preparation for March 15 concert. Number is one of most difficult attempted by the band thi3 year. |