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Show i 1 SUSC offers Marching Bands Workshop recruiting and development of various band ft out groups, handling of equipment, show design and basic movements. High school and junior high students are encouraged en-couraged to attend both of these workshops with their directors. Room and board is available at SUSC for summer workshop participants. par-ticipants. Any inquiries should be directed to Professor Lamoureux, SUSC Music Department, Cedar City, Utah 84720. Four workshops for junior and senior high school marching bands will be offered as part of the Southern Utah State College summer school program. "The summer band program has been developed in response to the current nationwide movement to put marching bands back into a place of prominence," Joseph Lamoureux, SUSC Director of Rands, said. SUSC's four part summer adgenda will include a marching band techniques workshop July 31 - August 4 ; a workshop for the band front-flag, rifle, baton, and drill team members-August members-August 7-11; and a classroom workshop for band and orchestra directors direc-tors and band front sponsors July 31- August 11, which will run concurrently with the first two workshops. A fourth workshop will Lamoureux said that the marching band techniques workshop will include actual marching experience using eight to five (cessavant style), six to five (military style), corps style, pageantry, and street drill. On the field sessions will be held from 15 p.m. daily. "Because of the increasing in-creasing popularity of the corps style, an adaption of the Drum Corps which uses a glide step rather than a high-knee stride step, this particular style will be emphasized," Lamoureux explains. "The corps style is popular in the eastern United States and is iH'corning more popular now in the west." The band front techniques workshop will also be a 1-5 p.m., on-the field, training program. Included will be provide an opportunity for the high school or junior high band director to bring his entire band to SUSC for an intensive week of training in preparation for the fall marching season. Sessions have been planned July 10-14, 10-14, 17-21, and 25-28. Scheduling for this workshop should be made well in advance. College credit for participating par-ticipating high school seniors is available upon the recommendation of high school officials. Students participating in the program on the non-credit basis can do so for anly a nominal fee. Professor Lamoureux will direct each workshop. He is experienced in each style of marching, having taught precision drill at a small Virginia school in 1959, competition and corps style marching at a large school district in Pennsylvania in the late 1960's, and all styles of marching at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University prior to joining the SUSC faculty in 1977. |