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Show t. ASSIST BAND.Earl Bruning, left, accepts donation from Garth Green, Cedar City Kiwanis Club President, for an east coast tour the SUSC ' Symphony Band will make in March. Kiwanis Club contributes to SUSC Symphony Band trip Twenty-six thousand dollars is a large amount of money to raise for a seventy-piece symphony band located in a small community, com-munity, but Southern Utah State Symphony Band members feel that every dollar will be worth the effort and some Cedar City community service organizations feel the same way. Garth Green, Cedar City Kiwanis Club president, announced an-nounced that the club is donating $150 to help the Symphony Band on its East Coast tour in March. "For many years the major emphasis of Kiwanis International In-ternational has been centered around youth groups. As such, we sponsor many such groups and feel that the SUSC band trip is a very worthwhile project in support of our youth in the community and state," Green said. The symphony band has received two special invitations to perform at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and at the Music Educator's National Conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey. ' The SUSC band was chosen to perform at.the music conference after judges listened to tapes sent in from 160 colleges and universitites from every state in the nation. Five were chosen to perform, and SUSC's Symphony Band is the only small college that will be performing, and the only college represented west of the Mississippi River. SUSC's Music Department has exerted many hours in the past several years to expand and build a program that is beginning to pay off handsomely. Earl Bruning, assistant band director, noted that all of the students who are enrolled in music programs are receiving "individual help on a one-to-one basis regardless of their major. It is one of several advantages that the SUSC Music Department offers that other institutions of higher education cannot." "There are many fresh things happening in music education in Utah, and we're very proud of the fact that we will be representing this state on our tour, and we are very appreciative ap-preciative of the Kiwanis Club contribution, not only in money but in community spirit as well," Bruning concluded. |