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Show B. A. C. STUDENT RECEIVES HONOR CEDAR CITY Douglas Manning, a third year high school student of the B. A. C. received notification today that he had been selected as a member of the National high school band which will play for the Annual Conevntion of the N. E. A. at Dallas, Texas, early in March. Mr. Manning won the distinction upon his record a a violin and viola student, having studied five years and having played in orchestras three years and in string quartetts two years. He will receive the music which he will bo expected to know, a month in advance. On February 26th, try-outs will be held at Dallas to determine which chair each individual will take in the orchestra. The chairs will be given according to ability. On March 3rd, the orchestra, which will consist of three hundred and fifty pieces, will play for the National Convention and on March 4th, it will accompany a choir of eight hundred voices. Mr. 0. E. Dalley, voilin instructor at the B. A. C, and leader of the orchestra and band, has been selected by the National Council at Michigan to assist in training the string section sec-tion of this orchestra. This comes to Mr. Dalley as a recognition of his merit. Last year it was given to the leader of the Detroit Symphony Or- chestra. Mr. Dalley and Mr. Manning will leave for Dallas shortly after the middle mid-dle of February. |