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The Music Trade Review
JUNE 4, 1927
Many School Band Contests
Held in the Month of May
Events Take Place in Northern California, So.
Dakota, Colorado, Indiana and Other States—
Twenty Thus Far This Year
Six of the State and sectional school band
contests with which the National Bureau for
the Advancement of Music is co-operating were
held during May. These were in Northern Cali-
fornia, South Dakota, Colorado, Indiana,
Nebraska and Oklahoma. Three of these: Cali-
fornia, Colorado and Oklahoma, were added this
year. A total of twenty State contests, in addi-
tion to the national, is the Bureau's record for
this year, which is only the fourth since the in-
ception of the work.
The California contest, held May 7 In the
Civic Auditorium of San Francisco, was under
the auspices of the San Francisco Civic Asso-
ciation, the city and county of San Francisco,
and the Music Trades Association of Northern
California. A wire received by C. M, Tremaine,
director of the Bureau, from E. J. Delano, of
Sherman, Clay & Co., chairman of the con-
test, reported the event a wonderful success,
with fine playing by the bands, one or two
massed numbers by thirteen bands and an at-
tendance of 10,000. There were three classes of
bands in the contest, the winners of which were
Class A—Modesto High School, first; Burlin-
g;r:ie High School, second; Class B—Preston,
first; Arcata, second; Class D (bands organized
less than one year)—Lodi High School, first;
Santa Rosa High School, second. The finals at
San Francisco were preceded by district con-
tests in the North Sacramento Valley and the
North Bay Counties.
The South Dakota contest, organized by the
University of South Dakota, was held at Ver-
million, after five district contests had been run
off during April at Madison, Aberdeen, Brook-
ings, Springfield and Spearfish. The winner of
Class A was Vermillion High School, which won
for the third time and will therefore hold per-
manently the beautiful silver and bronze trophy,
one of the many prizes awarded in these con-
tests by the Bureau on behalf of the National
Association of Band Instrument Manufacturers.
The Class B winner was Kgan High School.
The list of winners of the Illinois contest,
held at Urbana, under the auspices of the Illi-
nois School Band Association, has also been re-
ceived. These were Class A—Nicholas Senn
High School, Chicago, first; Quincy High
School, second; Champaign High School, third;
Class B—Belvidere, first; St. Elmo, second;
Class C—East Aurora Grade School, first; Joliet
Grade School, second; Class D—Champaign
High'School Second Band, first; I'aloka High
School, second. The marching contest was won
by Quincy, with Waukegan second. There was
a total of forty bands in the Illinois contest, in-
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eluding the preliminary district events. Three-
years ago there were but seven.
Full reports have not yet come in from the
contests in Indiana, Colorado, Oklahoma and
Nebraska, but the names of the winners, wired
to Mr. Tremaine, may be announced as fol-
lows:
Indiana—(Held at Elkhart, May 7): Class A—
Marion High School; Class B—-Fairmount High
School. Orchestra contest, Hammond High
School.
Colorado—(Rocky Mountain High School
Music Contest, held as a feature of Denver's
Music Week): Class A—Colorado Springs High
School, first; Centennial High School, Pueblo,
second. Class B—Casper, Wyo., High School,
first; Greeley High School, second.
Nebraska—(Held at Lincoln, May 7): McCook
High School, first; Grand Island High School,
second.
Oklahoma—(Held at Stillwater, auspices
Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical Col-
lege): Stillwater High School, first; Cleveland
Jersey City, N. J.
High School, second. This contest drew a large
entry.
Additional State band contests to be held be-
fore the middle of May are the Ohio contest at
Cleveland, May 13-14; the Texas contest at
Wichita Falls; the North Dakota contest at
Grand Forks and the Minnesota contest at Min-
neapolis. The Michigan and Wisconsin contests
were held a little later in the month, as was
also the New England sectional.
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