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Chicago High School Wins Trophy in
National Band Playing Tournament
X T I C H O L A S SENN HIGH SCHOOL, Chi-
cago, won the grand trophy at the Na-
tional School Band Contest in Denver, Col, on
May 23, 24 and 25, with Modesto High School
of Modesto, Cal, second, and Emerson High,
of Gary, Ind., third. The Chicago school won
first place in Class A among a list of eleven
entries in that class, the judges agreeing that
the winning school had proved a worthy suc-
cessor to Joliet High's band, which won the
national trophy three times in succession.
The Denver meet was an unqualified success
from every viewpoint, according to the pro-
moters of the contest. Twenty-five of the fin-
est school bands in the country competed, their
performances were marked by an evenness and
finish that evoked the admiration of the judges,
and public interest in the contest was of the
keenest. The final play-off was the largest in
tlie history of the national meets, according to
C. M. Tremaine, director of the National Bu-
reau for the Advancement of Music, who said
that 7,000 persons had jammed Denver's audi-
torium to hear the playing of the six bands to
which the contest had narrowed down.
The other winners in the finals in Class A
were: Thomas Jefferson High School, Council
Bluffs, Iowa, fourth; Sterling High School,
Sterling, Colorado, fifth, and Marion High
School, Marion, Indiana, sixth.
The Class B trophy was won by Boys' Voca-
tional School, Lansing, Michigan, from a field
of fourteen entries. Belvidere High School,
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Belvidere, Illinois, won second place, and
Princeton Joint Union High, Princeton, Cali-
fornia, which won third place last year, re-
tained their position this year. The other win-
ners in this class were: Hobart High, Hobart,
Indiana, fourth; Wasatch High, Heber City,
Utah, fifth, and Cyprus High, Magna, Utah,
sixth. Lansing's school, this year's winner of
first place, finished second in the 1928 national
meet, St. Mary's Industrial School, Baltimore,
taking first place in that contest.
While the total of competing bands in the
Denver contest was only two under the total
that took part in the national meet in Joliet,
Illinois, in 1928, it was considered a remark-
able showing that twenty-five bands should
have been represented in a contest as far West
as the Rocky Mountain metropolis. Another
notable feature of the contest was the increased
instrumentation, the Chicago high school band
having 120 pieces.
The solo contests on the various band instru-
ments were conducted by A. R. McAllister,
president of the National School Band Associa-
tion, and director of the Joliet High School
Band, and the awards of trophies and medals
were made by C. M. Tremaine.
Commenting on this, Mr. Tremaine said: "The
striking thing in this year's contest is that the
winning band had 120 pieces, and in the first
six bands in Class A all were 100 per cent on
instrumentation, that is, a minimum of seventy-
two pieces. Throughout the entire list I no-
ticed a distinct increase in instrumentation in
both Classes A and B, and this fact, together
with the apparent advancement in the stand-
ards of program and rendition, strikes me as
highly significant."
The Competing Bands
The full list of competing bands, all of them
winners in their respective State contests held
prior to the national meet, together with their
respective conductors, is as follows: Class A—
Chicago, two bands, Capt. A. R. Gish and J.
H. Barbash; Marion, Ind., C. R. Tuttle; Coun-
cil Bluffs, la., Lee M. Lockhart; Amarillo, Tex.,
Oscar Wise; Gary, Ind., H. S. Warren; Min-
neapolis, Minn., William Allen Abbott; Grand
Junction, Colo., A. L. Strong; Montrose, Colo.,
Loyde Hillyer; Canton, S. D., G. C. McClung;
Portland, Ore.; Salt Lake City, Utah, A. R.
Overlade; Modesto, Cal., Frank M. Mencini.
Class B—Belvidere, 111., Clarence F. Gates;
Scottsbluff, Neb., Leo W. Moody; Hobart, Ind.,
William Revelli; Lansing, Mich., King Stacy;
Cleveland, Okla., George W. Sadlo; Felicity, O.,
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The Judges of the contest were: Will Ear-
hart, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Edward W. Morphy,
Madison, Wis.; N. De Rubertis, Kansas City,
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The competing bands were judged on their
playing of one required composition and one
permissive number to be selected from a list
of twenty compiled by the Committee on In-
strumental Affairs of the Music Supervisors'
National Conference. The assigned composi-
tion for Class A was "A Chant from the Great
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played four numbers in all, the first a warming-
up march not judged, and the fourth a well-
known number for playing in unison with other
bands in its class.
While, as might be expected, the judges were
critical in their estimates of the playing of the
bands, they found a great deal to commend in
the performances and their comments noted
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