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December 22, 1928
PRESTO-TIMES
BAND CONTEST BOOK OUT
Amazingly Large Growth of School Band
Movement Within Recent Years Dis-
closed in Bureau Publication.
The 1929 year book of the state and national school
band contests has just been issued by the National
Bureau for the Advancement of Music, and it is by
far the largest and most impressive of the series
published annually since 1924, the year of the incep-
tion of these contests with the cooperation of the
Bureau and the Music Supervisors' National Con-
ference. The present edition contains eighty pages
and represents thirty organized states. It also con-
tains the pictures of seventy-one first prize winning
bands in the different classes of the state contests and
the national contest last spring. Some 500 school
bands participated in these events, with a total of
approximately 30,000 players now actively identified
with the meets.
Some of the attractive features of the book are the
illustrations of the prizes given winning bands and
their players, and donated by the National Associa-
tion of Band Instrument Manufacturers. Prominent
place in a box on the inside front cover page is given
to a public tribute made by the Music Supervisors
Committee to the members of this association, who
are Vincent Bach Corporation, Buescher Band In-
strument Company, C. G. Conn, Ltd., Frank Holton
& Company, Martin Band Instrument Company and
H. N. White Company. About 300 of these prizes,
including state championship trophies, bronze tablets
of various sizes, and sets of medals in gold, silver and
bronze were included in the awards of 1928.
Tells About Contest.
The booklet starts off with a brief resume of the
national contest in Joliet, 111., last May, which was
the culmination of the first five years of the com-
mittcc's work, and in which twenty-seven picked
bands from fourteen states participated. Then follows
a review of the committee's cooperation with state
school band contests since their inception and a state-
ment of its aims and policies regarding the contests.
Attention is called to the fact that warm personal
interest has been manifested in the contests, and
expert counsel freely given by the most prominent
band directors in the country, including John Philip
Sousa, Edwin Franko Goldman, Captain Taylor
Branson, Herbert L. Clarke and others, some of
whom are now serving on the advisory committee,
and all of whom have given their services as judges
in the national events. Above all the contests have
greatly stimulated the interest of school authorities
and the public in school bands and school instru-
mental music in general, which in many states has
led to a notable increase in the number of new bands
established and a wholesome expansion and improve-
ment of those already in existence.
Which It Fosters
The committee emphasizes that it is consciously
fostering through its rules for the national and its
recommendations in the state contests a better in-
strumentation for the school bands, and that the
concert or symphony band is the ideal it has in mind.
It is also working for interest in and performance of
high grade music, feeling that both these lines of
development are necessary if the band is to realize its
full possibilities as an educational factor and as a
means of securing more adequate recognition for in-
strumental music in the curriculum.
A new feature of the contest this year is the addi-
tion of a fifth class of participants to the four
previously provided for. This new class is a special
division for small high schools, with an enrollment
of less than 250, and is aimed to give particular en-
couragement to the development of bands in these
institutions.
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