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MUSICAL MERCHANDISE
State Band Tournament
Is Held in Wisconsin
STEVENS, WIS., May 25.—Practically every band
instrument dealer in southern and eastern Wis-
consin was in attendance at the annual Wiscon-
sin School Band Association's State tourna-
ment, where almost 3,000 students in fifty-three
bands were competing for honors.
In the Class A contest, Richland Center, win-
ner for three consecutive years, won again this
year, but it shared first honors with six other
cities under the new judging plan. Seven cities
were thus given first places and in addition to
Richland Center, they included Algoma, Apple-
ton, Cudahy, Milwaukee North Division High
School, West De Pere, and Milwaukee Boys'
Vocational school. The Class A division was
for bands with more than twenty-five months'
experience.
Second place in the Class A was won by Green
Bay, Milwaukee Lincoln High, Portage, Ste-
vens Point, Viroqua, Wauwatosa and Westby.
Four cities were rated in third place. They
were the Boys' Technical high school, of Mil-
waukee; Bangor, Milton Union, and Berlin high
schools.
In the Class B competitive events which were
open to organizations with seventeen to twenty-
four months' experience, Milwaukee South Divi-
sion high school, Menasha, Shorewood, Two
Rivers, and Waupun shared first place. Second
place was divided between Antigo, Beaver Dam,
Mount Horeb, Milwaukee West Division, and
Girls' Vocational School. Third place in the
Class B went to Galesville, Nekoosa, iNew Hol-
stein and North Milwaukee.
Other competitions were held in solo events,
and these included a flute and piccolo contest;
a mellophone contest, an oboe contest and a
drum contest. There were also a brass sextet
and ensemble events, woodwind quartets, mixed
woodwind duet contests, ensemble events, clar-
inet duets, and a number of saxophone and
sousaphone contests. A special award for the
best drum unit in the parade was won by the
Lincoln High School of Milwaukee, and the
prize for the best drum major was also claimed
by that school.
Final settlement of the case of M. O. Matt-
lin, doing business as the Knabe Warerooms,
Mason & Hamlin Warerooms, Home Piano Co.,
and Reliable Piano Co., in Cleveland, ()., has
been made at sixty cents on the dollar.
Lincoln, Neb., High Wins Trophy
in National Orchestra Contest
First Annual Event of This Kind Held at Iowa City, Iowa, on May 17 and 18 and Pro-
nounced an Outstanding Success—Fourteen Organizations Entered
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p H E first animal contest on a national scale
•*• for school orchestras, which was held in
Iowa City, Iowa, on May 17 and 18, was an
unquestioned success, according to reports re-
ceived by the iNational Bureau for the Advance-
ment of Music, which co-operated in the meet.
Some fourteen of the finest school orchestras
in the country, representing winners in various
State contests held prior to the national meet,
took part in the competition for the bronze and
silver national trophy awarded by the bureau.
The contest was held under the auspices of
the University of Iowa and was in direct charge
of Prof. E. H. Wilcox. The competing school
organizations were from States as widely sep-
arated as Florida, Minnesota, Indiana and
Michigan, seven States in all being represented.
The grand trophy was won by Lincoln High
School, of Lincoln, Neb., C. B. Righter, Jr.,
directing. The standing of other contestants in
this class was: Hammond High School, Ham-
mond, Ind., Adam P. Lesinsky, director, sec-
ond; Flint Central High School, Flint, Mich.,
Walter Bloch, director, third, and East High
School, Waterloo, Iowa, G. T. Bennett, direc-
tor, fourth.
Mt. Clemens High School, Mt. Clemens,
Mich., Paul H. Tammi, director, won first place
in Class B; Michigan City High, Michigan
City, Ind., Palmer H. Myran, director, second,
and Decatur High School, Decatur, Mich.,
Aileen Bennett, director, third.
The judges of the contest were: George
Dasch, conductor of the Little Symphony
Orchestra, Chicago; Joseph E. Maddy, School
of Music, University of Michigan, Ann Ar-
bor, Mich.; Sandor Harmati, conductor of the
Symphony Orchestra, Detroit, Mjich., and
Vladimir BakaleinikofT, Assistant Conductor,
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
In the contest each orchestra was required
to play an assigned composition and a second
number, selected from a list of twenty com-
piled by the Committee on Instrumental Affairs
of the Music Supervisors' National Conference.
The required number for Class A Orches-
tras was Egmont Overture, Beethoven, and for
Class B, May Day Dance, Hadley.
BACON
BANJOS
The selective list for both classes, roughly
classified as to difficulty, number 20 being most
difficult, follows:
Allegro from "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik,"
Mozart; Turkish March, Beethoven; Allegro
from Twelfth Symphony, Mozart; The Last
Spring, Grieg; Gavotto in D Minor, Lully;
Valse Triste, Silolius; Barcarolle, Tschaikow-
sky; Farandolo from "L'Arlesienne," Bizet;
The Call of the Plains, Rubin Goldmark; Ethi-
opian Dance, from "Sylvia," Delibes; Largo
from "New World," Dvorak; Marche Mili-
taire Francaise, Saint-Saens; Valse des Fleurs
from "Nutcracker" Suite, Tschaikowsky; Ka 1 -
menoi Ostrow, Rubinstein; Slavonic Dance,
Dvorak; First Symphony, first movement,
Beethoven; Irish Washerwoman, Sowerby;
Scherzo from Sonata Tragica, MacDowell,
Rienzi Overture, Wagner; Andante Cantabile
from Fifth Symphony, Tschaikowsky.
C. M. Tremaine, director of the National
Bureau for the Advancement of Music, under
whose rules the contest was held, attended the
meet. From Iowa City he went to Denver.
Colo., to the National School Band Contest.
United Music Exhibit
Everything in Music Will Be Shown at Chi-
cago World's Fair
CHICACO, I I I . , May 27.—A united exhibit of the
music industry is planned for the Chicago
World's Fair Centennial Celebration in 1933.
The exhibit of musical instruments and every-
thing pertaining to music will be of a different
type than anything heretofore shown, it is said.
It is probable that the first building to be
erected, among those forming the main group
of the Chicago World's Fair in 1933 will be
Festival Hall. It is suggested that this build-
ing be erected prior to the Fair, so that musical
festivals may be held there as a sort of pre-
liminary to the main events.
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