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Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Clackamas Prit
Concert band prepares for
Elizabeth Hitz
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Uniforms
are
pressed.
Instruments of war are cleaned and
polished. The troops have drilled
for months, struggling to mem
orize their sheet music. Strains
of Percy Grainger’s “Molly on
the Shore” and Peter Mennin’s
“Canzon” fill the halls. The war
has started.
On Tuesday, March 14, about
800 students from 14 different high
school bands from Oregon and
Washington will battle it out in the
first annual Northwest Invitational
Concert Band Contest, The battle
ground is the college campus, spe
cifically the Niemeyer Building.
“Its going to be fun,” said
Britney Soper, a college student
and flute player for the Clackamas
Community College Concert
Band. “I did festivals all four years
of my high school experience. [It]
will be nice to hear how far the’
high school bands have come . . .
and not being competitive is going
to be nice, [to] not have the pres
sure of competition.”
All of the competition is open to
the public except the online sight
reading competition, and admis
sion is free. Bands are scheduled
to play in 30 minute blocks from 8
a.m. to 6 p.m.
According to Clackamas Music
Instructor and Band Conductor
David Mills, the contest will be
judged “by a distinguished panel
of college and high school music
educators from Oregon and
Washington.”
Local high schools competing
include: Benson, Milwaukie, Sky
View, Lake Oswego, Lake Ridge,
Westview, Aloha and West Linn.
“The Clackamas Community
College Concert Band will per
form over the lunch hour and at
the day’s end with the Oregon
Brass Ensemble,” said Mills.
“I think it’s great that we have
this beautiful facility and can host
the high schools,” said Music
Department Head Tom Wakeling.
“It helps them and it helps us.”
For more information or a com
plete schedule, contact the Music
department at (503) 657-6958, ext.
2434.
Instructor Gary Nelson and student Jerry Stalnaker practice in the Clackamas Concert Band. I n
college will host the Northwest Invitational High School Concert Band Contest Tuesday, Marchi
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in 1993. Since the game sfl
creation 13 years ago, more!
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a five studio audience at the®
studios on SW Macadam AvH
Portland. The public is welc®
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