Thursday, April 10, 2014

Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Performing for scholarships

Moose Jaw Music Festival hands out major awards
Helena Yee plays the first movement of Haydn's Sonata
No. 44 in G minor at the scholarship competition at
the Moose Jaw Music Festival on April 10, 2014.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy

By Lisa Goudy


Voices, band instruments, strings and pianos reverberated in the sanctuary of Zion United Church.

Thirteen musicians between the ages of 15 and 19 showcased the best of the best at the Moose Jaw Music Festival’s scholarship competition Thursday night.

“(Competitors are) kids from each discipline that were recommended by the adjudicator. They had to have a mark of 87 in one of their classes to qualify. So it (was) the strongest kids in the festival competing for the major scholarship awards,” said Marcie Carswell, vice-president and secretary of the annual festival.

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