In case you're eager to see the program for this year's Battlefords Kiwanis Music Festival, the programs are available for $7 at Sobeys. If you are looking for a quick reference or summary, posters outlining dates and schedule information are posted around town.Congratulations to this year's program cover contest winner, Grade 6 student Kaila Robertson from Bready School. Look for other entries to be featured within the pages of the program and adorning the festival venues. Submissions from other schools included EMBM, Ratushniak Elementary, BCS, St. Vital, and Holy Family.
Over the last few weeks you have been introduced to the speech arts adjudicator for this year's festival, Ian Nelson of Saskatoon, followed by two Edmonton residents, band adjudicator Larry Shrum and Harold Wiens, who will adjudicate vocal performances and piano adjudicator from Dysart, Carol Konecsni-Christie. The final musical discipline wrapping up the festival is strings. Adjudicator Joan Savage returned home to Saskatoon after earning degrees in violin performance at Peabody Conservatory (B.Mus.) and San Francisco Conservatory (M.Mus.). She is a violinist in the Saskatoon Symphony, Starry Nights Chamber Musicians, co-directs and performs with Prairie Vitruosi and with BeMUSed, an inventive ensemble that blends music with literature. Highlights of her active chamber music and freelance career include CBC broadcasts of chamber music performances, performing in the 2007 Junos and in the Centennial Orchestra for Queen Elizabeth II. Savage teaches violin to a large studio of students, beginner to advanced.
If you are a teacher or participant, this might be an appropriate time to make sure you're abiding by festival entry rules and regulations. It is important to not use any photocopied music since that is illegal. Any music being viewed by the adjudicator or used in the performance must be an original copy. The music handed in to the adjudicator must have the first bar of each line numbered. Music must be handed in to the session's secretary prior to the start of each session.
It is prohibited to practice in venue performance areas during the festival dates except in designated rehearsal or warm-up areas. And please arrive on time so sessions start promptly.
With all entries organized and finalized, we can announce firm festival schedule dates for 2013. Speech Arts will begin the festival running from Monday, March 4 through Wednesday, March 6. Band sessions will begin Thursday, March 7 ending Saturday, March 9. The longest running discipline in the schedule is voice which runs from Sunday, March 10 through Friday, March 15. This is followed by four days of piano performances from Saturday, March 16 through Tuesday, March 19. The festival will close with one day of strings on Wednesday, March 20. The celebratory gala and awards ceremony will be held on Friday, March 22 at Third Avenue United Church.
"A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony." ? Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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