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Monday, March 7, 2011
Stivers band takes 1st in Boston
The jazz orchestra from Stivers School for the Arts in Dayton captured first place in its division Saturday, March 5, in the 43rd annual Berklee College of Music High School Jazz Festival in Boston.
Directed by Claude Thomas, the band was described by Berklee professor Phil Wilson, a festival judge, as the equal of or better than great college jazz groups.
Trumpet player and Stivers junior Philip Hangen received special recognition for outstanding performance.
More than 3,000 students and 200 big bands, combos and vocal ensembles from across the United States and Puerto Rico competed in the festival, the largest of its kind.
Competing bands are given 18 minutes to show what they can do. The Stivers players performed professional arrangements of Cole Porter’s “Love For Sale” and Paul Ferguson’s “Blue Highways.”
Nineteen Stivers students and three chaperones made the trip, which Thomas said was made possible by an anonymous donor. It was the orchestra’s third trip to the competition and its third victory. The first two came in 2004 and 2008.
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