University Summer Kansan
Friday, July 2, 1971
5.
Practice... Practice
Good music doesn't just happen. It takes practice. Long hard hours of practice. Each year the young musicians who enroll in the Music Division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp work with new conductors to produce the music for each week's concert.
The 578 musicians spend two hours a day in rehearsal with the entire group, and more several hours a day in sectional rehearsals.
The five bands and two orchestras present five concerts each during the session, working with five guest conductors and five resident concertists.
It takes a lot of work, but it all seems to be worth it when, on concert day, the group plays the camp's theme song, "An Irish Tune from County Derry."
Photos by Len Sophrin