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Band Festival
The Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association sponsors an annual concert
festival every March. They perform a prepared concert of three pieces, as
well as sightread two pieces they have never seen before. All groups are rated
on a scale of one to five (one being the high score). Three adjudicators evaluate
the concert performance, and one adjudicator scores the sightreading. The
concert adjudicators give written and taped comments on the strenghts and
weaknesses of the group. The sightreading judge does a mini clinic with the
group after they play. The goal of concert festival is to play at the highest
potential of the group, and to learn from the judges’ comments, not
to compete with other groups.