District music groups earn superior ratings at regional festival

April 6, 2008
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Recently district music groups performed at the Columbia Basin Music Educator's Middle School and High School Adjudication Festival and received the following ratings:

- Walla Walla High School Concert Choir - Superior Rating
- Walla Walla High School Chamber Singers - Superior Rating
- Walla Walla High School Treble Singers - Superior Rating

- Garrison Middle School 7th & 8th Grade Choir - Superior Rating
- Garrison Middle School Honor Choir - Superior Rating
- Garrison Middle School 7th & 8th Grade Band - Superior Rating

The Columbia Basin Music Educators' Association sponsors the adjudication festival each year for all the high school and middle school bands, choirs & orchestras in our region (Walla Walla, Pasco, Kennewick, Richland, Kiona Benton, Othello, Mattawa, & Finley). The Festival gives all middle school and high school groups in the area a chance to prepare and perform music. A panel of three adjudicators critique the performance, and give suggestions for becoming a better group.

In a sense the adjudication festival is a more of a challenge than a competition, with each music group trying to perform its personal best. The music groups are not competing with one another, but are instead rated according to a standard with one of the following ratings awarded to each music group: I - Superior, II - Excellent, III - Good, IV - Fair, V - Poor.