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Welcome to Holmfirth Musical Festival’s 65th Annual
Competition.
We are pleased to be able to keep our entry fees
at the same level as last year (and indeed there has not been an increase
for some years). Please note
that there are reduced entry fees for multiple entries by one competitor
(see syllabus, page 4).
We hope to have an increased number of entries in
the children’s instrumental classes (classes 1, 2 and 3) and if so, we
intend to subdivide these classes into woodwind, brass and strings (see
page 5). The children’s choirs class (page 10), revived
quite recently, has proved to be very popular. We are of course pleased with
this, but also somewhat embarrassed because the Civic Hall can barely
accommodate all the singers and their audience. We have investigated the
possibility of moving this class to a larger venue, but this is not
possible. Accordingly, for
Health and Safety reasons, we have decided to limit the number of singers
per choir to 35, and we hope that choirs will understand the reason for
this. If you are a trophy holder from the 2009 Festival,
we would appreciate its return as you agreed, by August 31st
2010. In recent years it has
been an onerous task for our volunteers to prepare the trophies because of
the amount of chasing needed. We would also appreciate your cooperation in
filling in the entry form.
The forms are split up into classes on receipt, and again it takes
our volunteers extra time to search for information required to compile
the programme when items have been omitted from the form. Please check that you have
included all the items requested for the class you are entering, on each
form.
Note that the Rotary trophy competition is open to young people who reside in the Holmfirth area (see details below for exact definitions), and carries a £250 prize. Apart from this class, and the choirs class, none of the other classes carry monetary prizes.
Test pieces may be bought locally from Dolphin (Market street) in Huddersfield, or from Musical notes (7, Norridge Bottom, Holmfirth, tel. 01484 689747) online from (amongst others) musicroom.com. For further information, please email:
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