- With one award short of 100

and $8,500 in prizes and

.-- scholarships, the Pacific |
Northwest Music Festival has

the most community support.

of any regional festival of its

kind in B.C.

|: (PNWMF....

T:. SEVEN-MEMBER AWARDS
Committee provides an integral
service to the annual Pacific
Northwest | Music.
Headed by Nora
Phillips, the committee is com-
prised of Carol Zucchiatti ‘and

~ Gayle Appleton (Nora’s right-hand
‘men’), Elsa Murphy, Linda Mc- ©
..Mynn, - Sheila Pretto and Norah
. ‘Ferguson. - or :

Each iasiniitce inember does

one: discipline. ‘This includes fol-

lowing ‘the guidelines, working
with the adjudicators, posting
awards, notifying winners and

ensuring that the trophies are

properly engraved. Carol does
speech arts; Gayle looks after

.| junior piano and instrumental;
Elsa does vocal and choral; Linda

deals with dance; Sheila. looks
after senior piano and Norah F.

‘|: works with the bands and acts as
| adjudicator’s secretary. —_

For the 27th annual Festival

currently in progress, the awards
committee has —
.awards with a monetary value of

collected 99

over $8,500, plus trophies. Nora

| Phillips says proudly, "The Pacific
‘Northwest Music Festival is the

most generous festival in B.C.,

“| .dtie to the excellent community

support!" A regional event,

Terrace Review — April 3, 1992

Festival

PNWMF awards will be presented
on April 11 (Gala Performance)
from businesses and individuals

in Terrace, Prince’ Rupert, Kiti-
mat and Smithers. The ‘Pacific
Northwest Music Festival is a
totally non-profit organization, so
community contributions are
imperative to its success.

On the Awards Committee for
the past seven years and before
that, its historian, Nora explains,
"It’s a tremendously big job. It
took me two years of working on
awards with Bertha Watmough to

‘ begin to feel comfortable with it."

Nora adds, “It’s a fun job, though.
I get to meet and spend time with
the adjudicators — going through
all the syllabus regulations and
explaining the PNWMEF pro-
cedures. We meet with the adjudi- ,
eators for scholarship night and
for the Festival of the Arts (being
held in Vernon this year) adjudi-
cator recommendations. One
learns a lot from them, as well."
This year, the Pacific North-
west Music Festival is hosting
nine adjudicators. For the first
year ever, classical guitar adjudi-
cator Stephen Boswell is here to
adjudicate and give workshops
and private lessons. This year
also, seven original compositions
in both music and poetry are -
entered into the competition. A