The 2024 state music festival for the southern area took place on April 27 at Provo High School. This year Bryce Valley High School was the only school from Piute, Wayne or Garfield county to attend.
Bryce Valley took one song to state. The following is the song and its rating.
Results
| School | Category | Name | Song | Rating |
| BVHS | Treble Vocal Ensemble | BV Women’s Ensemble | “Why Does the Willow Weep” | III+ |
BV’s choir, led by director Nathan Platt, spends many long hours each year preparing classical solos and group numbers for region and state music. Depending on the makeup of the choir, they often will have a men’s ensemble, a women’s ensemble, a mixed ensemble and a few soloists.
Scoring at music festivals is a little unusual. Singers do not receive gold, silver or bronze medals; instead they get a rating. The highest rating a song can receive is a one, or “I.” From there the score goes down with the number the same way it might with grades. To go on to state, a song must get at least a “I-.”
Last year Bryce Valley High School took three songs to the state music festival: one solo by Anne Overson, a women’s ensemble and a mixed ensemble. They were also the only school from the area to attend that year.
Read the complete results of the 2024 state music festival here.
– by Abbie Call
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Read more about Bryce Valley’s choir in Bryce Valley’s Choir Puts on a Fun, Familiar Concert.
Abbie Call – Cannonville/Kirksville, Missouri
Abbie Call is a journalist and editor at The Byway. She graduated in 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in editing and publishing from Brigham Young University. Her favorite topics to write about include anything local, Utah’s megadrought, and mental health and meaning in life. In her free time, she enjoys reading, hanging out with family, quilting and hiking.
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