15 Hour Mu­sic Re­view

On Feb. 18 and 19 the Mu­sic De­part­ment at Bethel Uni­ver­sity held the sec­ond an­nual 15 Hour Mu­sic com­pe­ti­tion. The com­pe­ti­tion had eight par­tic­i­pants, re­sult­ing in two teams of four par­tic­i­pants each. The per­for­mance was 45 min­utes long.

The win­ning team dubbed them­selves “FA111”, the name of their prac­tice room. This team was com­prised of Josiah Hack­ett, Grace Byler, Matt An­der­son and Kata­rina Kokoska. The team re­ceived plas­tic tiaras as a prize for win­ning.

Er­ica Kins­man, one of the plan­ners of the event, said, “New re­la­tion­ships and kills were formed by the par­tic­i­pants, and that was the real goal of the event.”

Kins­man also said, “It was great to see sup­port shown for the mu­sic de­part­ment, es­pe­cially from Robert Or­tiz and Pres­i­dent Belle­feuille. We have some ad­just­ments to make in the fu­ture for 15 hour mu­sic but hav­ing big names at Bethel sup­port us is re­ally great.”

The mu­sic de­part­ment and up­per­class­men plan on host­ing this event again next year and hope to have more in­volve­ment across ma­jors here at Bethel.