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Auditioned In West’sGarage, Student WiMusic ScholarshipGeorge Popovich, Paxton .streethas left for Florida Southern'College,, Lakeland, Fla., having;been aw aided a music scholar*ship by that college..Professor Samuel Griffith, director of music and conductor of the orchestra, at FSC, gave the Watertown High, graduate an.audition at West1 si Gar ago on September 5. Professor Griffithcomes north to his home in Massachusetts every summer and arranged to interview and hold an. audition for George In Watertown. When 'the time came there was no place available at the moment,, and being near the garage,the professor and the student ob-lt;9,ri mission to conduct examinations there-, George played, excernts from. Beethoven's 9th Svmphonv and the bass Bart of Strauss* MChtt-Chat Polka*’',,Impressed, the nrofessor told Oeorge he would be notified of the results. I*ast week;' having ne^ei'ced official, word that the «»*tuition was a. CQiiecess. the stu-r*Av«f- Trenared to phv music down Smith and. bask in the1 sun. of thecenter of Florida
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Watertown Town Times
Watertown, Connecticut, US
Fri, Oct 15, 1948
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