MUSON's 10 Years of Jazz and Festivals...

(From Vanguard (Nigeria) - AAGM)

Byline: Benjamin Njoku

ACTIVITIES marking this year's edition of the annual Musical Society of Nigeria's (MUSON) festival, which kicked off penultimate week with a youth concert featuring the seven finalists from the talent hunt competition organized by the MUSON School of Music in June, climaxed last week-end with the popular concert known as "Total Choral Concert."

This year's edition, with the theme "First decade...looking beyond", is packaged to mark the tenth anniversary of the yearly fiesta. Before flagging off the event last week, the Chairman of MUSON, Chief Femi Adeniyi Williams, reiterated the commitment of the management of MUSON to sustaining the yearly fiesta.

He noted that while part of the major concerns of the organizers of the annual ritual remain how to ensure the long-term survival, constant renewal and continuing improvement of all aspects of the festival, in planning this year's festival, attempt was …