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OTHS finishes third in 2026 IHSA Class A State Music Sweepstakes · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: OTCHS finishes third in twenty twenty six Chess Class A
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  State music Sweepstakes. Written by Matthias Warner, this article is
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  being read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlet.
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  The Ottawa Township High School Music Department finished third in
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  the twenty twenty sixth Illinois High School Association Class A
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  Music Sweepstakes, held the weekend of April eighteenth. According to
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  a news release from OTHS, the OTHS bands and choirs
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  participating in the ISIS solo and ensemble and organizational contests
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  scored a combined eight hundred and seven points. One of
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  our biggest goals throughout the contest is providing our students
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  with quality musical experiences. OTHS band director Andrew Jacoby said,
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  our main focus is to grow our students into stronger musicians.
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  The twenty twenty six competition marks the fortieth time OTCHS
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  has placed in the top three in its class in
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  the fifty four year history of the ice of Music Sweepstakes.
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  According to the release, Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Jazz Band,
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  Concert Choir, treble Choir, and Crimson Choir all got all
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  Division IE ratings. Jacoby said it's the third time that
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  has happened in my ten years at the school. High
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  school music programs across five different classes compete in the
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  ISS Solo and Ensemble Contest and the ISO Music Organizational Contest.
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  NINETYTHSS music students competed in one hundred events during the
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  Solo and Ensemble Contest part of the competition on March
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  seventh at Bradley Bourbonet Community High School, before the full
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  music department headed to County High School for the organizational
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  portion that was supposed to begin on Friday, April seventeenth.
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  According to the release, a challenge that the choirs had
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  to face was that we were suddenly rescheduled to day
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  two of the Organizational contest due to the weather. Otscral
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  director Ali Stakowitz said it ended up being all the
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  more exciting and special that all three choirs were awarded
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  Division ones because the students rose to the occasion against
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  those circumstances. Jacobi stressed that the primary goals for the
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  band in choirs transcend how they score in the competition.
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  The biggest win for us is the quality music we
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  made along the way and the bonds our students made
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  with each other through the process, he said, since The
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  ISA State Music Championship Series began in nineteen seventy two.
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  OTHS has collected twenty two total IS State Music Championships,
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  six runner up awards, and twelve third place finishes.