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Brandon Sun By: Kyle Darbyson Sister Joan Miller gets ready to play the piano alongside the St. Matthew’s Cathedral Choir during a concert that took place in September 2014. Miller, who also taught at Brandon University for 33 years, passed away on Feb. 1 at the age of 87. (File)
Brandon University lowered its flag to half-mast last Friday to mourn the loss of Joan Miller, who died on Feb. 1 at the age of 87.
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Brandon University lowered its flag to half-mast last Friday to mourn the loss of Joan Miller, who died on Feb. 1 at the age of 87.
According to a Wednesday news release from the university, Miller’s career as a member of BU spanned over three decades, beginning in 1979 and eventually coming to an end in 2012.
Photograph By Sundance Photographers Four music groups from R.D. Parker Collegiate – the jazz combo, the intermediate jazz ensemble, the senior jazz ensemble adrenal jazz, and the local jazz ensemble – attended the non-competitive educational music festival in Brandon from March 19-22. “They had a performance they were adjudicated during and then they had a one-hour clinic with a musician/teacher after. They spent time working on their repertoire, some technical things and some listening and jazz idiom stuff,” explained Kevin Lewis, the music teacher at the high school. Lewis said the feedback the students received was beyond great. “They got some really positive reactions. Our senior ensemble in particular had really exceptional reactions from our clinicians. The two that worked with us told us we were the best ensemble they heard at the festival. They wouldn’t have heard everyone at the festival but we were the top they heard at their venue, out