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FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2017
Sumter pianists win top honors at USC BY IVY MOORE Ivy@theitem.com Two Sumter pianists, students of Jane Luther Smith, recently scored top honors in the Senior Division of the South Carolina Piano Festival Association Auditions. Hannah Gathers and Sarah Jekel won the One Plus, or Superior Plus, rating on March 10 at the University of South Carolina School of Music in Columbia. Joseph Di Piazza of University of North Carolina Greensboro School of Music judged the Senior Division. The audition required that students play three selections from memory selected from the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Contemporary periods of piano literature. Gathers’ selections were C.P.E. Bach’s “Solfeggietto,” Robert Schumann’s “Knight Rupert,” Opus 68 No. 12 from “Album for the Young” and Aram Khachaturian’s “Ivan Sings” No. 1. Jekel chose Beethoven’s “Bagatelle No. 1,” Opus 119, Claude Debussy’s “Reverie” and Rachmaninoff’s “Prelude in G minor,” Opus 23, No. 5. As winners of the Senior Division, the two
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From left, award-winning pianists Sarah Jekel and Hannah Gathers, with instructor Jane Luther Smith.
performed on March 18 in the S.C. Piano Festival Honors Recital in the USC School of Music Recital Hall. Jekel has received many awards and honors during her 8½ years studying with Smith, including her recent acceptance as a piano and harp student at North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, beginning in the fall. Previously, she auditioned and interviewed to attend South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville, where she completed summer study and performed in recital. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Jekel and the granddaughter of Mrs. Alton Emerson Truesdale and the late Mr. Truesdale of Sumter, Jekel is 15. Gathers, 16, is the daughter of Rubin Gathers Sr. and the late Mrs. Gathers and the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Riley Bracey, all of Sumter. For more information, contact Jane Luther Smith Piano Studios, 1190 Suite 5, Old West Liberty St., Liberty Square, Sumter, or call (803) 469-9755 or (803) 775-2982.
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POLICE BLOTTER CHARGES Freddie H. Truesdale Jr., 26, of 517 Coachman Drive, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with larceny and simple possession of marijuana after he was identified as a suspect seen taking items, valued at $575, from a pickup truck parked at an apartment building on Coachman Drive about 12:30 a.m. that day. According to an incident report from Sumter Police Department, officers found a mason jar containing approximately 5 grams of marijuana in Truesdale’s back pants pocket while he was detained. STOLEN PROPERTY A Samsung TV valued at $800; a Microsoft Xbox console valued at $300; 15 Xbox games valued at $40 each; and an HTC Droid cellphone valued at $500 were reportedly stolen from a residence
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in the 3800 block of Spencer Road, Rembert, between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Tuesday. A black 16-by-16-foot double axle trailer valued at $2,000 was reportedly stolen while it was parked in the 1100 block of Pocalla Road on Tuesday. A brown 12-gauge shotgun, unknown make and model, valued at $250; a .270-caliber Remington firearm valued at $400; a .30-caliber Browning firearm valued at $450; a .22-caliber long rifle, unknown make and model, valued at $250; a black-and-silver .22-caliber five-shot Magnum pistol valued at $200; a black gun safe, unknown make, valued at $50; and a black 50-inch Samsung TV valued at $500 were reportedly stolen from a residence in the 2400 block of Highview Street between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Tuesday. A gray lock box, unknown
make, valued at $50 and the deeds to property valued at $1,000 were reportedly stolen from a residence in the 5400 block of Camden Highway between 9 a.m. and 2:20 p.m. on Tuesday. A gray 2011 Nissan Altima four-door valued at $7,000 was reportedly stolen while it was parked at a residence in the 2800 block of Stamey Livestock Road between 9 p.m. on Tuesday and 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday. A Topcon land surveying tool and tripod valued at $3,000 was reportedly stolen from a residence in the 2900 block of Wise Drive between 4 and 11: 45 a.m. on Wednesday.
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