Alliance High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Alliance, NE)

Page 33 text:

Festival or BUST! Learning a new song can be difficult, but with a little concentration, it can be done as is demonstrated by the alto section. Tammie Kistler, Tonya Benda, and Linda Pebley work on A Gaelic Blessing. Tenors Tom Beagle. Jeft Harris, and Ralph Gonzalez rehearse the chorus for the May 5 and 6 production of Camelot. From the start of the year until March 16, AHS Concert Choir was what could be called “Wayne oriented. This was the second year that the choir made the 300 mile trek to the Wayne State Music Clinic Festival, under the direction of Wayne State College Choral Conductor Cornell Pumstead. The choir combined with fourteen other choirs from all over Nebraska, as well as Iowa, to form a mass choir and perform three previously selected numbers. The the single choirs each performed two numbers of their own to make for a very interesting clinic. From the beginning of the year, many fund raisers were held to help off-set the costs of the two-day event, including two sock hops, two car washes, a Vocal Music Department sponsored All School Talent Show, which a seven-member band calling themselves “Climax”, unanimously won, a garage sale, as well as introducing the $1.00 admission policy to all public concerts. In spite of and partially because of the day-to-day talk of Wayne, Concert Choir enjoyed its best success of recent years. Supported by a strong bass section, a very large tenor section, and complimented by a deep alto section and a well rounded soprano section, the group was able to do many more difficult and intricate works, which a few years ago would have been called impossible. The choir also enjoyed the experience of working as the supportive chorus in the spring musical, Camelot.’’ Even though this was a new idea brought in by Director Tom Lauder, it appeared to go well. Concert Choir 29

Page 32 text:

Wayne State Music Clinic The 1981-82 choir officers and representatives are: Joann Balderson, Lezlie Adams. Rhonda West. Mike Galloway. Lavon Krejci. John Harris. Tom Lauder. Liz Burkhart, and Tammie Kistler. Music brings out many different responses and reactions in different people. Wayne Davis expresses the joyful side of music, and Mark Jensen shows the more serious and concentrated side of it all. Choir Director Thomas G. Lauder leads the Concert Choir in warm-ups before rehearsing music for an upcoming concert. c n Senior Peggy Thompson accompanies the mass choir during the piece. ‘Home Again.” 28 Concert Choir

Page 34 text:

Many Shows Keep Swing Choirs Busy The singing groups came alive at AHS this year with an all new look and a dynamite sound. Under the driving direction of Mr. Thomas Lauder, the groups had perfection down pat. Yet as the old addage goes, “there's always room for improvement. Choralettes, a select group of ten freshmen girls, were busy early in the year performing at various local shows as well as three concerts for the public. Swing Choir, on the other hand, was strongly senior based and spent most of the first semester in the classroom rehearsing for the real thing. But in December the ball got rolling when the class began giving performances for the public as well as small groups. Swing choir, better known as Blue Persuasion, were attired to fit their name. With the guys in casual gray crushed corduroy slacks and Oxford blue shirts, completed with suspenders, top hat, and bow tie, and the girls in two-toned blue wrap around dresses, they fit the name well, originally thought of by former director and founder, Mrs. Deb Dowling. Attired in rouge red dresses and heart warming smiles, members ot the select freshmen group called Choralettes are Jolinda Sydow, Lezlie Adams, Maria Vasquez, Melody Pebley, Wendy Walsh, Lori Bearden, Lori West, Dee Dennon, Natalie Schmitz. Pam Appleyard, and Carla Henderson. Blue Persuasion altos Vicki Hoff, Tina Wodke, Chanda Behm, Linda Pebley and Lori Clark take their audience to a world where dreams come true “Out on the Edge of Beyond. Senior Mark Jensen, a versatile drummer for various high school and local musical groups, shows the camera his very best side. 30 Swing Choir