Edina High School - Whigrean Yearbook (Edina, MN)

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24 Stu Sailer uz; enferfains fhe audience by sing- ing Trouble from The Music Man. Chris Nlewoehner no, and Krista Groff Ola gef ready f0 ploy fheir finesf cf Cabaref. Mark Dolezal nu. Jack Duchow U 1,,and Mike Nelson U1, play Santa of the Orchestra's Cabaref concert CONCERT POPSKIABARET

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During an afferschool practice, some members of the Witness for the Prosecution casf re- hearse their lines. John Bush U 1,, a veferan of the Edina Stage, ponders a line in one of his scenes. WINTER PLAYS 23

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They solured Souso 0er o Musicol Mon. Each year, Two TolenTed musical groups seT oside Tuesday and Thursday nighTs in preporoTion for con- cerTs ThoT are The highlighT of The year according To Laura Begley U 1,. The evenTs, OrchesTro CoboreT ond ConcerT Bond Pops, involve noT only insTrumenToI music, buT skiTs, choral se- lecTions, ond TrodiTions. CoboreT kicked off The ChrisTmos season wiTh A SquTe To Souso. Se- IecTions included fomous Souso marches and o vorieTy of oTher music: Rosenkovolier Wosz, iiLo Sorello, Fiddler on The Roof, and iiAmericon PoTrol To home 0 few. Corny jokes broke The Tempo of The concerT 05 Kathy Herrick an osserTed, iiWe don'T jusT ploy sTuffy music. Crossover band members, or OrchesTro Winds, added a differenT sound and nearly doubled The size of The orchesTro. iiThe horn seoTion is hoT. We're The besT porT of The orchesTro, modesTiy commenT- ed Doug McNaughT C1 1,. NoT To be oquone, The sTring bosses provided enTerToinmenT wiTh skiTs while wearing SonTo hoTs ond reindeer noses. Cobo- reT ended wiTh o medley of ChrisTmos songs and enThusiosTic opplouse. In February, onoTher group of musi- cions combined TolenT, enThusiosm. and a rigorous procTice schedule To produce The 33rd ConcerT Bond Pops. This Time The bondies impersonoT- ed Iowons in selecTions from iiMusic Mon wiTh BreTT Peterson 2D and STu Sailer HZ, shoring The TiTle role. Of course, The performances focused mainly on differenT sTers of bond mu- sic, from Dove Brubeck jozz To The clos- siool moroThon, Les Preludes. Pops gove bond members a chance To display 0 vorieTy of TolenTs. In oddi- Tion To pieces like HI GoT RhyThm which showcased The percussion, The odvenTurous song solos in The musical or performed skiTs ond one-liners. The concert porTi'on. WhoT mode Pops '86 successful? Moybe iT was The Hcon do Mr. Ed Melichar 00c; spiriT ThoT moTivoTed The bond, or The example seT by Their predecessors, 05 Karen HendershoTT U1, explained, iiLosT yeor's bond was so good . . . The veTerons ore moTivoT- ed To work harder. Spending so much Time TogeTher, The bond goT To know each oTher, and 0 sense of communiTy developed. Opening nighT found The TrodiTionol flowers and good-Iuck noTes on music sTonds, ond onoTher Time-honored TrodiTion, The olI-nighT porTy oT ScoTT Moore's cm exTended The fesTiviTies. VeTeron seniors and Hsophs olike corried more Thon soxophones ond TrumpeTs home from The concerT; boTh The orohesTro and The bond gained 0 sense of soTisfocTion from Their occom- plishmenT. Laura Lee T1 1h is inTenle fixed upon making The performance The besT possible and conTnbuTes To The Tremendous success. The 33rd Pops was more Than The Music Man - Mary Maleckl Uh shows off during her solo in CONCERT POPSTCABARET 25