Edina High School - Whigrean Yearbook (Edina, MN)

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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

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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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hiove The doys of sodo-pop shop dores died OUTT he fosT paced compeTiTion of The 80's has nearly drowned ouT The cosuol doTing Teenagers so ofTen os- socioTed wiTh posT generoTions of sTu- denTs. IT is jusT noT The some as iT used To be, and There are several reasons for This. DoTing has become exclusive for some people because compeTiTion in ocodemics, sporTs, ond oTher areas has desTroyed The desire To conTend for more ThoT one person's oTTenTion. Over 7596 of The sTudenTs polled oT Edino soid ThoT They had been or were Hgoing ouT wiTh only one person roTh- er Thon doTing several people, and 6896 of These sTudenTs soid ThoT They would noT wonT To see more Then one person 0T 0 Time. Also, a fair omounT of sTudenTs soid ThoT They opT noT To doTe oT oil. This does noT mean, however, ThoT The in- TeresT is noT There. IT's Too hord To geT sTorTed doTing, buT There is This red- head girl ThoT I wouldn'T mind doTing, said Scott Johnson am. And yeT oTh- ers have discovered ThoT doTing some- one from onoTher school is The perfecT soiuTion, an escape from The Edino iiclique doTing 05 Two juniors Termed iT. In Edino iT seems like doTing is done by groups, explained Ann Johnson am, You really only doTe someoni from The some group of friends. Finoi Iy, The way some couples ocT in Th1 hall is moTivoTion enough noT To doTe IT reoliy boThers me when couple HANG ALL OVER EACH OTHER during passing Time, complained Del: Croxen 2,: when Kristin Lindberg uz; added, Yeoh, no more P.D.A mublic display of offecTionN! So doTing exisTed in Edino as on one on one siTuoTion, even Though ove 5596 of The sTudenTs voiced o dislike fc iT. Why?!? Try reading beTween The lines. WhoT kind of a dare is This? quesfions Tom Nelson HZ, while he and Tom Carpenter HZ, search The compufer for girls To ask our. Unknowingly, Peter Swanson no, affempfs To sneak a kiss from Tory VanDusen UOJ - bur her mofher is sneaking a peak of Them. 26 STUDENT LIFE FEATURE