Johnstown High School - Spectator Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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The orchestrw also his pllvcd 1n Ch lpcl md it the VV llnut Groxc Unlted Brethren Church lndlxldual members have been grouped to gether into xarxous ensembles and hixe entertwlned at many social affalrs Song IS an outpour1ng of the heart and an art1st1c embochment of the language of emotlon oy gr1ef pa1n love hope hero1sm and fortltude xx1ll remaxn her fax orlte themes to the end Mox ed by such feehng pr1m1t1ve man f1rst ralsed h1s VOICQ 1n accents of pass1on and qave hrs trxals of the clay or of the chase or of War around the camp flre ln a constant VOICG wh1ch gaxe the practlcal effect of the ch'1nt or practlce of 1ntonat1on A perlod of experxmentlng saw much ln the de xelopment two three or ex en four notes yxere added and thus began the transformatron of speech 1nto song Dancmg played a great part ln the development Wlth men accommodatrng thelr song to the beats of thelr feet xnfluenclng the melodles and group1ng the notes 1nto bars and phrases In th1s vxay cho1rs choruses and sololsts came to outpour the1r hearts 1nto song the one th1ng everyone IS capable of domg or has a deslre to do 'it one t1me or other Chorus act1x1t1es xn h1gh school today enjoy a hrgher plane of exlst ence ln the school program than was the1r condltlon a generatlon ago In those days the rehearsal per1ods vxere spasmodxc and 1rregular the or ganlzatron was usually termed a Cvlee Club and nts repertolre con slsted malnly of tr1fles such as The Bull Frog on the Bank or slckly sentlmental tunes and xx ords of the type Bobolmk Tell Me Tell Me True Today the chorus occupies a dlgnlfled place ln the school currlcu lum It IS an organ1zat1on of balanced sect1ons studylng works writ ten ln four SIX sexen or exght parts Educators today b6l16W6 that serlous and worthy muslc has as much 1ust1f1cat1on 1n the school pro grams as the study ofEngl1sh or a forelgn language The Chorus studles vxorks from the x 1r1ous schools of muslc datmg back from xvorks of the early church to those of the modern perlod VV1th1n the xocal l1m1ta txons of the hlgh school xoxces the vxorks xx h1ch are studled represent the hlghest type of music llterature from masters ln that fleld The fol loxxmg l1st w1ll 1llustrate the types and perlod yxhxch are exempllfled through study Adoremus Te Palestrlna M2dl36X3l Church Be s1de Thy Cradle Bach Early Classlc Axe Verum Corpus Mo zart Later Qlasslc Fmile from Cvondohers Sulllxan Llqht Opera The Three Kmgs Wxllan Modern Sacred Cnrgoes Lutkm Modern Secular Both the medlum of a capella and accornpanled s1ng1ng are em ployed by the lohnstovxn High School Chorus Sexeral performances ire yearly glxen tnese performances ter mlnite usually a semesters xx ork Many hours of addxtlonal t1me are dlhgentlv spent by our most capable dlrector Mxss Mary Weux er and the h1gh school puplls of the chorus besldes the scheduled tlme for regu lar rehearsals e Chorus . , Y , . , ' , . V Y 'm , r., . , c c I T c x c c c . -. . . Y S . . c ' c . Y Y c Z I h . 7. . V . Y Y C Y Y Y Y K . ' lc ' Y . Y , Y Y Y . . . . L Y Y Y i . I . . Y Y Y Y S c. . , 7 . . . F Y Y . . ll YY . . ' - . . . l. YY . . U . . , . Y Y Y YY Y - ' . , ' Y - Y Y - Y Y 1 C ' v A . ' - . . Y . 7 V . . Y 7. . . . . 7 . . . H H . . ll j ,-4 ,... ' ' - Y . YY . ll YY .-. .-. : ' ,i, , -. . ll , . , Y .Y , . ,-Y ' C ... ' ,.. 1 ll , YY . l. 1 Y. , C --f -- Y c L' .... , ' . w . . c I ' - . 1 H Yv V Y . . . c . I L Q I I . ' c ' ,

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e Orchestra It seems probable that music IS the oldest of the fine arts for wasn t it discovered among ancient nations exen those entirely ignorant of every other art? A number of instruments are mentioned in the Scripture and so we are led to belleve that music played a practical part in the Biblical days as it vxas so constantly used in connection with song and dance lrrom crude instruments shaped like snakes and other animals rat tles made of gourds filled with pebbles or seeds or flutes of hollovx bones to bands of five or six drums which were skins stretched ox er hollowed trunks of treees and twelve flutes a crude orchestra was com pleted in its way for always man must satisfy h1s sense of rhythm his love of noise and excitement We glance at ancient civilized nations who were doubtlessly more artistic than pr1m1t1ve men for we fmd that the Greeks accompanied their vocal music with instruments but were independent of all harmonic parts which is the special function of the modern orchestra It vvas from the vocal music that the first step began in the connection with the modern orchestra lt appeared in the Sew en teenth Century in the form of an opera produced in Italy The opera was accompanied by an orchestra and included one bowed instrument A conductor s score was not used but a bass and harmony vtere gix en although details were left to the players The first man to have the beginning of the modern Wagnerian or chestra was Claudio Mondtevedi known for his preponderant use of Then came Hayden who gave us the symphonic orchestra its typical form in four separate movements The last development of the orchestra is in the opera where it origi nally made its first marked step Richard Wagner had the complete form He specified his mstruments and added more and more new har monies for the instruments to glxe the richness of color and as his imag mation called for it new forms of combinations So with such an or chestra as the Wagnerian one with a number of performers on different instruments playing different parts ingeniously interwoven and harmon ized especially to suit the emotional characteristic of each instrument the souls of man can be swayed as by the forces of nature Our ohnstown High School Orchestra is a little Wagnerlan one wh1ch plays the music of the masters It is ably conducted by Mr C Porter Huntington and has a membership of about sixty players vxho vt ork for the pure enjoyment of good music The orchestra s activities are many Elex en members attended the All Western Orchestra at Bellex ue Pennsylvania early in December The members vxere Richard Rishell Kenneth W1SH1Skl oseph Kovs chak Margaret Carmany Natalie Hollern Martha Louther Carmel Coco Homer Denmson Iohn Slater Gene Head and Catherine Cole man February the 25 26 27 at Mt Lebanon the following were se lected for All State Orchestra Richard Rishell Kenneth Wisniski Car mel Coco Margaret Louther Natalle Hollern and Ioseph Kowchak 7 . . , 7 . V strings. His orchestra consisted of twenty-two out of thirty-six strings. . ' . 7 ' A A - Y ' - . V. . V D . ' , ' - - - 'V I ,-

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Retrospect The folloxxrng oratron xvas qrx en by ohn W Gocher as the Vale drctory Address of the Class of 1886 Thrs was the frfth class to be graduated from the ohnstown Hrgh School and rncluded the followrnq members Charles C Greer noxv udge rn Cambrra County Charles M Lemmon ennre R Beale Mary R Beale Cora M Wagoner Lucy Marnhart Arvrlla Barnes essre A Tommrns L Grace Young and ohn W Gocher Mr Gocher rs the father of Mrss Alrce M uocher 1 member of the present faculty of the school ORATION There comes a trme rn ex ery nun s lrfe xx hen he pauses rn hrs on xxard career and thrnks of the past Hoxx short hrs lrfe seems' The vears are as days and the hours as seconds He never fully realrzes untrl then the full force of the thought that the future comes xxrth folded wrnqs whrle the past flres xvrth eagles prnrons Hrs reflectrons may be pleasant or thev may be the rexerse ac cordrnq to the lrfe he has led He can see the results of hrs actrons qood as well as bad and thrs rs the trme when he can drstrnqursh between them If he be rn a penrtentral mood perhaps he determrnes to do what he can to rectrfy hrs mrstakes Thrs rs not alwavs possrble however especrally rf he rs old Then he sees that he should have retrospected earlrer rn lrfe new step we would try to thrnk of srmrlar ertperrences rn the past and therr effects we should be sax ed from makrng many blunders Young people generally rush rnto anx nexx project wrthout thrnkrng whrle to older people the habrt of retrospectron comes more naturally The aged haxrng but lrttle of the future before them lrxe rn the past A roseate glamous sheds rts hue on ex ery path untrred And dreamrng youth thrnks to hrs quest no good mav be denred Whrlst tremblrnq age turns back the page and through the record xarn Strrves hard to fell the ancrent zeal and lrve the past agarn People lrxe a great deal faster noxv than they drd rn past trmes Then they were content to lrxe on rn the same xx av day after day wrth nothrng to drstrngursh one day from another Noxx there must be ex crtement rn a person s lrfe or rt rs thought not xx orth the lrxrng Work xxhrch taxed the powers of men rn those days rs now done by boys Lookrng back over the hrstory of a country for a trme how strange rt all seems' Take the hrstory of the Unrted States for example Begrn wrth the landrng of the Prlgrrms on Plvmouth rock We can see them stepprng on the rock from the boats of the Mayflower They are dressed xerv srmplv and fully realrze what hardshrps they xx rll haxe to endure They burld therr log huts and burld them for comfort and conx enrence and not for elegance Then xxe see the growth of the colony and the settlement of other toxx ns untrl frnally there xx ere thrrteen colonres xxrdely separated srnce the only means of communrcatron xx as on horseback and the trme re qurred for the journey one or txxo xx eeks and sornetrmes more I V' ' K ' Y I . - n . . . - r - f' . . , c . . V L . . V . . n . 7. . . , A Y v C ' I N Z . . . . . , . This is a habit every person should possess. lf, before taking any . 1 I . . . . . . . . y A V ' ' ' ' 4 V V , , V . . ' V. , . . V Y . - ' ' ' r 1 ' C ' ' h t