Modesto Junior College - Buccaneer Yearbook (Modesto, CA)

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BUCCANEER - 1937 51 The Women's Glee Club cluding Newman, Patterson, Lodi, So- nora, and Modesto. During Easter vacation in March, the men attended the Westerii Music conference in San Francisco at the Hotel Fairmont in response to an in- vitation. Four years ago this organi- zation received such an invitation for the first time. True Christmas spirit was found when these two clubs combined just before Christmas vacation to sing a pageant in the Presbyterian Church, in candlelight with each member robed in black. And in early May both clubs went to Stockton for the Northern Califor- nia Junior College Music Association. The entire music department, glee clubs, A Capella choir, band and or- chestra pooled their respective talents to present a recital May 25 ch in the Modesto High School auditorium. Combining successfully once more, the men and women sang for bacca- laureate services to conclude their year's activity. Mrs. Love says the caliber of the club was unusually good. She has had three superior groups and counts this year,s among them. McKnight found his group equally Robert W. McKnight, director of Women's Glee satisfactory having done, outstanding workf, Two other vocal groups have repre- sented JC well in the past year, the oratorio class and the A Capella choir. In November the former, a fall organi- zation only, presented Haydn's third mass in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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50 1 93 7 - BUCCANEER -uu-un- 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1- 1,.,,1uu1,,,,1nu1,,,,..,,,.1m....uu1un1nn1,m1.m1,.,,1un1nu1.. 5, aa are ' Mrs. Edna Barr Love, head of the college music department OUT INTO THE TERRITORY sur- rounding Modesto, into the assembly hall and before civic organizations go the Men's and Women's Glee Clubs to sing for their last year as two separate groups. During the coming school year, combined groups including a men's oc- tette, a women's octette, women's trio, mixed choruses and roundtable singers will represent JC's vocal courses. Some experimentation with the roundtable system was done this year with Jeanne Cool, Charlotte Smith, Alice Pendergrass, Charles Harding, Bruce Selkirk, Carl Hunter, Ralph Knapp, Gordon Pool, and David Ryd- bom as the table singers. Both the glee clubs, men under the direction of Mrs. Edna Barr Love and women under Robert W. McKnight, the oratorio class directed by both in- structors and the A Capella choir direc- ted by McKnight spent a year packed with engagements from assemblies to radio programs. The women sang for high schools in Hilmar, Livingston, Turlock, Ceres, Stockton, and Hayward. Cn May 29th they broadcast over KGO. Likewise, the men sang in high schools in neighboring communities in- The Mens' Glee Club

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52p W pet OW Charlotte Smith and Carl Hunter star in JC opera POMP AND BOMBASITY, stirring marches-and love songs, color and gayety-all were rolled into the music departmentis production of the mu- sical satire, The Chocolate Soldier. Pre- sented March 16 to a capacity audience in the Strand Theatre, this opera goes on record as the best in MJC's musical history. Charlotte Smith, as romantic Na- dina Popoff, completely captured the hearts of the patrons with her quick vivaciousness, fine voice, and poise, and Carl Hunter singing the title role of 1937 - BUCCANEER :Fi calm Lieutenant Bumerli held the audi- ence from his iirst entrance until the final curtain.- Jeanne Cool, singing the motherg David Rydbom as the pompous colon- alg John Stolp as Alexiusg Lucyle Wil- son as comely Mascha, and Ralph Knapp as noisy Massakroff completed the cast supported by a strong chorus of thirty-four. And to Mrs. Edna Barr Love goes the credit for this particularly fine production made possible largely by her intensive and ceaseless Work. Principals of Wilson and Stolp The Chocolate Soldier Smith and Huiiter ,T