Ardsley High School - Ardsleyan Yearbook (Ardsley, NY)

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B GLE CURP SEATED Terry Miller Margorre Acker Ann Yottes Jacqueline Blasberg Bernadette Kinney Virginia Brennan Eleanor Wahlqurst Jack Koster Paul Roberts Richard Arone Anthony DeAngelo William Woessner Theodore Steenwerth STANDING Nina Jo Miller Beverly Crrstrano Kathryn Murray Dorothy Denari FIRST ROW f0n Stagel Barbara Slaybaugh Julia Montaruli George Bagge Dolores Garnier Robert George Conchetta Stagliano Charles Buckes Richard Moore SECOND ROW f0n Stagel Robert Kamke Charles DeGu1sto John Yottes Jean Thomas Patrick Cristello Daniel Gorman MU H1 DEPARTMiNT The two aims of the music department this year have been to give a large magorrty of the pupils pleasurable musical experiences and to foster and develop the talent of those pupils with outstanding ability In the grades the singing of enJoyable and interesting songs is emphasized The upper grades stress music reading and the place of music in American culture Folk songs particularly American folk songs are memorized The girls chorus of forty eight voices have presented several assembly programs Together with the other choruses they presented a Christmas assembly at which they sang Schuberts Ave Maria At other programs they have presented numbers by romantic and modern composers including Jerome Kern Cole Porter and George Gershwin The male chorus of forty voices has learned a number of songs from various branches of the service as well as Joining with the girls chorus to form a mixed chorus The Junior chorus composed of girls in the seventh and eighth grades has assisted at special programs The eighteen piece band has worked largely on school songs and marches They have plaved for several of the basketball games The orchestra has been working for good tone quality and instrumental balance. So far as possible class lessons and private lessons are given on all of the band and orchestra instruments free of charge. Certain of the less common instruments are owned by the school and loaned to the most promising pupils. A drum and bugle corps consisting of six drummers ten buglers and four drum majorettes offers excellent training in rhythm and in marching. They have also played for basketball games. All of the music organizations have tried to work with the other departments of the school to make well-rounded cultured citizens.

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