Augsburg College - Augsburgian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Foreword An Approach Through Music Music has a content that eludes statement in any medium other than the one for which it was created. And so with the 1957 AUGSBURGIAN. Since 1869, the year of composition, Augsburg’s symphonic history has taken the school through a duration of eighty-eight years in harmony, dissonance and intensity laden with the timbre of hard work, much joy and a realization of much accomplishment. We usually refer to a sonata as being played by a solo instrument or by several such instruments grouped together into a small chamber ensemble. You, as a stu- dent at Augsburg, become as a sonata as you attend classes, become a club member or roam aimlessly around the campus. Listen to the overtones of daily activity and sense the spirit which is offered you. See it here in these pages as it is recaptured in the pictures and in the captions. You have herein become an instru- ment from which emits the melody of Augsburg Col- lege during 1956 and 1957. The symphony, on the other hand, is a composition to be played by a large number of instruments compris- ing the modern symphony orchestra. Here again we can see our parallel in the past eighty-eight years. For every key on our school’s piano we have represented a year in the past. For every key therein lies many past overtones of memory, planning, joy, sorrow, disap- pointment and failure. Nonetheless, it is a history that has become a part of an even larger opus, the Creation Itself. Let us then take up our music, our instruments and record the sonata of 1956 - 57 as we page through our selection, “Variations on a Theme of Augsburg” from the 1957 Augsburgian. 4

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