Cheltenham High School - El Delator Yearbook (Cheltenham, PA)

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,I .J BAND ,A THE successful musical year dis la chief feature of a was the dazzling p y presented by the b d ' an in their bright new 'f uniforms, m d l ' uni orms. The o eed along the lin es of a military outfit contribution of fo ' ' , were the ur organizations and th l ey represented many hours o hard work by all the participating parties. The organizations, consisting of the Student Council, Student Body, Home and School Association, and School Board, raised the necessary large sum through donations and by holding social benefits. The band drilled and played at all the football games and besides they marched in the inaugural parade of Governor James at Harrisburg. The band was under the co-leadership of Mr. W. Clair Hower, music-master, and Mr, Robert I. White, drill-master. The school symphonic orchestra, consisting of some fifty odd students, completed another successful year under the able leader- ship of Mr, Walker D. Taylor, Chairman of the Music Department. Beside forming the backbone of the operetta, they found time to provide music for assembl y programs as well as for our Commence! ment Exercises. On December l7 th M , e usic Department presented an en- tirely new feature. lt had b een the dream of the music directors Eighteen

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al program. of Cheltenham to have some sort of combined music This year their dream came true in the form of what was called the Music Festival. lt was made possible through the combined efforts of all the musical organizations in the school. It proved to be such a social and musical success that plans for a similar program were made for the coming year. It will, no doubt, be an annual event at Cheltenham. Participating units in this festival were Band, Orchestra, Boys' Double Quartet, Girls' Double Quartet, String Ensemble, Mixed Chorus and the Brass Quartet. Features of the evening were the musical enactment of an old- fashioned country melodrama by the band with solo work by Donald Straka, and the presentation of Hiawatha, by a combined boys' and girls' chorus with a long and well presented solo by James Sefton. The conductors of the musical were Messrs. Walker D. Taylor and W. Clair Hower. The string Ensemble, commonly known as the Little Sym- phony, played at several special occasions during the school year. Under the leadership of Margaret Delp, the group met during and The were entirely without spon- after schoo sorship. , I hours to rehearse. y ORCHESTRA Nineteen