Cissna High School - Review Yearbook (Cissna Park, IL)

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., 'FGA REVIEW We must go on and build today On what we builded yesterday. And sure as life and death and day ' Today will make our yesterday. And so it is with music. Our musical activity has been well builded this year. It rests solidly on the yesterdays of the last four years' musical training. The enthusiasm and interest manifested in the Glee Clubs, Or- chestra, and Chorus grows yearly. The Orchestra has developed considerably this year. The Chorus which is composed of the members of the school Glee Clubs won second place in the Sub-District Musical Contest at Normal, Illinois, May nine- teenth. Roma Dryden also placed second in the Violin contest. The selections which these various groups have studied are of the best music which is on the-.market for such organizations. Classical numbers, well known poems set to music, selections from Grand Opera, simplified ar- rangements from old masters as well as the music of modern day composers has been carefully worked up. Under the direction of Miss Brown during the first semester the student body became acquainted with the foremost composers and their best known works. This was accomplished through reports of the lives and works of these eminent musicians given by the students during' one General Assembly period a week. Also their most well known compositions were presented by some of the students and the use of the phonograph. Thus not only has today taught us the appreciation of really good music but it will become the yesterday that will stand out as the sign post to the best in music and in life. thirty-four

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. 153 REVIEW Back row: Miss Brown, E. Brown, H. Knake, W. Cluver, F. Whitaker, C. Berg, R. Schmidt, W. Farnsworth, F. Rothery. Front row: G. King, D. Schmidt, N. Merideth, R. Dryden, O. Aeschliman. Cissna Park Community High School, May 3, 1928. Dear General Public: We want to tell you just how much joy and benefit we have derived from our Orchestra this year. Here is the picture we had taken of it. As you see it is quite well balanced as to instrumentation. There are two saxophones, four clarinets, one cornet, four violins, one cello and a drum. The otier cornetist, Delbert Pendergast, was not here the day the picture was ta en. Our Orchestra has learned about fifteen selections this year. We practice every Thursday afternoon. We members of the Orchestra learn to be independent while playing, but yet to play with others in a way which blend all parts together with none predominant. Our Orchestra played several selections for the Fair early in the fall and a combination of Christmas Songs for the Christmas program. For the Senior play they presented The Old Clock, Flower Song by Sange, Santa Lucia and America the Beautiful. We also played for the Inter- Society Contest and Commencement. We were one of six Orchestras en- tered in the Whippet Six Contest and of the District Contest. The pieces used in competing in these contests were Pilgrim's Chorus from Tann- hauser and The Old Clock. Besides this, the hours of Orchestra practice have been some of the jolliest we had throughout the school year and they will bring many happy memories. Sincerely yours, THE ORCHESTRA. zhirty-live