Cleveland High School - Beacon Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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To the leaders in American music who have contributed so much to our cultural heritage and to the enjoyment ot our leisure, and to the instructors who have given of their talents that others might learn to parti- cipate in and enjoy the se- crets of music which lie hid- den to the passive observer, we, the Senior Classes and the Beacon Staff of l95Z proudly dedicate this book. ,bfi 2 Some of the better known Spirituals are Swing Low Sweet Chariot Sometimes l Feel Like a Motherless Child Look Down That Lonesome Road and I Couldn t Hear Nobody Pray Ella Fitzgerald Bessy Smith Pearl Bailey ' Ethel Waters Louie Armstrong and Lionel Hampton are a few of the gifted Negro vocal- ists who have made our country proud of the American Negro's contribution to our American culture.

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.rw-' 'L jabs' ,Gi 'mu i? '3uv3 u H 'Yr 'ti -'B Jfmr' it THE BEACON Published For The Forty-Fourth Year By The STUDENTS Of The GROVER CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL At St. Louis, Missouri JUNE, 1957 M493 +4-if 31' yicm .5 ,,W,,.. Among the most beautiful Ameri- can folk hymns are the Spirituals of the American Negro, These beautiful poetic expressions of their new Christian faith and hope in the happiness promised in a future lite in compensation for the hardships of exile from their native land and of slavery in their new home are communal in origin.

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N' 6 J' ffff American ballads are parophrases of the old English ballads brought to their new homes by the colonists from their native land, They tell in story form of the new surround- ings in which the early settlers found them- selves. They were popular with our pioneer peoples and they remain so to this day. While many other types of music have come into vogue from time to time, the ballad singer with his guitar has never been entirely re- placed. Realizing that, since the time of the Pilgrims, Americans have demonstrated their originality and ingenuity in all fields, creating new and different cul- tures, and that the descendants of these hearty colonists have excelled commendably in the field of music, bringing forth melodies and rhythms distinctly and intensely American, radiating the characteristics repre- sentative of our land and our land alone, we of the Staff have chosen American Music Through the Years as our theme, and it is our sincere hope that this edi- tion will be favorably received by the student body.