Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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THE HIGH SCHOOL OF COMMERCE ORCHESTRA. DURING the past year a larger number of our pupils than usual have availed themselves of the privileges of the Orchestra. The character of the music has been kept up to the standard set in previous years, and in the Annual Concert program there was a strong predominance of classical selections. Each rehearsal has been found valuable, many of them worth fully as much as a private lesson to the pupil. The necessity for accuracy; the drill in combination of instruments; the confidence inspired; with many other advantages to each player, are eloquent arguments for the desirability and value of membership by every one who desires to make the most of his talent for music. The Orchestra was assisted in the Concert by the Glee Clubs of our school and the Glenville High School, and by the organization known as Ye Menne Syngers Quartette. The program was as follows: PAKx I. Wedding March 1 Midsummer Night’s Dream ' ’ The Orchestra Mendelssohn Chorus “Down in the Dewy Dell The Glee Clubs Smart Selection “Humoreske” The Orchestra Dvorak Description “The City Choir” The Quartette Parks Selection “Faust” The Orchestra PART II. Gounod March “ Tan n ha user” The Orchestra JTaffner Song “Heather Rose” The Glee Clubs Protheroe Overture “William Tei.l” The Orchestra Possim The Chinese Maid “Little Peeweet” The Quartette Petrie Overture “Napoleon” The Orchestra Fredrick The singing of the Glee Clubs was well done, showing careful training on the part of their instructor. Their clearness of enunciation deserves special mention. Roth selections were encored, in responses to which they sang, “Drink to me only with Thine Eyes,” and “Winter is the Time of Sport.” The Quartette was received with the usual enthusiasm, and to repeated encores sang “Humpty Dumpty.” and “Mammy’s Little Lamb.” In starting the program the Orchestra used the Mendelssohn Wedding March, and the enthusiasm of the drums in the heavier strains seemed to reach 71

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the audience at the very beginning, carrying them along by its contagion. The quieter melody of the Ilumoreske gave opportunity for the organization to show a greater degree of polish, and here was brought out the fact that some careful work had been done. The introduction to the Faust Selection would have done credit to the highest training of professionals. The entire selection was well rendered and the dash of the soldiers’ chorus in the finale was full of vim. The Tannhauser March, the “Hail Bright Abode” of the Opera opened the second part of the program and showed more of the results of steady drill in its unanimity of response to the baton, but the climax of the evening was reached in the William Tell Overture. The cello solo picturing the dawn was clear and unhesitating; the fury of the wind by the strings in the roaring storm over the thundering of the drums and interspersed with the frightened calls of the shelter-seeking birds by the flute and clarinets was splendidly realistic; the quiet obligato of the calm was like the dripping of the raindrops while the black clouds retreat in the summer sky; the finale with its rythmic and irresistible crash of brass under the melodies of the wood and strings seemed like the harnessed and driven whirlwind carrying a rack of tumbling scurrying clouds. The Orchestra, which has been under the direction of our Assistant Principal since its organization over three years ago, with a few from outside the school who kindly assisted in the concert, is as follows: Director of Vocal Music J. 0. Hanville Director of Instrumental Music 5. ?. lloorer FIRST VIOLIN Isadore Samuels Louis Rotbart Mario Bittel Ruth Kerr Louis Korbel Frank Volf Gvnnville Jacque E. M. Burbank 0. Manville FLUTE F. R. Witte FIRST CORNET II. T. McMyler Fred Bergold 2d CORNET Isadoro Meiivitz William Hruby SECOND VIOLIN Max Maysmnn Abraham Schochtovitz Vladimir Tumn Herbert Warnsmnn Benjamin Kasner Joe Kohl MANDOLIN Olive Howie CLARINET Paul Kollie H. B. Peterman TROMBONE H. C. Ditmar O. F. Baughman 72 VIOLA II. G. Ihsen VIOLONCELLO Elsie Apathy Blanche Caldwell Douglass Campbell BASS VIOL Edith Caldwell C. D. McCullough PIANO Helma Gairing Gertrude Gilmour H.nidec H. Hoover DRUMS Arthur Haas Morse Opper