Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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OUR GIRLS’ GLEE CLUB. I”T IS the custom for each High School to have many organizations, such as boys’ and girls’ clubs, orchestras, etc., and prominent among such organizations at Commerce High is the Girls’ Glee Club. The members of the club are chosen from all of the four classes, Freshmen, •Sophomores. Juniors and Seniors. No one is excluded because she has not enough points, as is the case in many schools. The only restriction placed upon us is that our number must not exceed thirty. Our club was not organized for the purpose of giving concerts or any musical productions, but rather for the purpose of representing our school in a musical way among the other schools of the city. We are organized in the same manner as other clubs. Our officers are, a president, a secretary and treasurer, and a librarian. Ever since our organization we have attended rehearsals, have worked hard and have tried our best to attain success. Our Club is deeply indebted to Mr. Manville for his kindness and untiring patience in our guidance among those many twisted and crooked paths of learning which eventually lead to song and music. ELM A MAXTEY, ’13. 73

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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

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