Commerce High School - Commerce Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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is so desirable that this beginning should be the foundation of a permanent boys' musical organization for high class vocal training. Many compliments were expressed for the grace and skill with which Miss Hoover swung the Indian Clubs. This is a species of physical training which is in no way detrimental to girls, but quite beneficial in adding to grace and health. Ye Menne Syngers’ Quartette has been on our concert program three times and received a hearty welcome, responding to several encores. Nothing on the program was given more interested attention nor more hearty applause than the whistling solo of Miss Morton. Her pleasing personality and her excellence of skill entitle her to a place among the first whistlers on the public platform. The rendition of the orchestral numbers surpassed all previous efforts of that organization and set a new record for future emulation. From the ragtime of “Too Much Mustard,” voted by the school, to the climax of the evening in the “SemiVamide Overture,” there was a swing and snap seldom equalled by amateur players. The “Hungarian Dance” showed careful training in the response to the baton, as did also the Andante from the “Surprise Symphony.” It is not much of an exaggeration to say that during the playing of the overture no member of the orchestra and very few in the audience retained any consciousness of things mundane. We “rode on the clouds of harmony and drank deep draughts of the nectar of melody.” THE HIGH SCHOOL OF COMMERCE ORCHESTRA. Director—S. R. Hoover. First Violin. Erwin Sauernheimer John Weizer Lulu Heuer Isadore Samuels Betty Chlad Hazel Stevens Vladimir Tuma Marguerite Clarke Second Violins. Helen Mulac Abraham Schochtovitz Herbert Warnsman Benjamin Kasner Frank Pavilonis Violoncello. G. R. Montgomery Blanche Caldwell Dorothy Kindler Mandolin. Olive Howie Bass. Edith Caldwell First Clarinet. R. L. White Second Clarinet. Kenneth Whiteley Charles Schulman First Flute. F. R. Witte Second Flute. Roy Pelton First Comet. H. T. McMyler Fred Bergold 02 Second Comet Lawrence Brennan Ferdinand Meier Trombone. H. C. Ditmer 0. F. Baughman Bells. Helen Stuhlberger Drums and Traps. Arthur Haas Harry Edelstein Piano. Florence McCorkindale Ruth Chesses

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THE FOURTH ANNUAL CONCERT. “HP HE largest audience and the best concert in the history of the A school,” was the verdict of those who attended the Fourth Annual Concert on the sixteenth of April, at the East Technical High School. Approval and appreciation greeted every number on the program which was arranged as follows: PROGRAM. Part I. Einzugs Marsch from “Boabdil” .................Moszkowski HIGH SCHOOL OF COMMERCE ORCHESTRA. Indian Club Swinging.................................... MISS HAIDEE H. HOOVER. Darkies’ Cradle Song.............................. Holder Funiculi, Funicula..................................Denza HIGH SCHOOL OF COMMERCE OCTETTE. Tres Moutarde................................... Macklin THE ORCHESTRA. Morn Rise........................................Czibulka HIGH SCHOOL OF COMMERCE GLEE CLUB. Annie Laurie..............................Lady John Scott YE MENNE SYNGERS' QUARTETTE. Hungarian Dance ...................................Brahms THE ORCHESTRA. Part II. Andante from the “Surprise Symphony”................Haydn THE ORCHESTRA. Whistling Solo, Amoreuse Waltz.....................Berger MISS ESTHER MORTON. Spring! Spring! ....................................Borch THE GLEE CLUB. Overture to “Semiramide”..........................Rossini THE ORCHESTRA. Good Bye........................................... Parks YE QUARTETTE. Egyptian March.............................Johann Strauss THE ORCHESTRA. In the confidence with which the attacks were made and in the balancing of the parts the Glee Club showed marked improvement over any previous appearance. The girls have produced a result in their work of which the school is justly proud. A new organization appeared for the first time on this program under the title of the Octette. It was kindly received by the audience who gave the encouragement of an encore. Such an organization among the boys ti

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THE GLEE CLUB DANCE. DURING the usual confusion which results from the relating of thrilling holiday experiences, invitations were issued for the Glee Club Dance. This event proved that our fun was not at an end as some had supposed. After a week of mingled anxiety and suspense, punctuated by whispered confidences concerning “Thursday,” the afternoon of January eight arrived. Those young gentlemen who were the fortunate possessors of invitations, together with several members of the faculty, were received by the girls, introduced in a jolly informal manner, and urged to join in the fun. To begin the afternoon’s frolic, the members of the club chose partners for the Grand March. Our president, Miss Evylene Young, with her partner, led about thirty-five couples through many interesting maneuvers. A programme which included only the old dances followed this excellent beginning. We were fortunate in obtaining the services of Mr. Courtney Turney, a graduate of Commerce, who, with his splendid rendering of dance music, made the evening a success. Appropriately, at five o’clock, refreshments, consisting of ice cream with Five O’clock Teas, were served. After another half-hour of general merry-making, the strains of “Home, Sweet Home,” warned us that our good time was at a close. NELLE PALMER, ’14. THE KORMAW INFORMAL PARTY. THURSDAY, December eleven, nineteen hundred thirteen, was a red-letter day in the calendar of the Ecremmoc Club. On that day the members of the Kormaw Society were their hostesses at an informal afternoon party in our “gym.” The party was attended by more boys than usual, because everybody wanted to get some additional practice in dancing before the Senior Formal Dance. The first few couples that danced, wanted a One-Step, but the floor was very slippery, and one couple seemed so bent on sitting down in unexpected places rather suddenly that this caused the other people to return to the old-fashioned dances, and these, everybody enjoyed. The Executive Committee served refreshments so admirably that they were pronounced most capable experts in the catering line. They were assisted by Ralph Mullen, and as the girls saw him break all records (by eating four pieces of ice cream and twenty-nine crackers while helping [?]), they congratulated one another that they had only one outside helper. Everybody had an agreeable and delightful time. When, however, the boys insisted upon finding out how many dances the Kormaw Society could give in a month, they were sadly disappointed with the knowledge that Kormaw dances are limited. FLORA BRATBURD. ’14. 03