Crawfordsville High School - Athenian Yearbook (Crawfordsville, IN)

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aaamcnmn Senior Band Fifty-six talented musicians compose the Band this year. A new arrange- ment 1n the schedule made possible a longer rehearsal period and necessarily a better band. The library is under the care of Francis Holroyd. HUnder the baton of Drum Major Carl Dellotf, thc band displayed its ability to march and has learned to perform the C formation well. As a concert organization, the band is among the best in its class. A concert was given on the afternoon of March 19, and the following program presented: ' ' On the Mall ' '-March. Fountain of Youth ' '-Overture. Flute Solo-Minnie Mildred Knight. Peter Schmoll ' '-Overture. Oboe Solo-Charles Moyer. ' ' Shrine of Liberty ' '-March. Cornet Solo-Leslie Gilkey, The Stars and Stripes Foreveru-March. The Vanished Army -March. The Band and Orchestra each played concerts for the Parent-Teachers' Association convention March 2-1. A lirass Quartette, composed of VVilliam Bennett, George Norman, Sherman Tomlinson and Leslie Gilkey played for the State Teachers Association at Indianapolis last fall. Senior Orchestra The orchestra, though not having as many members from last year as the band, made marked progress. Under the direction of Mr. Gremelspacher, assisted by Concertmistress, Margaret Everson, it has been developed into a group worthy of notice. Those who played in the orchestra for the opera, The Pirates of Penzance , performed very well the parts played by professional musicians, and earned all the credit they received. The program for the orchestra concert included Mozart's 4'Piano Concerton played by Miss Barbara Booe, with orchestra accompaniment, besides solo and ensemble numbers. Music in the Elementary Schools Last year the violin classes from all of the elementary schools of the city combined for a concert at the High School Auditorium. This year, a band also, will be made up of the wind instrument classes from the elementary schools. Since the beginning of the instrumental music in the grade schools three years ago by Mr. Munger, the interest and enthusiasm shown by the parents and pupils has been indicative of the favor with which the classes have been accepted in the elementary schools. The general music classes of the seventh and eighth grades, since they combined into larger groups, have done some excellent work in chorus numbers and find a great deal more pleasure in singing in larger, rather than smaller groups, since the groups are not selected voices. Pane Sixty-one 3

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We ATHCHIAD CHORUS OF GIRLS-DAUGHTERS Beulah Alexander, Julia Alexander, Doris Bayless, Helen Curtis, Vivian Cruea, Ruby Davidson, Juanita Dukes, Jane Dunnington, Dorothy Edwards, Mable Everson, Eva Foxworthy, Marian Himes, Mary Hood, Kathryn Howell, Isabell Jay, Evelyn Jones, Betty McCarthy, Dorothy Nelson, Caryl Randolph, Marie Beth Roberts, Kathryn Shewey, Carolyn Simms, Eleanor Staiord, Frances Stafford, Charlean Whittington. CHORUS OF PIRATES Robert Cunningham, Carl DeHoff, Paul Edwards, James Houlihan, Robert Hunt, Earl Johnson, Joseph Kelley, George Norman, Forrest Peterman, Zenith Wheat, Freemont Young. CHORUS OF POLICE Carroll Coffing, Ernest Edwards, Eugene Edwards, Charles Groves, James Leaming, Max McCullough. SCENE PLOT Act. I. ln a pirate den on a rocky seashore on the coast of Penzance. About noon. Act. Il. In a ruined chapel on the estate of Major-General Stanley. Late at night a few Weeks later. Time-About 1850. THE STORY The story opens with the pirates, led by their King and his lieutenant, Samuel, celebrating the twenty-first birthday of Frederic, one of their band, who will soon be out of his indentures. It develops that Frederic, who had been apprenticed to the band through a mistake by his nurse, Ruth, decides to quit pirating. The daughters of Major-General Stanley, out for a day on the seashore, chance on the pirates' lair, where they meet Frederic. After hearing his story and seeing him spurned by her sisters, Mabel falls in love with him. The pirates return and capture the girls. When the Major-General arrives and understands the situation he decides to tell a lie to induce the pirates to release his daughters. The pirates accept his story and release the girls. The second act finds the Major much upset over the fact that he told a lie, even to pirates, but anxious that Frederic get started on his mission of leading the police to the pirates den to exterminate the band. The pirate King and Ruth come to Frederick with a discovery which convinces him that he must remain with them. The three of them swear vengeance against the Major and decide to attack the castle, in which the Major lives. The police are on hand and a scene for a lively fight is prepared, but it does not develop because the police demand of the pirates that they yield in the name of Queen Victoria. That is too much for them and they yield at once. Ruth ,saves them from prison by announcing that they are really noble- men, who've done gone wrong . The Major-General in pardoning the pirates invites them to take his daughters, all of whom are beauties , which they willing do, and everybody lives happily ever after. The Chorus sang for the Baccalaurate, Longfellow 's poem, The Singers , set to music by Harvey Gauld. A special group furnished part of the musical program for Commencement. Donald Ratcliff, a member of The National High School Chorus of'1931, sang for the State Teachers' Association at Indianapolis last fall. Page Fifty-nine -