Dakota Wesleyan University - Tumbleweed Yearbook (Mitchell, SD)

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MUSICAL ACTIVITIES The Philharmonic Society numbers over three hundred and fifty members of both University and Nlitchell people. The following programs were given the past year: I-Iandel's IVIessiab at the Corn Palace, December fifteenth, with soloists, Eliza- beth lVIacCollin, soprano, and Carl Norrbom, bass, both of Sioux City, Iowa, and Ger- trude Darsie, contralto, and George Darsie, tenor, of Los Angeles, California. The Festival program at the Corn Palace, April eighth, consisted of: SIGURD JoRsA1.EAR SUITE ........... .... G rieg ORCHESTRA UNI-'OLD X713 PoRTALs. . . . . . .Gaunod TIYIXIN TO Music .......... . . .Buck THE HEAVENS ARE 'TELLING ....... . . .Haydn CHORUS GRANDE Po1.oNA1sE BRILLIANTE .............. ..Clwpin MR. GRAHAM AND ORCHESTRA GREETING TO SPRING. . . .... Srmuss 'TRIUZXIPHANT CHORUS. ................... . . .Hfhgner GRCH ESTRA AND CHORUS lllerle Alcock, a contralto, late of the llfletropolitan Opera company presented a concert in the same auditorium on April tenth. The A Capella Choir, a new organization on the campus, sang at all chapel meetings during the year, gave a program of Christmas Carols from all Nationsn in the Chapel, December eighth, presented Dubois' Seven Last Words of Christ at the Metlicndist Church, Good Friday night and assisted Rollin Pease in his Concert at the same place, May twenty-ninth. The 1929-30 Wesleyan Band has seen a very hne increase in membership over that of the previous year. With greater numbers came more strength and ability, resulting in a real musical organization. The Band travelled with the team and student body to every out of town football game, as well as playing for home games and pep meetings. During the basketball season, every home game found the band on the Corn Palace stage, adding its part to the pep and Spirit ofthe evening. One Hundred Sixty-nine

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SOPRANO Crockett, LuVerne Day, Glennie Dewitt, Chyrl Gurtner, Sarah Larson, Laura Ann Loomis, Mt11'iel Lyon, lVIae Okey, Goldie Reynolds, Helen Riter, hdae Rodeniser, Ora Salmans, Evelyn Schussler, Delores Sedgwick, Verna Trent, Bernice XV ares, Irma THE COMBINED GLEE CLUBS TENOR Bauman, lVIelvin Blair, VVi1liam Butterfield, Ernest Lockhart, Frank Lowry, Ira Pate Noyes, Earl Parkinson, Robert Schult, Leland Shearer, Paul ALTO Bachman, Genevieve Bratton, Hazel . Ford, Florence Fortune, Esther Kings, Max'guerite Nlather, Marguerite Palmer, Margaret Redmann, Anna Ross, Hope Rounsevell, Winona Shearer, Florence VValker, Winifred One Hundred Sixty-eight BASS Carhart, Ernest Catey, Robert Campbell, Bruce Graesser, Douglas Hartt, Julian Holtry, Dale Hubbard, Franklin Hyde, James Lenz, Harvey Palmer, Everett Richards, David Schamber, Durward Scott, lVIarvin Sherman, Kenneth

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The University Ensemble is an organization interested in the study of concerted music suitable to such an organization. The Ensemble also makes frequent public appear- ances, besides furnishing music for the college plays at the Nletropolitan theatre. One of the most delightful of instrumental ensembles is the String Quartet. The greatest composers have all made contributions to string quartet literature. The Univer- sity quartet studies these beautiful works and presents some of them each year in a public CODCCIT. One Hundred Seventy