Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute - Breezes Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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20 D. M. C. I. BREEZES “The Sea Garden.” So well did they sing and so greatly pleased was Henri Verbrugghen that he led the applause until they again sang the first piece. The National Anthem closed the programme, and to show their appreciation for the orchestra and its conductor, the choir sang one verse of “ ' My Country, ’Tis of Thee,” the American National Anthem. The visit of the Minneapolis musicians again brings to mind the fact that Canada is still without a national orchestra. What Minneapolis as a city has been successful in doing for a quarter of a century, is surely possible for a nation like Canada. —Frank McIntosh, 22. SCHOOL COMPETITION ORCHESTRA Back Row (left to right)—Gordon McLean, Robert Brown, Norman Wilde, John Mowal, Mervyn Sprung, Bruce Laking, Harry Abbit. Front Row—Annie Metzack, Evelyn Ivens, Beatrice Deeks, Margaret Steele, Jean McAllister and Valeria Karpetz. GLEE CLUB EXECUTIVE Left to right—W. Newman, D. Hilton, M. Norrie, B. Williamson, E. Wildgoose, M. Setter, J. Easterbrook.

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D. M. C. I. BREEZES 19 “The Mikado.” This orchestra contained about forty instruments, so surely, in a school of this size we ought to be given more support. —G.M., Room 14. THE MINNEAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The Minneapolis ' Symphony Orchestra’s concert in Winnipeg on Tuesday, May 7th, certainly proved a splendid ending to the musical season of 1928-29. The Minneapolis men had the enterprise to venture and were fortunate enough to secure Emil Oberhoffer, who founded the orchestra, which has given Minneapolis a reputation as a city of art and music. This year’s orchestra was led by Henri Verbrugghen. Winnipeg has drawn several times upon Minneapolis to supply the finest music in Western Canada, and it one time formed a partnership with the Win¬ nipeg Oratorio Society, which in recent years has been silent. Several thousand school children flocked to the Amphitheatre on the afternoon of May 7th, to hear the seventy Minneapolis musicians in their twenty-sixth season, produce an orchestral concert not equalled here for some time. The group of shouting and laughing children observed strict silence during the programme, enabling themselves and their elders to enjoy the concert thoroughly. Great applause was tendered the orchestra at its appearance on the stage, but a “greater-to-do” was handed out to Henri Verbrugghen, the noted and well-known conductor. “0 Canada,” the usual opening number, went out on the air with the splendid accompaniment of the orchestra, who played it with zest and vigour, greatly appreciated by all Canadians present. Victor Herbert’s “March of the Toys,” from “Babes in Toyland,” was the first piece from a well selected programme. The instruments in the orchestra played with the same automatic, awkward precision as the toys in the opera, who came to life and marched around the room. The world-wide popular overture from the “Merry Wives of Windsor,” followed, displaying the fairy-like atmosphere in Windsor Park at midnight. The longest hut most interesting part of the programme was the “Suite from the. Ballet ‘Sylvia,’ ” by Leo Delibes. After a short pre¬ lude the piece binds into a slow graceful waltz and then the well-known “Pizzicati”, played by plucked strings. The final number, “The Fol¬ lowers of Bacchus,” in its fastastic march movement, seemed to keep everybody spellbound but for the tapping feet of the smaller students. The fourth number, led by the harp, violin, xylophone, was the “Dance Macabre” (“Dance of Death”). The Hungarian national dance, “Czar’das,” served as a “Grand Finale,” to the orchestral pro¬ gramme, because of its slow “Lassen” and a rapid “ ' Priska.” In all the concert proved an inspiration as well as an education to all. A uniformed choir from the Alexandra, Laura Secord, Luxton, Mulvey, and Principal Sparling schools, under Mr. J. J. Wilkinson, provided the audience with two songs, “Dabbling in the Dew,” and

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D. M. C. I. BREEZES 21 Literary THE THRUSH There’s a sudden ripple of song That I hear down the woodland way, A tangle of silvery notes, A lilt of laughter gay. There’s a strain that floats out afar O’er the deep of the shadowy dells, Where the wind rings an answer sweet Prom the jingling flower bells. There’s a sudden ripple of song, And the world seems made anew, And the flare of the wintry sun Streams out from a sky of blue, While the merry thrush pours out on high His wonderful wild sweet strain, With its dream of winter passing by And its promise of spring again. -—Margaret Chappie, Room 56. STUDENT GOVERNMENT Youth is the time of preparation for citizenship. Today the school society is regarded as a unit for the promotion of citizenship training. If the schools are to train the youth for citizenship, they must provide some opportunity for the boys and girls to practise the art of governing themselves, because Canada is supposed to be a self-govern¬ ing nation. In Manitoba there are many schools conducted as if they were fit tmg the youth for citizenship in an autocracy where the belief has been disseminated as “obedience to the will of an overlord.’’ Autocracy and democracy will never unite to make a democratic form of government. One of the strongest arguments for pupil participation, is that it pro¬ duces a higher type of citizenship in a democracy, by providing pupils with opportunities to follow democratic principles in their government. Student government should result from the enthusiastic desire of