Danville High School - Medley Yearbook (Danville, IL)

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 Ol'K HIGH SCHOOL is most fortunate in possessing an Orchestra and a Mandolin Cluo. both excellent and much appreciated. No organization in the school has deserved more praise than these two societies, and praise which they have freely received. The director of these organizations the Instructor in German is a man who is not only thoroughly acquainted with such work, but one able to keep up the spirit and interest of the members in their practice and performance. The members have shown the loyalty to their school by furnishing music for the Friday morning singing, for all literary entertainments, and for other events, such as minstrels, class plays and special programmes. Not only is each member a good musician, but there exists among them good feeling and harmony, which is necessary to the success of any musical organization. 11 High School Musicale In the High School Assembly Room, on the evening: of March 24, l‘H)4t was held one of the most enjoyable musical events ever given in the history of the school. The organizations taking part were the High School Mandolin t lub. Orchestra. Chorus and the Aeolian ’I rio. The following was the programme : PART I. 1. Waltz—“Ureda” 2. Intermezzo—'“lain” OKCHt.STKA. 3. Overture—“A Night in Paris”- Arouan Thio. 3 Reading “The McSwat Swear Off ” (rOI.DIK LBSHAKT. 5. Patriotic—“ New Hail Columbia ” ClioMt'S (accompanied by Orchestra) INTERMISSION. Willi Jims Morse Weaver Chadwick (». 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. PART II. “Bostonians Woodland Scene- -‘‘To a ild Kov PiiHon Song from “11 I'rovatore ” Mandolin Ci.vh. Kenreih Mac Dowell ■ Verdi Cocal Solo “ My Dreams ” - Ci.akk IIrun (Miss Hki.kx Hai.mkk accompanist) De scriptive—“Frolic of the Imps” SYNOPSIS T«rrl e -Vl.-ck: C.atheriiur of l;. IS«ul - Cajl: • 01 Imps: All I lance: frirtUMd by a Koto Knurn ..f Imp Appearance of Old Nick; Nick Joins !»«■ Dancer : Imp. Chc.ru One o'ClOCk: The Imps Homeward Bound. Waltz— Love’s Dreamland” March—1“Return of the Heroes Mandolin Ci.cn. Carle I on • ran.I March All Waltz: «.»n«l Dance: Roeder Engelmann

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HiawatHa OT LONG ago there was committed one of the greatest crimes known to history. Yet it remains unpunished, and the guilty person is living on its gains. It was the composing of a small innocent looking piece of music, yet there are probably more evil effects from this crime than from others far more terrible to think of. About a year and a half ago there was a young man as happy and as gay as anybody who has nothing to bother him. Of course he had a girl, and while calling on her one evening, she played “Hiawatha” for him. He thought it was a kind of a decent tune, so he asked her to play it again. He went home whistling that tune; that night he dreamed of it; and in the morning went to his office with the same tune in his mouth. During the day his lips were puckered up as though he had eaten a green persimmon and still he whistled the same tunc. He continued till his jaws ached and his tongue grew tired, yet he could not stop. That night he went to a vaudeville performance where he heard the piece played by some kind of a patent noise manufacturer with a long name. The next night he went to a summer garden where he heard “Hiawatha” played by a German band. The night after that he went to a play where the orchestra played it between acts. By this time he could not work, his mind wandered, and his eyes grew dull. His employers fired him, and his girl bounced him because when she had said something about his not loving her any more, he answered her thinking of the tunc that he was so tired of it. After this happened he took his money and made for the woods where he thought the tune would not lie heard. Here he got along pretty well for a time until one evening the farmer’s daughter played “Hiawatha” on the family organ. Then lie was lost, but went deeper into the woods where there were fewer people, but even there he heard it either whistled or played. By this time he thought the wind hummed Hiawatha, the birds sang it, the frogs croaked it. the sheep bleated it, and the roosters crowed it. His mind was nearly gone. The terrible tune give him no rest. He could think of nothing else. One day he tried to drown his troubles and himself in the lake, but just as lie went to take the fatal leap a breeze sprang tip and rippling the surface of the water, made music which the despairing man took to be Hiawatha.” Soon he became a raving maniac, tearing his hair and otherwise spoiling his looks whenever lie heard music. He was taken to an insane asylum where he became one of the wildest of the patients. lie would sit quietly in the cell when there was no noise, but upon hearing the slightest sound, he would jump up and howl, and on hearing music, would rave, beat his head against the wall and break everything breakable in sight. He was not in this condition long, for one day, being unusually quiet he was taken out for a walk. He and his guard were going along the wall fronting tin the street when there broke forth from the opposite side of the wall, the strains of that worn out tune, wrung from a clanging hurd3’-gurdy. The lunatic gave one ear-splitting yell, like that of a lost dog on a moon-lit night, and fell headlong to the ground as dead as the tune that killed him. S. '04. 10

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D. H. S. OrcHestra ROSCOE M. IIIRIO. Director First Vioi.ins—FRANK VAN ETTEN. MABEL FOX. WALTER SMITH. LEONE CRONKHITE. Skconi. Violins—WILMA SMITH. STELLA LAWES. Kutk-EDWARD HALI . Clakinkt FRANK PAYNE. First Coknkt HERMAN DOUGLAS. Skcono Coknkt EDWIN MacMILLAN. Don mi. h Bass HARRIET STEVENS. I’iano- JANET TEN NEK Y. 12