Darrow School - Shaker Post Yearbook (New Lebanon, NY)

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The Choir After a short period of breaking in, the choirls activities com- menced admirably under the instruction of Mr. Van Vorst, our choir director. Besides participating in the Sunday chapel services, we sang in the Candlelight Service on the eve of Christmas vacation. ln the spring we sang with the Saint Agnes School Choir and had a dinner dance after. This May the Pittsfield area schools joined in The Berk- shire Festival with us at Darrow. and we also sang with other schools at The Institute of Historical Art at Albany. Besides all this, we sang in the Spring and Commencement Concerts at Darrow. q 1 v Y N 'Ib is Row 1--Cage, Frcrlentlral, Evans, Rohrer, May, McGee, Woytowirrk, Weil, Hill, Walker, Horwitz Heyniger Pannf Rau' 2--Hvlzling. Iflzerlirzrzlt, VanVorst, Haight, Datlelbaum, Watkins, Ffl'll1il'l, Westin, Van Svlllen lurru lfarlon Brooks. Row 3-Warner R. C., Ballantine, Anderson B., Detwiller, Romack, Davis, Stampleman, Wilmot Warnrr R A Croat, Robertson. Page 42

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Emfrson, Low. Hemingway, Lehmann, Laird, Mr. Lehmann at rear. The Shakers The V158-'59 Shakers started this year with high spirits and loud. hellowing voices. Our high spirits continued, hut our loud voices soon softened and became the mel- low tones of a harmoniously distinguished eight. With the help of Mr. Van Vorst, the group gathered a unique repertoire of songs. Among these were 4'Blue lVloonl', g'Nagasaki . Wllhe Three Clochesw, Arivi- derci Roman. Sloop John Bw. 4'Pity',, and many more. The Shakers practiced five times a week in order to prepare for many school functions at which we performed. These functions included dances with the Egg-Syiillard School, Saint Agnes, Fox Hollow. and lVliss Hall's School. We. the Shakers. have enjoyed working and singing together and hope that next year's group will continue to improve and expand as we have strived to do. To them. the best of luck. The Jazz Band The Darrow Jazz Band began its second year of musical activity with great enthusi- asm shortly after the beginning of this year. lVlr. Lehmann, the former leader of the HSpring Street Stompersw la jazz hand at Williams Collegel, instructed us in the principles of Jazz. Primarily, the stress has been on Dixieland jazzg however. the mem- bers of the hand have gone on to develop. in their own spare time. to a satisfactory degree. combined arrangements of progres- sive. semi-Dixieland. and mood jazz of sev- eral varieties. We feel that the hand has improved tremendously since last year. and we sincerely hope that 'iDarrow Jazz will continue to play an increasingly active part in the social and recreational life here at Darrow. Haight tal pianoi, Wilmot, Frenlfel, Rohrer, Brooks, May, Dattelbazum MCC ee.' Page 43

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