Deering High School - Amethyst Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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DEERING HIGH SCHOOL BAND This year the Deering High School Band soared to even greater musical heights. Numbering over 80 musicians, it has proven itself to be among the best of Maine and New England organizations-once again. The annual concert was an overwhelming suc- cess. The Band played also at the March vesper concert in the auditorium and again won highest ratings at the Maine Music Festival in Portland and the New England Festival at Lewiston in May. Program for the concert follows: God Bless America ..,......,........,......... March Gloria ..,... Berlin Losev Overture Coriolan ,....,......,. Beethoven Trumpet solo, American Fantasia, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp ...................,,,.....,,........,.........., ........ G olclman Soloist, ROBERT CUMMINGS March El Capitan ...............,.,............,,.,.,......................,.,......., ,..... S ousa Conducted by JOSEPH SKEHAN The Pilgrims Chorus .....,......,... .....,,,...............,.............,,,.....,.. .,......,. V e rdi Trombone solo The Wanderer ,,........,.,...,...,......,....,...,,,...,...., ....... H arlow Soloist, CHARLES ANDERSON March, 'QArmy and Navy .......,.....,.,,...,,.........,...,..............,.......,., ..,.,.,. M addy Conductor, DONALD EMMONS Woodwind Ensemble, Gavotte . ,,..... ...........................,..,,., ,,,.,.,. S a franelz Down South ..., Myddleton Bacchanale ....,,...............,......,,..,...,,,,.,...,,.. ...,... S aint-Saens Xylophone Solo, uAmerican Patrol ,.,,.....,.............,,..., ..,,..,... .,,.... M e aclyam Soloist, PHYLLIS HAMMOND March Columbia Universityv .....,..,.,,.,,...,,........... ....,,....,... .....................,. F l int Twirling Exhibition .......,.,,,... ..,..,. P ATRICIA DODGE The Star Spangled Banner ,.....,.......,....... .............,,..... ..........................................,,.....,., K e y The Band will lose by graduation, Charles Anderson, Cynthia Binford, Janet Camp- bell, Albert Cobb, Webster Dyer, Harry Eddy, Donald Hobbs, Edward Lincoln, Donald Emmons, Frank Hodgdon, Stanley James, George Kern, Robert Marcous, Hayward Maxheld, Arlene Merrill, Walter Meserve, Richard McFarland, Shirley Raymond, Neal Richardson, Joseph Slcehan, Paul Stanton, Madelyn Stover, Ruth Wyman, and Lawrence Harding. i131

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D. H. S. ORCHESTRA The Deering High School orchestra has completed one of the busiest and most suc- cessful years in its history. The group, conducted for the second year by Robert C. English, carried away orchestral honors at the Lewiston New England Music Festival in May, as well as in the Maine State Festival in Portland. Two concerts were given by the orchestra in the course of the year, one in December, the other in April. The group played at a vesper concert with the band and Glee Clubs in March, and furnished pre-curtain music at the Senior Class Play. The orchestra will play at the City Hall graduation exercises, as in past years. William Prouty was concert master of the 1940-1941 orchestra. Program for the December concert follows: Bourree, Bach, Sarabande, Bach, Trum- pet Voluntary, Purcell, Minuet in E, Mozart, Where Ere You Walk and Dio Possent, sung by John March, '39, with Mrs. Richard Gustafson, accompanist, Italians in Algeria, Two Grenadiers, Trade Winds, Duna, also sung by Mr. Marsh, Nocturne, King, and In- troduction to Act Hlof Lohengrin, Wagner. Among the selections played at the April 25 concert which was given in the school auditorium were: Valse Triste, Sibelius, Fugue in G Minor fThe Little Fugusj, Bach, Londonderry Air and Gypsy Melody, traditional, Prelude in G Minor, Rachmaninoff, and Tango, Albeniz. ORCHESTRA MEMBERS Front Row, Left to Right-Hicks, Cushman, Beal, Morrill, Robinson, Hobbs, Morgan, Horn, Sawyer, Welsh. Second Row, Left to Right-Weeks, Raymond, Norton, Cushman, Corthell, Standley, Nisbet, Kuvent, Weed, Barnes. Third Row, Left to Right-Kelley, Skehan, Stevens, Meserve, Hennessey, Hobbs. Fourth Row, Left to Right-Ricker, Haskell, Anderson, Brooks, Thurrell, Whittemore, Mains, Phillips, Cook, Keyes. i151