Eastern High School of Commerce - Eastern Echo Yearbook (Toronto, Ontario Canada)

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4? 7 if 5 xy 0-7 SS Sf-, ' as -1 xx OSH MUSICAL ANALYSIS JACK Davin, 3S1 These days we are confronted with two distinct kinds of music. First there are opera, symphonic and classical music, which are the best there are in this world. Secondly, there is popular music. which we hear by far the most every day on our radios. Opera music is appreciated most by people who understand it in all its ways: classical, a less serious style, is enjoyed by the average music lover: popular by the general public. Lately some men have created some t'stuff called jazz , which is as bad as the name itself. and it also sounds worse. It shows how much some people know of music when they applaud it on the radio. Jazz is not to be classed as music, but should be put aside as a curse to real musical appreci- keation. Radio has its good and bad programs. The following are worth your attention: Ford Sunday Evening Hour, General Motors Program, Metropolitan Opera Broadcast, Firestone Program, Cities Service Program, Philharmonic Symphony Program. SCHOOL 'YMUSIC NOTES The piano recitals at the school on Thurs- days in the first lunch period, have been a real treat. thanks to Mrs. Procunier, the pianist. It is very enjoyable to listen to the pieces selected in school hours, while we are relaxing from the mornings activities. The Girls? Chorus sang at the Commence- ment and the Christmas concert, and is under EASTERN ECHO the able leadership of Miss Howard. The Chorus gave two pleasing numbers at the Commencement, and sang with a very good harmonic tone. MUSIC MASTERS' SERIES J. SA11BRook, SA Those who love piano have been given a wonderful opgortunity this season at the Ea- ton .Xuditorium through the t'Music Masters' Series , consisting of five piano recitals by five world-famous pianists. Amid the refine- ment and stateliness of this magnificent audi- torium, and with music lovers surrounding one, it certainly makes such an event most effective and memorable. Our first enjoyable experience was in Oc- tober, when Harold Bauer. an English pian- ist, opened the series. It was quite notice- able that this musician was a scholar. His own re-arrangement of Handels suite, Over- ture , .-Xllemanden, Sarabande , Couran- te , t'Piece , and 'I-Xir varie . refreshened it and yet did not lessen our appreciation of Handel's skill. The last movement, Air va- rie- , was based on Handels famous UThe Harmonious Blacksmith . Schubert's 'fIm- promptu in A Flat and IJebussy's La Ca- thedral engloutieu were also sensational parts of his fine programme. At our second concert, in December, we heard A Giant of the Keyboard , the French pianist, Robert Casadesus. who showed great polish to his playing. His Schubert number, Papillons , exhibited his superb mastery of the piano. Scarlotti, Debussy, and Chopin were also represented in his programme. Our january concert brought us a surprise: Albert Hirsh, young American pianist of Thirty-seven

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Quiet please ' ' Quiet Please read the sign on the door of the glass-enclosed room. .X shabbily-dressed woman p u sh e d her daughter toward the door. Don't be scared. Sally, she said. Sing like you do at home. The announcer was a pleasant man. He took Sally by the hand and told the micro- phone she was Sally Deane, just 10 years oldn, who was going to sing and dance. Sally's ambition was to star in musical comedies. t'Give her a great, big handfl he said. Mrs. Deane sat outside the glass-enclosed room with other anxious parents, next to a sad-eyed young man with a violin case and a painted girl who looked bored and said these amatchoor hours were getting lousy. But Mrs. Deane had no eyes for the young man or the painted girl. Sally had started to sing. Her voice rose ina happy lilt from the glass-enclosed room. Even the painted girl listened and the sad-eyed young man looked less sad. Then Sally danced, the rhythmic patter of her feet tapping out the tempo of the tune, The announcer was promising great things for Sally. The painted girl and the young man with the violin case had gone inside. Sally was being called back. Mrs. Deane smiled hap- pily, recalling the applause of the days when she sang and danced, but only in the chorus. For Sally she had visions of better things. There would be a star's dressing room and orchids and wealth and fame. But, the program was over now. Sally skipped at her mother's side, clasping a precious package in her hand. It was the gift she had won, and she remembered what the announcer had said about her becoming a great star one day. Sally's feet twinkled across a busy street. A horn sounded and tires screeched on dusty pavement: a thud, a rush of feet! Mrs. Thirty-six hy 3l.XDEl.INE Masox, 3C Deane knelt beside the child. Crowds ap- peared from nowhere. A policeman took charge and the clang of an ambulance was heard. ln a long, white corridor paced a shabily- dressed woman, her eyes anxious. A nurse. too brisk and business-like. hurried by, Down the long corridor Mrs. Deane walked. From an elevator they wheeled Sally, her blond prettiness shadowed by Death. Mrs. Deane scanned the faces of the attendants for some sign, but they were all too brisk and business-like. While the mother watched, they moved Sally into one of the rooms. and over the door was the sign, t'Quiet Please . 455159 COMPENSATION With tolling head, and drooping eye, And fixed and 'vacant stare, She sits, of any pitying sigh She dimly is aware. She sits, hands folded patiently, Her frail and wasted frame, Her great eyes which moved listlessly, Same soul forgot to claim. Like windows of a house, her eyes, l.Vo one abiding tlzerej, Are wholly empty of surprise, High hope, or deep despair. I think her soul in jealous fear Of dimming on this earth, Lingers an some relestial sphere In radianre of mirth. .-1 pale, thin wraithg what need has she In this w0rld's work to share? Chained though her mortal self may be- Her soul is lodged elsewhere. DOROTHY SIGBIIJND, Special I EASTERN ECHO

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