Eastern Mennonite University - Shenandoah Yearbook (Harrisonburg, VA)

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ce Ait v7 “YOU WILL make this palace disappear, slaves.”’ DIRECTOR BOB HOSTETTER smoothes a tempo during dress rehearsal. KING SOLOMON (JOHN YODER) admonishes the Butterfly’s wife (Flora Yoder) to remember what could happen if her husband (Lamar Myers) stamp- ed his foot. 20

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Uy iv ery Fo . ws SE: Lx t 5 “ 4 id a ait THE MANIFEST DESTINY. Informal lecture-music was a traveling minstrel in blue jeans, Michael Cooney playing-telling-singing folk songs. You sat on blankets listening to kazoo and twelve-string guitar, ‘Jim Crack Corn” and “Lord, In That Bourgeois Town.’’ Michael’s warmth relaxed your musical sophistication. The rhetoric of the Manifest Destiny fascinated you, as fellow students formed a group and sang the poetry of peace and freedom. 19 MICHAEL COONEY shares the spirit of an Old World ballad with Ken Fellenbaum

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ae: “YOU COULDN’T BEND a blade of grass with your stamping.” SOLOMON AND BALKIS Opera was light in Randall Thompson’s Solomon and Balkis, a fantasy of disappearing palaces and djinns and magic rings. The butterfly that dared to stamp helped Solomon subdue his own nine hundred ninety-nine vexacious wives. In sound and color, lights and song, you saw what womenfolk and menfolk are and went away delighted. 21 “ILL BE GOOD. I’m so sorry | spoke.”