Edina High School - Whigrean Yearbook (Edina, MN)

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Suzanne Manfhe U1; accompanied fhe Con- cerf Choir as fhey performed For You Shall Go Ouf Wifh Joy in fheir hdiday concerf Mr. Edwin Melichar aacJ addresses fhe audi- ence during fhel'r performance as fhe bond pre- pares for fhe nexf song on their program. Corey Scott U n jazzes up fhe music by keeping fhe beat in fhe Varsify Band Concerf. The clon'nef section of Concerf Band played rheir besf for an oufsfonding holiday concerf. HOLIDAY CONCERTS 2'1

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December sparkles WiTh fesrive winter Tunes. T he winTer holidays are always asso- ciaTed wiTh snow, shopping, col- ored lighTs, and music. The choirs and bands Took advanTage of The season as They performed Their annual holiday concerTs. In The vocal music concerT, The sophomore girls made Their debuT in new whiTe robes. Their angelic sounds maTohed perfechy wiTh Their angellio appearance. NexT To appear was VarsiTy Choir. They capTivaTed The audience wiTh We Are The Chorus and added Their own movemenTs for a few laughs. ConcerT Choir finished off The concerT wiTh an ouTsTanding pro- gram. SoloisTs included Peter Nelson T12, in ChrisTmas wiTh The King Sing- ers, Kari Krank HZ, in TTYom Sehole lsreal, and Debbie Haas U 1, in TTSancTus. The Chamber Singers, six- Teen selecT singers from The ConcerT Choir, also made an appearance. The The Treble Choir paid close affenfion To Their direcTor, Mr. Robert Peterson Goa, as They de- bufeo' in Their new robes During The Varsity Band ConcerT, Andy Roy U n concenfrafes on playing, showing Thaf percus- sionfsfs don'f jusf bang on drums all day. 2O HOLIDAY CONCERTS music in The air maTched The mood of The holidays. This year The VarsiTy Band performed an exTra special concerT for Their di- recTor, Mr. Robert Elledge God. For his lasT year as Their direcTor, exTra Time and efforT was puT in and a lengTh- ened concerT of eighT selecTions, in- sTead Of The usual six, was puT TogeTh- er. In facT, jusT a week and a half be- fore The concerT, The band was given a new selecTion, one of The ToughesT in The program, Sleigh Ride. WiTh spiriT and energy They opened The concerT wiTh The NaTional Emblem March. OTher selecTions included TTThis Feeling in My HearT by Chuck Elledge, Fes- Tive ProclamaTion by Claude T. SmiTh, and Kelor Bela's LusTspiel. The STage Band also appeared in boTh ConcerT and VarsiTy Band Con- cerTs under The direoTion of Phil Holm. They performed a playful romp b pianichomposer Thelonoius Marl Well You Needn'T. The ConcerT Band had a visiT fror SanTa in Their ooncerT. Mr. Edwin Mel char aacJ puT on his red SanTa cal and presenTed The band wiTh The gifTs, envelopes of music for Them Tc sighT read during The performance. Th year's music dealT wiTh ohromaTi scales. The, band also performed 36 leoTions such as La FiesTa Mexicana, Nobels of The MysTic Shrine, and TR fle RegimenT. BoTh bands gave fre concerTs This year To aTTraCT a large crowd, and iT worked. WiTh music in The air, many Edina sTL denTs broughT The holiday season T life. The concerTs were a success c well as a celebraTion.

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i Edina stars shine in two F or the first time in seven years, two plays were performed. They were Blue Horses and Agatha Christie's my- stery, Witness for the Prosecution, both directed by Cynthia Elmquist diaco The first, Blue Horses, was performed on Thursday, January 30 as an entry in the West Suburban Drama Contest, hosted this year by Edina High School. Edina has not participated for the past seven years because, according to Mrs. Elmquist, iiThere has not been anyone willing to direct such a play. Blue Horses was a one act play staring Rachel Gartner uzp, Liz Chosen r12; Peter Shanedllng C1 1;, and John 22 WINTER PLAYS Nord r103. They play four 10 year old children who make wishes and imagine that these wishes come true. When asked how she felt about the play, Ra- chel Gartner said, It brought me back to being ten. I would go into rehersals feeling down but then to go and pre- tend I was ten and my biggest prob- lem would be not being able to jump rope, my wish. It was really a neat ex- perience. Edina placed fourth out of seven in the competition. Witness for the Prosecution was quite a different production than Biue Horses. It is an Agatha Christie murder mystery set in a courtroom. The plot winter plays centers around a man named Leonar Vole who has been accused of mu dering an elderly woman, Miss Emi French. This drama stared Rollin Ran som U 1,, Monica Rodrigues H1 Laura South 1,: and Spencer Lum gard U 1;. It was a lot of hard worl but we were excited and had a grec time doing it, commented Rollie Rar som after they finished the play. Mrs. Elmquist remarked that W chose both of the plays because c the contrast between them, Blu Horses is a simple fantasy and Witne. for the Prosecution is a serious Englis mystery. The cast of Blue Horses share their wishes WI each other in hopes of them coming true.