High Point University - Zenith Yearbook (High Point, NC)

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Prelude Q jL VERY great music master writes, at some time, — one composition which rises above all his other works, recognized as a masterpiece because it contains the very soul of the master himself, the essence of his being. It may begin with the stately measures arising from some deep trend of thought followed by the sol- emn melody of latent ambition. From time to time there may creep in the poignant sobbing notes of some divine melancholy, preceding more joyous strains and finally ending in the crashing chords of triumph. We have realized that we, too, are composers writing that greatest masterpiece of all — Life. In it, too, there are different elements — the ambitious, the melancholy, the joyous, the self-sacrificing, the triumphant. Those who have gone before us have left us the lovely melodies of their lives to enrich ours, and in those melodies have left a challenge to us to weave into the symphony of our lives all that is beautiful and gracious and uplifting. We take up the challenge and promise — a promise stronger because it is silent— that we will make the music of our lives so beautiful that it will be worthy to ring in the Kingdom that shall know no end.

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AN DEL, Qeorge Frederick (1685- 1759 , was bom at Halle, it has been said that Handel was Ger man born, Italian influenced, and Eng- lish stabilized. Handel was an orator and a painter. An orator is one who orates, one who expresses thoughts in an eloquent manner. An orator may use words of others and put them in another farm. It is necessary for an orator to assimilate, and Handel had an uncanny way of assimilating what he heard. He reacted to every artistic thing he heard, Handel ' s music can be compared to a fine landscape painting- His beauty is in the large, not detailed, and he painted with large brush strokes. His melodies ncre largely within the tetracfiord and he fined firm melodic line . He was auto- cratic, domineering, and high tempered- He loved praise, and he desired to be the fittest in his line. He was extremely gen- erotts and kind.