Highland Park High School - Little Giant Yearbook (Highland Park, IL)

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 In a toy shop improvisation for their Beginning Act- ing doss, Brandon Drake (left) playing a small child, seizes the arm of Gorrick Axelrod, cast os a wooden soldier. Junior Orn Backstrom (below) concert master of the HPHS orchestra, demonstrates violin technique to a Humanities class on the instruments of the orchestra. Looming to use their dtophrogms to belt out the high notes, senior Scott Zuker and freshmon John Spence (bottom) rehearse o voriety of Christ- mas anthems. Members of choroliers (bottom left) rehearse Graceful Nymphs, one of the seven num- bers they performed for the Winter Concert.

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FINE ARTS Jazz-Rock, dance pace course changes This year the Fine Arts Department gave people who liked to fool around with melodies a course to do it in. Jazz Rock Improvisation. Students worked out solos to tunes like Girl From Impenema and Bye Bye Blackbird, covered jazz history and read what name musicians had to say on the art of improv. February clinics with jazz sax- man Bill Ussleton highlighted the year. Participants in beginning and the new advanced dance course explored space, time and energy in their 1202 studio. Class members planned to present an avant garde concert that teacher Miss Johnson described as movement for the sake of movement. In '73, dramatics continued to grow in popularity. Drama offerings included beginning and advanced acting and tech- nical theater. Numerous directing class plays, ranging from Sartre's bitter No Exit to the lighthearted I Remember Mama, provided dozens of good roles for eager newcomers so often relegated to first man in the crowd in school prod- uction. Dabblers as well as serious sculptors and pointers enjoyed diverse art offerings. Structural arts students worked with three dimensional form in wood, plastic, paper mache and wire. Studio Arts covered problems in water colors and oils while those enrolled in Advanced Drawing sketched figures and landscapes. Another proposed course. Exploration of Fine Arts, will focus on the principles and underlying philosophy common to all the arts. According to Fine Arts chairman Ruth Esserman, The contemporary trend has been toward lessening the boundaries in art forms. Leaving no doubt about what the wontt, Mrt. Greener (right) pullt o performance out of tome beginning acting ttudentt. Proving hit obiktiet with the trumpet at well at with the toccer boll, jazz rock mon, tenior Don Brugioni (obove) jomt a mean cho- rut of Hello Dolly for hit dottmotet. 18

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Working on o five minuto improvisation, senior Max- ine Way ant, soph Ellon Georgovich ond junior Kothy Freberg (bolow) oxponmont with spatial rotation- ships. Working hard to moot tho doodtino, junior Hick Zimmerman (right) adds tho finishing touches to his self-portrait, his nine weeks project for studio arts. Wary of any folse moves, senior Connie Stromberg (for right) prepares to drive a chisel into a sculpture for Structural Arts. Having memorized its choral patterns, junior Florie Hothenberg (right) gives Bye Bye Blackbird another try on her saxophone. Junk is transformed into beautiful art as soph Perry Becker (mid-right) welds car bumpers into a gleaming bird form. Inter- rupting her pointing chores, senior Kevin Higdon (for right) seeks Joan Chonnick's odvice about the sturdi- ness of the door hinges for on Apple Tree prop. 20