Hugh John Macdonald School - Searchlight Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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MU SIC AT HUGH JOHN MACDONALD By Phyllis Johnson Sonia Zyla 16 This year the music department at Hugh John Macdonald was active in school events all year. At the Remembrance Day Service the grade nine girls sang the beautiful hymn Turn Back 0 Man . In Npvember we started practicing for Christmas. A choir of fifty girls from Hugh John Macdonald sang, at the request of the City Hydro, on its regular broad¬ cast of School Carolers. The girls sang eight Christmas carols and fully succeeded in upholding the high standard of our school. The girls repeated the carols at the Christmas Concert. After Christmas we began to practice for the musical festival. Nine choirs and an orchestra were entered from this school. On Monday March 22nd, the Girls Glee Club Choir sang The Graceful Swaying Wattle and Jesu Joy of Man’s Desire receiving marks of 84 and 85. Congratulations are due to the Boys ’ Treble Choir who sang The East Indian- man and topped four other choirs with a mark of 85. They won the Effie Dafoe Memorial Trophy. Three grade seven choirs sang The Bonny Blue-eyed Sailor and a selection of each choir ' s own choice on March 23rd. From grade eight, ro ms six and one sang as a group and room right sang as another group. Rooms 11 and 22 did very well coming in second with rarks of 85 and 85. Later they sang Here Amid the Shady Woods over the C.E.W, Broadcasting Station. Rooms 12 and 13 sang Lonely Woods and Gathering Daffodils and came in third with marks of 85 and 85 in a class of ten local choirs. Our school orchestra played Prayer and Minuet by Mozart and The Ride at the ' festival. For graduation some girls and boys from rooms 12 and 13 sang Early One Morning , Gay is the Rose and Crimond . In addition a number of pupils from our school attended the symphony concerts for children by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. All choirs were conducted by Miss H. Wiechman and the school orchestra was directed by Miss Howard. The accompanists were: Miss Gordon, Mrs. Harrison, Jeanne Shigeta and Donna Chase. BORE RS An oboe is an American tramp. Magna Charta said that Parliament. the king was not to Oder taxis without the cons ent of

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17 V ith Hugh John written on it V hile we hitch all our teachers to the shay. Through the fields of knowledge They will drag us up to college, On our Graduation Day.