Lyndhurst High School - Ursa Major Yearbook (Lyndhurst, NJ)

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F' ember 1940, to compose this Symphony Each perplexed -Y Freshman selected from the three courses commer cial, general or college preparatory, the material -1-gli!! which he needed for the score W We took our places, and at once began to compose the first movement We chose as our conductors, Betty Pater, Anne Nay, Pdward Breininger, and Marvin Feldman Every note meant that we were a step nearer our goal Although at times we seemed a bit bewildered by the vastness of oul composition, we created two dances, the first, a Hal 1owe'en Dance and the second, 'The May Frol1c, which concluded the OVERTURE E n, 5 lllllllllllll As amateur musicians, we started in Sept- . n!! . P . 1

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Y Upon the completion of the Overture, we com- menced work on the Second Movement. Joan Landells, Myra R Epstein, Betty Pater,and Harold Dickert directed us dur- - ing this movement. By this time we had become better acquainted I 1 3 I 1 X Q X 'K C .Ie I W with our fellow musicians and wrote fewer sour notes. Some of our nov el ideas seemed to produce more effective impressions upon our music. It was in this movement that we created the lively dance motif uThe Witches' Rendezvous