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

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9,-w we put aside the completed sheets of the first half f f7?' C of our Symphony, we anticipated a very promising movement I for we were now morning students Our maestros were rank Liscio, Betty Pater, Christine Gaccione, Edward Kaminski, and Lawrence Tbrok e of the enjoyable themes was the Christmas dance Happy Holiday During this third movement we had a most delightful innovation 'Th Junior Prom,' the most elaborate dance in our Symphony We planned at this time t have the Seniors as our guest musicians 1 as V 45 ' Xt . On -- e - a 0

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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

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After considering the themes of our last movement which completed our symphony, we musicians selected as our conductors, Lawrence Torok, Betty Pater, Frank Liscio, and El len Lockwood The composers set out in an earnest effort to accomplish a satisfactory final score During this Finale, we used as our first theme, a dance,WHarvest Hop We followed this later in our score with a more spirited one called, The Last Round up The Prom, which was gay and diverting, was another most pleasant theme The Juniors, who created this melody for us, added a great deal of beauty and color to this last movement We realized, as we completed this Symphony, that we had a new task the task of performing it In doing this, our greatest thought would necessarily be to bring out the truth of the music as we had conceived it, and to do it so well, that our audience would realize that this work had benefitted us, and that we in turn hoped to please our friends and hesrers -Sip-'11 I2