Miami Killian Senior High School - Catamount Yearbook (Miami, FL)

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MUSIC The Band and Chorus Made Joyful Noises to the World '--Ev Ready! And . . . Miss Ann Duncan and her family of choruses sponsored several presenta- tions throughout the year premiering with Sounds of '68 in which individual students worked on musical skits to correlate with the musical score forthe show. ,ff f- Teaming with the drama department, the chorus 1 assisted in presenting the first musical at Killian, The King and I . During Christmas, the chorus If W 1' presented a Winter Concert which included a night of carrolling at the Dadeland Mall. I Ensembles as The Killian Singers developed f , , ,fi through the student oriented workshops where ff!! X A students worked independently to develop special ! K Y sounds. I Right next door, working with the instrumental A, aspect ot music, Mr. Dane Wills taught music , . theory and the Concert Wind Ensemble, Reserve gg , if Band, and Concert Band. The Marching Band was one of five bands in the county to march in the Orange Bowl halt-time show and one often bands chosen to perform for I , I . the New Years King Orange Jamboree. IT WASN'T A TIJUANA BRASS, BUT MIKE POLSTEIN CREATING NIOODS. A GAZING AT STUDENTS' CHIN-DROPPING PERFORMANCES, MISS ANN DUNCAN EVALUATED SUE SNEDIGAR AND ALUMNI LINDA WILKES. 30

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., 'Q uh? ,gp .la ,WWE wwf' jp , , ,1'f f f,H'4r,b , , g- j M' DRAMA STUDENTS MASTERED THE ART OF APPLYING STAGE MAKE-UPS AS WELL AS ACTING SKILLS. DAWN FREIWALD AND ROCHELLE ZALIS SHOWED MR. FREEMAN STAGE AREAS. Budding Dramatists Emerge To Conquer Stage Stardom With Thespis guiding the budding dramatists into the history of acting and Ethel Barrymore's style, a basis of acting technique, the drama classes forded the barrier of the stage and audi- ence. Technicians emerged from the room with the new found knowledge of lights, props, sets and set designs. The designing of costumes, an art itself, with the added highlight of applying make-up was taught to glamorize the actors and to establish less of an imagination stretcher. Actual acting experience was the most neces- sary part of the course and the taking of parts in plays was the best way to get it. Filling po- sitions of Hawk's Well , Riders to the Sea , and Stage Door in order to be evaluated by classmates was the class technique for scru- tinizing and discussing mistakes and skills. The teaching of method acting, pantomime, special techniques of acting were also intro- duced in Drama l classes and developed and advanced in second and third year classes. 29

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KF 4 r A5 A 1 f Winn: fabovej Pepper, Pepper, come blow your horn shouted Mr. Dane Wills to the band's lead trumpet player Pepper Brooke. Cbelowj Even great musicians sometime need expIanations, hemmed band members when Mr. Wills, the band director, emoted on the rarely hit sour notes. 31