Midland University - Warrior Yearbook (Fremont, NE)

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l THE 933 WARRIOR A CAPPELLA CHOIR President...... Vice-President Treasurer.... Girls’ Secretary Boys' Secretary Librarian.... Director........ ......Aksel Larsen Newell Mendenhall . .Dorothea Smith ... Clara Hensel Newell Mendenhall ......Trulie Elder Prof. Oscar Lyders Fifty collegiate singers left April 24 for a two week tour of Kansas. Missouri. Oklahoma and Nebraska to give 14 concerts, averaging at least one a day. thus upholding the A Cappclla Choir's traditional name The Trouping Troubadors.” The trip scheduled this year was considerably shorter than in previous years but the total mileage was practically the same. The choir headlined in Salina. Kansas, where the singers appeared in Memorial hall before a large crowd. They also received a fine reception in Carthage. Missouri, where they headlined the music week program. The annual Christmas candlelight service was a mid-year feature spon- sored by the choir. The concert was arranged through the cooperation of the entire music department and was backed by the officers of the A Cappella group and the union of Fremont pastors. Their presentation of Handel’s Messiah was highly complimented by all who attended the service. The choir has appeared several times on college programs, such as the championship chapel, plays and radio programs. The music given by the A Cappella choir at the home presentation of “The Rock was especially effective. Prof. Oscar Lyders. head of the School of Fine Arts, cannot be praised too highly in building up an organization with a national renown second only to that of the St. Olaf choir. ❖ ❖ ❖ Back tow: Bell. A. Byar . D. Elder. Mill«f. Elmore. Gulteen. Limbird. Sol.tr. Speaker. Krurgtr. I.utzelmaa. Zaloudek. Elliion. Bream. Htnryion Third row: Btnntr. Scrvint. Lutz». Baird. A. Mendenhall. Larsen. N. Mendenhall. R. Bum. Parion». Strickland. Koory. Ellsworth. L. Johaton. Harder. Smmh. Haa»t Second row; Harvey, Watium. Rieper. Weitkamp. Schenck. Smith. Rowe. T. Elder. ProL Lyders. R. Martin. Saveli. Kelly. M. John ton. Stone. Willert. Turner. Chapman. Fertit Front row: Elliot. Liver». M. Bum. Fuhrmeitter. Hemel. Reuter. Polentke. Jotdahl. Ashman. C. Byart. M. Martin. Sthuldt. A. Bum, Robert». Culton. Lewis. Murphy Eighty

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THE 1933 H WARRIOR a Walter R. Olsen Intlrudor in Bund At Midland tin« 19)0 Mrs. Sara Hawkinson D.E. Intlrudor in Exprettion At Midland 1921-28 and tin« 19)1 ANNA KREINHEDER Intlrudor in Ad A« Midland in« 19)2 staging of plays through working on the production and property staff of major plays. Students may enroll in Midland’s School of Fine Arts with regular, special or junior standing. For 1931- 1932 the total enrollment in the department was 214. Courses included in the depart- ment are voice, harmony, piano, pipe organ, band instruments, expression, band management, dramatic art. play production, abridgment and arrangement of selections, public school music methods, history and appreciation, elementary composition and arranging, supervised teaching, conducting, violin and other stringed instruments. Some of the most outstanding organizations on the campus are directly connected with the School of Fine Arts. The A Cappella Choir, directed by Prof. Oscar Lyders. has won national fame. Members of this group put in many hours of faithful practice in order to perfect their singing. The Midland-Fremont Symphony Orchestra, directed by Prof. Lester Somers, appears in a number of concerts each year as well as furnishing music at all major plays. Under the direction of Mrs. Sara A. Hawkinson. the Midland Players carry out an extensive yearly program of fine dramatic produc- tions. The Midland Military Band, led by Walter Olsen, plays for pep rallies and at athletic contests. Midland is justly proud of its School of Fine Arts. S r nty-niar

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THE 1933 WARRIOR v ORATORIO CHORUS With a view toward raising a part of the money needed for the 1933 ACappclla choir trip, Midland organized a Messiah chorus, since renamed the Midland Oratorio Chorus, containing from 18 to 20 voices. Prof. Oscar Lyders. director of the group, scheduled about 40 concerts during the fall and winter. Besides singing the choir songs, the chorus introduced The Mes- siah” and The Creation with great success. Two week-end trips were taken during November. The group sang at Stamford. Grand Island and Hastings on the first and at Norfolk on the second. Rev. L. H. StcinhofT. field manager for the tours, estimated that the chorus had traveled 1.700 miles by December 1. singing 27 concerts before 7.800 persons. Writ- ten declarations expressing approval of the harmony and music of the choir came in through the mails each day following the fall tours. The preceding figures included a 500 mile trip taken through Nebraska. Iowa and Kansas during Thanksgiving vacation. The chorus, with the A Cappella choir, presented a candle light service before Christmas. The Oratorio group sang most of The Messiah” division of the program. In follow- ing trips, the chorus made the total of appearances 33. with a total audience of almost 10.000. The singers took a vacation from December 4 to the first of February, and then sang a concert before a West Point church and ended their trips with a tour through Benson and Council Bluffs, presenting four concerts before Easter. Back row: Sokcr. Ellison. Baird. Johnson. Raitt. Mendenhall. Speaker Second tow: Bell. R. Marrin. Rowe. Smith. Jordahl. Reuter. Schafersman. Saveli. Zatoudek Front row: Benner. Schuldt. Strickland. Prof. Lyders. Krueger. M. Martin. Roberts Eighty-one