Midland University - Warrior Yearbook (Fremont, NE)

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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

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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 M WARRIOR MAY MUSIC FESTIVAL SUSPENSE and anxiety as to the May Music Queen’s identity was precipitated in the 1932 May Music Festival when Melba Ostby headed a procession across the campus and to her royal throne, constructed east of Clemmons hall. Her attendants were Pearl Jordahl, Charlotte Byars. Dorothea Smith. Ruth Lewis, Phyl- lis Bader and Lily Carstens. Anne Louise DeVol and Betty Ann Reck acted as flower girls while Sylvia Hawkinson and Phyllis Jean Reck were tr a inbearers. Billy Lyders carried the crown. The music festival lasted an entire week. It opened with a recital and concert by the Dana A Cappella Choir from Blair. The program for Mon- day was a Fine Arts recital. The Fremont Veterans of Foreign Wars appeared in a band concert Tuesday. T he schedule for the two following days included a community program and another Fine Arts recital. Mrs. Lily Rucgg-Button presented a group of Indian piano numbers Friday. This was followed by the corona- tion of the May Music Queen. The Midland - Fremont Symphony Orchestra presented a concert in Clemmons hall that evening. Another Fine Arts recital and band concerts entertained visitors Saturday. The week’s program was concluded Sunday. May 22. with an A Cappella Choir concert. This was preceded by a mothers’ tea in the afternoon and the festival chorus concert following. The entire presentation for the May Music Festival was arranged by Prof. Oscar Lyders. Musicians from a number of surrounding towns were invited to take part in the program along with Midlanders and Fre- monters. This was the first year that the music fest was held for an entire week. New phases were added to the schedule in 1932. The program grows in popularity and interest from year to year. ❖ • • Eighty-two