Murray High School - Crest Yearbook (Murray, UT)

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Ubin' Munir Bepartmeni The following conversation took place between one of our leadlng business men of Murray and his friend from a neighboring city. You know, Mr. A. was saying, the Music Department in our High School has been taking up practically new work this year and our supervisor, Mr. W. F. Robinson, is very well pleased with the results. , H Indeed, remarked Mr. B., not paying muCl1 a'Cf6H'f1011, what are they doing? ' , Well, the music Qaj class, that is, the boys and girls coming to our High School for the first time, are doing splendid work in ear training and sight reading. The Eighth graders are doing .nearly the same work and are getting along just as well, although it is much more interesting to them as they are farther advanced. Ch, yes, and they are doing very nicely in the study of orchestral instruments. Is that so? said his friend rather quietly. Yes, continued Mr. A., but the best work is coming from the three higher classes. Aside from song analysis and interpretation, in the Ninth grade, history, appreciation and elementary harmony in the Tenth grade and a mixture of this work in a class between the two already mentioned, some students are taking up melody writing for the first time. , Yes, yes, go on, urged 'Mr. B., becoming interested, have they succeeded P Well I should say they have. Every member has handed in some little composition worthy of mention. Mr. Robinson has offered first and second prizes for the best two and when he is spoken to with re- gards to this subject, he smiles and says, just as proudly as can be, 'Yes, I am surprised to get such good work from students with so little experience. I'm really proud of them all., Well, I never,', ejaculated Mr. B. I have never seen that sort of work in a high school before. No ?i Then listen-two songs, one, I Am a Sammy, composed by Lyle Bishop and Laura Miller, and another, A Mother's Sacrifice by Nellie Sandahl and Ethel Naylor, have been sung with favorable resultsbefore the student body and later at the teachers' banquet. Now, how does that sound? I agree with Mr. Robinson, that certainly is fine work. Now tell me something about the chorus, they are doing just as well I suppose. They certainly are, haven't you heard of their success with the cantata, The Resurrection and the Life? It has been given a num- ber of times and at each rendition the orchestra assisted the pianist, which is also new work for this organization. You ought to have heard their soloists, Lyle Bishop and Gordon VVhipple, they are cer- tainly fine. All that, and I hadn't heard, that's queer,' 'said Mr. B.-his face growing sober. I'm sorry that I was not able to hear'it and now, my friend, will you please tell your music instructor for me falthough he may have no thought of stopping this workj to continue not only with the melody writing which is the foundation every musician must lay, but with the orchestra and chorus work, for music is the greatest and most beautiful out all arts. Congratulate Mr. Robinson for me. I must leave you now, I have been so interested I did not realize it was so late. ' , And with a shake of the hand and a reassuring nod, they parted.

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Scene from The Fortune Hunter

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CHORUS