Riverbend School for Girls - Vox Fluminis Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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L. Ormiston and Charlie Henderson by Pat Riley. The entire program went oi smooth- ly except for one distraction which oc- curred' 'when Syd Whi-te's. chair col- lapsed beneath him. Annie Lou car- ried on so well, however, that no one really noticed that it was not all part of th.e fun. The play was excellently directed by Ann Fox and Marie Baribeault, and Helen Grant looked 'after t-he make-up. MARY HOPE McINNIS 'lr THE LIBRARY Riverbend School has a rwell-stocked liibrary of Hction and reference books. One room has its walls lined with shelves of referergce b-ooks. another is stocked with fiction. Additions are made to the litbrary each year, one lbook at least being donated to it by each girl off the griaduatinig class. Great treasures of knowledge and wisdom from ancient and modern times are locked up in the-se volumes, but alas! though -the key to them' is avail- alble 'to all Riverbend girls., all too few take advantage of the privilege olf its use. The books are there for your benefit, girls. Use them! S. HALLDO-RSON 'k TH E HALLOWE'EN PARTY On Friday evening, October 28th, 1949, all the girlsff rom grades seven to eleven gathered in the .gym for a very enjoyakble Hallowe'en party. This eventful eveninig began at approxi- mately seven-thirty and soon every- one, inclusding the staff, was joining in the ifun. The main event of the eve- ning was the presentation of six skits, five of which were put on by the differ- ent classes. The sixth skit, however, completely stole th-e show, as the teac.h- ers gave us a picture of what a River- sbend ,girl does after school hours. After this was over a sinvg--song was held and refreshments were served. Soon afften ten o'cl-o-ck the girls slowly departed, :and they all agreed that it had been a very pleasant and memor- able evening. MARY HOPE MCINNIS. 'A' BACH IN 1950 Johann Sebas-tian Bach was born at Eisena-ch, Germany, in 1-6-85. He died in 175101 - two fhlu'nd're'd years ag-0-. In recoggnition of this fact, musicians the world o-ver -are this year giving s-pecial attention to t'he music of the man who is so frequently cal-led The Father of Mu-sic. Bac-h!'s wo-rks represen-t the culmina- 'tion of polyp-honic clomposition. They were .prfa-c'tica3lly unknown to the pub- lic for half a century after his death. But ever since,'Mendelssohn disc-overe-d them and rfpesented the Passion Music Acfcordinfg to St. Matthew, in 1829, they have steadily 'gvained popularity, un-til nolw, in 19510, Bach's music is gen- erally conce-ded to be am-on-gst t'he greatest the world has known. Be-et- hoven once wr-ote: His name should n-ot be Bach CGerm'an for 'brook l it should ibe ocean! Titanic, noble, lofty, profo-und - divinely human - suich is the 'great source and fo-un-tain-head from whom well--nifgh all that is best and most enduring in miodern music has been derived. Bach is greatly admired not only for the qu-ality of his comipositions, but for the quantity. He is said to have writ- ten -over one th-ousansd pieces, in every department except Op-era. This was achieved it must be rememfbered, in spite of a very busy life in which he was at various times chorister boy, violinist, organist, -teacher, orchestra director and capell-meis-ter, More and more, students are realiz- ing -that playing 'Bach not only stimu- lates the ear and the appreci'ation of fine music, but is of tremendous im- ,portance in developing their technique. Many writers claim that fr-om a tech- nical standp-oint Bach was fully a cent- CContinued on page 235 Page Twenty

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