Shawnigan Lake School - Yearbook (Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia Canada)

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Shawnigan Lake School .Magazine Several members of the orchestra were also heard in trio and quartette music for which the violins of Macdonald and Toshach and Rawlinson ' s Ante must be specially commended. Toshach played the clarinet most creditably, but, as yet, lacks experience. Anderson ' s solos were sung in a clear, cool and pleasing treble, and the words were quite audible. Songs by the Choir Trebles were charming in their simplicity, and the performers deserve praise for their clear enunciation and strict attention to the conductor. The harmony of the Part Songs performed by the Choir was well brought out and well blended. This concert has been the first arranged by Miss Lonsdale since she returned to take charge of school music. The school is no longer able to provide as many musicians, as formerly it did, and in view of this, Miss Lonsdale deserves our special thanks for so enjoyable and varied a programme. If old-timers are to be believed, it was no whit inferior to any of its predecessors. The Programme God Save the King March — Minuet, Musette from Anna Magdalena Suite Bach The Orchestra Ca ' the Ewes (Burns) Old Scottish Tune Come unto these yellow sands (Shakespeare) Purcell Choir Trebles Old English Dances : The Haymakers St. Mary Port Minuet Bumper Billy P. Rawlinson, E. Toshach, G. Anderson, F. Stainsby Linden Lea (Dorset Song) Vaughan Williams So sweete is shee (Ben Johnson) 17th Century Air G. Anderson 5-Part Songs : Sing we and chant it Morley The Turtle Dove (Old English) Vaughan William The Choir Trio — Sonata for two violins and piano Corelli P. Rawlinson, E. Toshach, H. Macdonald The Happy Day G. Shato Happiness Folk Song Up the Airy Mountain Rathoone Choir Trebles [ 14 ]

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine Groves ' is not unrepresented on the Rugby teams. Larsen, Deveson and Torland played on the 1st XV, and almost half of the 2nd XV are from Groves ' . Larsen won his School Colours. Congratulations! You have had a very successful year, and T wish you the best for the coming one. Live up to our House motto, ' Labor Ipse Voluptas, ' and remember it is not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game that counts. — D. B. S. « The School Concert » THE critic who would judge our school concert by the standard of experienced musicians will make a wrong judgment. And the reason for his error will lie somewhere within that sea of dif- ference which separates adults to whom music is a chosen occupa tion or hobby, an d boys to whom it is but one of many, many Avays? of spending time which they find already, all too short. Let him but come some afternoon to an orchestra practice or some evening to hear the choir, and he will feel a measure of that difference. It is all in the space of but one hour a week, in time wrested from such important counter-attractions as Defaulters, Football, Cricket or Detention, that musically minded boys or members of the staff learn from Miss Lonsdale some of the fundamentals of choral and orches- tral work, as well as the great art of finding a rapidly changing place on a sheet of music with sufficient agility to avoid a most scathing comment. Every year, and, alas, sometimes even every term, finds a gap in the ranks of our musical enthusiasts, and so the pro- cess of awakening music interest and appreciation can never, at school, be completed. But adults who once have felt the deep pleasure of music will agree on the importance of lighting the latent spark of musical ability which will, in later life, so richly repay the work of youth. The concert programme was chosen and prepared with skill. Each portion proved a most pleasing combination of quality and interest, and the programme moved onwards towards a climax which did not drop. It was executed with a keennness that was, perhaps, natural to youth, but also with a quality and an apprecia- tion of light and shade which is, by no means always found in schools. The orchestra, in spite of its small size, gave a good account of itself in Bach ' s Anna Magdalena Suite. Later, it provided a dis creetly quiet background for Stainsby ' s trumpet in Purcell ' s Trum- pet Tune. In the closing part of the programme, it accompanied the spirited group sing ing of Wi ' a Hundred Pipers and Jeru- salem. [ 13 ]

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine Trumpet Tune Purcell F. Stainsby The Spanish Main Tatton Wi ' a Hundred Pipers Old Scottish Song Jerusalem ( Blake ) Parry o « The Rag Concert » 111 Annual Laugh has come and gone! Not that we get no other laughs during the year — far from it — but only once do we engage in hectic efforts to keep the School and its friends in laughing mood for one whole evening. Yet, Ave must confess, it was no laughing matter that proved most worthy of our applause. The Juniors and Mrs. Manson must be congratulated for an excellent presentation of The Pied Piper. ' The lines were well and clearly spoken, and the costuming was appropriate and pleasing. The Tall, Tall Castle ' a mime produced by the Lower Fifth, was notable for skillful musical effects which most clearly depicted the said castle ' s enormous height, and for a very satisfactory ending, in which the timely deaths of all the other characters, including his beloved, left the hero with greatly enhanced material prospects. Lochinvar, by the Sixth, was intended to contain digs at the staff, but at least one eminent authority appreciated it as a most effective satire on the staff of a neighbouring girls ' school! For a few minute ' s before the appearance of the next item, Cap- tain Palin and Mr. Tgnatieff, for no apparent reason, shivered on the stage in nightshirts, and tried to keep warm by strangely inade- quate P.T., together with lamentations about the loss of their pyjamas. They were followed by Lake ' s House in Jumping Jupi- ter, a comment on the — alas ! — often reprehensible behaviour of the more notorious Roman deities. Ripley ' s House then proceeded to demonstrate that Roman deities were not the only people inter- ested in beer and skittles. That taste, according to Mice and Men, had spread as far even as a certain Ripington ' s House in a school, intriguingly left unnamed. Groves ' House ended the programme on a note perhaps unusually serious for a Rag Concert. Their play Mateo Falcone was a pic- ture of Corsica n family life. [ 15 ]