St Albans School - Albanian Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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'3 WE ,WGQSQSQ MC dl G D Dy H DI! DC ll PhIpR L T Wll Wh! Y M T Lf B Dy B hly B y S C ho1r HE THIRTY boys who compose the nucleus of the Cathedral Cholr have the most dlfhcult schedule 1n St Albans They practxce sxx days a week a total of about twenty hours Th1s m cludes an hour on Monday through Frxday m the mornmg and an evensong servxce 1n the after noon on Tuesday through Thursday On Frxday mght they assemble m the Cathedral for a two and a half hour rehearsal w1th the men of the Choxr Every Sunday they spend thelr day at the Cathedral smgmg at both the eleven o clock and four o clock servxces Under the marvelous dlrec non of Paul Callaway the choxr produces musxcal sounds whlch are surpassed by few choxrs m the world In addltlon to th1s strenuous outslde schedule the choxrboys must carry a demandmg scholastlc schedule and are frequently 1n fact contmually among the best athletes and scholars m thexr respectxve classes Thxs year the Choxr has parttclpated m many xmportant servxces Among them were the televlsed servtces on Chr1stmas Eve and Easter Sunday and the servnce for mstallatlon of the Pre sxdxng B1shop of the Eplscopal Church Arthur Inchtenberger On May 1 the Choir partlcl pated 1n the consecratxon of the Blshop Coadjutor of Washxngton the Rt Rev Wllllam Crelghton Thls year the Cholr made a record of hturglcal mustc ln connectlon wxth the Schools Fxftxeth Anmversary The record has been acclalmed by Washxngton cr1t1cs as an excellent example of choral sound The record typxhes the beautxful muslc produced at the Washlngton Cathedral The chotrboys of St Albans should be greatly thanked for thexr hne contrlbutxon to the School 80 ACTIVITIES 1959 , JE - , fa t Y V . X , 1 V ! x dv ug s ,X Q 5 Al 3 6 Y e A '- A Q 'I L 4 . if X .. - y s t Y l .wr Q 5 5 1 Frou! row. I. to r.: c an ess. Denney, . irksen. Tomlinson, Clement, Davidow, F. a , ack Second row, I. lo r.: a on, . orne , ii osenbaum, R. oftus. Dale, . i iams, L. le, Oung. 1. ason. . o tus ack row, I. to r.: Jackson, A. a . Kern, Peter Rosenbaum. J. Arterton, Forbes, lac , Kitzinger, . Da Absent: . Cornell. A. Miller, Rubino w a J g u y n - . . , , . . a - ' 7 7 T , 1 9 ' ' - , . . .

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bthM pE MC SHn l He Rn Glee Club 1VE TENORSI Where IS everybody? Football PFHCIICCQ Wlth rehearsals under way ln September the combmecl Glee Clubs of StA and NCS prepared and sang Chapman s All Creatures of Our God and Klng for a serv1ce 1n the Cathedral Work also started early on the preparation of Haydn s The Creatzon which was presented later 1n the spring November drew to a close and the Glee Club was hard at It on a completely new and fresh Advent play There Standetln One Among You written by Rev ohn Suter ex Dean of the Cathedral w1th muslc by Rlchard Drrksen Returning from Christmas vacatlon rehearsals on the Sprmg Concert began ThlS years musrc presented on February 8th lncluded Handel s Psalm 112 and Franz Joseph Haydn s The Great Organ Mass portlons of whlch have been mcluded on th1s years recordmg The Glee Clubs were asslsted by four solo1sts all of who'n were graduates of erther StA or NCS and members of the Natxonal Symphony Orchestra As the first pleces of the Dlrksens new operetta The Rose and the Rmg came off the press concentrated efforts to learn dralogue and actlon as well as muslc were made A Hnlshed per formance was presented on May 8 9 wlth great success ust three weeks before the openmg of th operetta, the Glee Clubs w1th the Washlngton and Cathedral Choral Soc1et1es the National Symphony Orchestra and many well known solo1sts presented Haydn s C reatzon The Glee Clubs also partlclpated 1n che jornt schools Ascensron Day SCFVICC on May 7 The years work provided much warm fun and a lot of valuable experlence galned through the expert leadershlp of Mr Rlchard Dlrksen TI-IE ALBANIAN 79 F' l l Fronl row, I. to r.: Tren a , oser, Brooks, Beukenkam , . Wilson, c onnell, . a , Damon, Richman, Whee er, G. ar, Hawes, Bennett, J. Kline, he s, Kear Back row, I. to r.: Booth, McMillan, Terry, Robertson, D. While, Symington, Ruff, Dirksen, Hiss, Lyman, Monks, Sherwin, Meehan. Reese. Bass, Deloria, Nordlinger , - - n 9 9 te ' sa - - . , . . 5 9 a ' J 1 ' , . . . . . . , , . - - 9 ze 77 9 . . . . , . , . 9 ' a . . , . 9 J 9 s 9 - ' J . 8 . . 9 1 9 ' , . . .

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C athedral Servers 8 Qhlmes Rmgers gh R dl THE ALBANIAN 81 xi x J C7 0 i 1 I V I Fran! row, l. to r.: Pai e. Ahrens, Hawes Back row, I. In r.: Bennett, Scholz, Carr, Syminglon N n C Left I0 ' I: .G N 'g D'k