St Clare High School - Je Me Souviens Yearbook (Woonsocket, RI)

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JE ME SOUVIENSH A Student s Symphony The members of Saint Clare s Orchestra submit to the approval of their schoolmates the structural design of a Symphony dedicated to the departing graduates Its themes though not unfamiliar ones may recall a path treaded hand in hand The opening movement of the score IS heralded by a strident and prolonged trill from the oboe winding up in a daring crash from the percussion section We are transferred as though by magic to a co7y bedroom at a time considered as early dawn. when a persistent ring from a dutiful alarm clock summons to Work. In blissfully soothing strains the tender reed instruments then enter upon the main theme and convey the assurance th1t the day s first and foremost trial has already ascended to Heaven on vs ings of prayer. A short episode given out by the flutes and punctuated by the full orchestra leads to the second theme, swifter than the first. Our heroine finds her way 692-

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SO I to the bathroom vsrth yet unsteady step whereupon a ubrant stroke of the cy mbal stuns qulte as much as a dash of rcy water on a sleepy face Soon a chromatlc descent from a jubllant F to a graxe C suggests a glldlng down to the breakfast room There the slpplng of coffee and the munchlng of a doughnut are expressed by a lyrlc melody sustamed by xroltn and clarrnet 'I hls Andante develops mto 1 theme of a rather agntated nature when a trumpet toots a call slmllar to that of a school bus Naturally an accelerando out through the front door follows Fxnally Estudnantlna rs on her was to school the mellow voice of a B flat saxophone approxes of the fact A carefree frollcklng 9cher7o characterlles the opemng bars of the thxrd movement After a pl77lC3IO passage for the strlngs arco strokes brlng forth a melody whlch relapses unto an Andantlno for the noon hour wtth nts sletpplng and laughter soon gnes vsay to more recollectlon and more reasonlng Further a pleasmg modulatlon xntroduces a straln of a 111 eller and more rhythmlc tempo Behold l rvmg lmes as parellel as those of the staff are moung ln strlct cadence gym exerclses are rn full svx ay A trumpet call blarlng and declslve mterrupts the act1v1t1es and dlsperses the group whlle fragments of an early theme 1f1CllC3TL that soon home l1fe IS to be resumed Fmally the composltron offers an Allegro as preamble to the closmg straln whereln 1 syncopated effect predomxnates Could ll be that Estudrantma IS lendmg a wlllmg ear to swung numbers our the radro as 1 drversron from CICCIOP But an unlooleed for transltron raptdly swells mto a XIIVBCC wrth an Allargando end1ng to prevent too abrupt a stop Mental alertness IS called for as a lrterary asslgnment must be Hnlshed before checkmg up on the day s w ork rn the presence of the all understandmg lVl1ster I Asst ,J -'lf0l+ 4 l 4 1 - e ell: Vll: UVl5NS r' v1 1 r 1 r' 1 - v ' v , 1 . x . . 7 X . , . 1 1 I ' 1 l 1 L1 1 r L I Q ' 1 1 ' 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 1 e . .. Q. - 4 V t . e e . r 1 v ' 1 . . . . I 11 . j .r . . . 1 , . v V 1 h . . . N . ,Y,., x . l I ' 1 1 1 v ' 1- ' 1 I 1 . V 1 1 1 1 1 . . ,, . ,, x Y, X . . y . . . 1 . 7 V . , . . . . . . , 1 1 1 1 V E ' 1 r e . D. ..1. 42 ff