Temple Missionary Training School - Global Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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1946-47 Year ln Music crt TMTS Music hath ckafrms to soothe ct sewage breast, To soften rocks, or bend at knotted oak. -CONGREVE. . . . . . . And if Mr. Congreve's observations are correct, the past year at the TMTS surely has produced many a soothed breast, warped Woodwork, and perhaps even a softening of the Temple foundations, for music exists in abundance! Of course, there are those individuals who will be quick to dispute the charms of some of the music-especially the ardent practicings of the first-year vocal students and the piano scale-Work! 4 The close association of the TMTS with the Fort Wayne Gospel Temple has produced an unusual number of golden musi- cal opportunities for the student body during the ,46-'47 school year. Outstanding was the third annual presentation of Handel's Messiah in the Temple auditorium on December 22, 1946, by the Temple Chorus Choir. All music students gain their choral experience in the Temple Choir. -The Temple Radio and Concert Band, to which student in- strumeritalists are welcomed, climaxed its year of Weekly broad- cast and concert activities with its third annual Spring Band Concert in the Temple auditorium on May 11, 1947. One of the most valuable musical training groups available to the Women students is the Temple Young Ladies' Chorus which specializes in intricate memorized arrangements. This busy and versatile group appeared twelve times during the past school year on the Back Home Hour broadcast and sang in as many or more Sunday night services. Girls' trio work, an encouraged and cultivated musical ac- tivity at TMTS, was Well represented during the year. The last highlight of the musical year Was the joint student recital on May 17, 1947, of the two music course graduates, Miss Hilda Hager, and Miss Miriam Klopfenstein. Miss Hager, a mai-wr in voice, and Miss Klopfenstein, a major in piano, pre- -sinned a program of selections from oratorio, the classics, and ,f ff el songs in the Temple auditorium. These young ladies go prepared to cope with all the musical problems of the A . ,fre churcl- :'-rj with extensive instrumental and broadcast- 1 - zperier Mag' the Lord richly bless and use them as they . een ' .-:tug to pay the price of preparation.