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Show Music Exemplars of cooperations, Weber's three virtuosos periodically pool their talents and resources to produce musical feasts which delight the most critical of audiences. A gifted composer, Roland Parry, directs the mixed choruses and produces the oratorio. Musettes manager J. Clair Anderson underlines campus life with his melodious organ music. Versatile instrumentalist is bandmaster and orchestra conductor Clair Johnson. Assembly committees find these three ever willing to help. One of the most colorful of Weber's traditional organizations, Musettes this year more than ever achieved its standard of pretty girls with outstanding voices. Small wonder that they were invited to sing so often for civic clubs. MUSETTES Front Row: Lorraine Aldous, Marjorie Andelin, Clair Anderson, Adviser; Marjorie Christiansen, Kathryne Hone. Back Row: Helen Thorpe, Wealthy Purrington, Frances Mary Stratford, Marvel Murphy, Margaret Simpson, Charlene Cross, Jean Chamberlin. Clair Johnson Roland Parry, Head of Department J. Clair Anderson Front Row: Gwen Orme, Iola Belnap, Isabella Dalton, Marian Duvall, Saxon Roush, Marjorie Christiansen, Janester Martindell, Jean Chamberlin, Beverly Jurgens, Kathryne Hone, Almina Carter. Second Row: Margaret Simpson, Phyllis Hancock, Lorraine Dame, Betty West, Jean Kapple, Audrey Jensen, Lou Jean Cragun, Cleone Campbell, Lenore McGregor. Third Row: Mildred McPhie, Lorna Hull, Alta Cottrell, Pat Sheehan, Verla Hale, Wealthy Purrington, Elaine Horne, Marge Andelin. Fourth Row: Jack Janke, Dewey Hudson, Oren Jacobs, Van Nance, Louis Slagowski, Marvin Rabe, John Piers. Fifth Row: Jay Olson, Bob Butler, Rogar Critchlow, Warren Corry, Boyd Farr, Dee Linford. Fall Concert "Present the best in music to the public." With this as a goal, the Weber College music department presented, in November, its first concert of the year. This "Evening of Music," combining the entire music department, vocal and instrumental, varied a program of the master works of such great composers as Haydn and Puccini with popular classical arrangements of Viennese waltzes and Liszt's Liebestraum. Highlight of the evening was the violin concerto solo by Emmett Wiggins, concert master. Accompanying the orchestra and glee club, an interpretive dance added its charm to the understanding of the Emperor's Waltz by Strauss. As a fitting climax to the concert, in the spirit of the defenders of America, the 150 participants presented the stirring song by Beecher, "The Ramparts We Watch." Concert directors were Roland Parry, vocal; J. Clair Anderson, Musettes and piano; and Clair Johnson, orchestra. |