Aggie 1937 - Yearbook

Girls Glee ClubTop Row : Dalager, Wollin, Larson, Evans, M. Hansom, Hamre, Ranstad, Car-lion.Second Row : Korstad, Torkelson, Durbahn, Jenkins, Ecklund, Landsverk Nesbit Dahl Lindamood.Bottom Row : Miss Nelson, accompanist ; Miss Henning director Krogstad, Lerud, Olson, Vanderveen, Madden, Conklin.The girls’ glee club has, just as the boys’ gleeclub and mixed chorus, become a permanent fixturein the architecture of this school’s yearlyprogram. With Miss Hennig as director and MissNelson as accompanist, this organization thrivesvery nicely on about twenty five voices and practicesonce each week.Glee club may seem to be but a chronologicalseries of uninteresting events : first the tryouts,then the throw-outs, then practices once eachweek until the end of the year, varied by nothingexcept two practices the week of some public performance,and interrupted only by Winter Shows,and about four public appearances. But this trendof thought runs only in the minds of girls whohave never joined the glee club. We who are init think otherwise-of the variation it gives toour schedules, and, most of all, the educationalvalue.In the history of music we find that the firstmusical instrument was the human voice. fewhundred years after it was discovered that melodiesmight be produced by alternating the pitchesof the voice, it was found that by singing two orthree melodies at a time harmonies might be ef-fected. Now the sounds are arranged accordingto pitch, speed, rhythm, power and emphasisandit is of these five musical factors that MissHennig does her best to teach us in glee club.And so, besides being recreational, glee club isalso educational.The songs the glee club has sung this year areMorning, by Speaks; Composer and His Band,by Brahms; Canoe Song (Chiribiribin), by Pestalozza; and Brahm’s Lullaby. We have madeappearances on the Parents’ Day program. theThanksgiving Day program, in which we dressedas Puritan Priscillas and marching down the aisleof the auditorium, after all lights had beenswitched out, carrying lighted candles and singingThanksgiving songs. We also sang at theRed River Valley Winter Shows and duringCommencement week. In past years we havesung at the Sunnyrest Sanatorium near Crookston.All in all, glee club, with its informal happeningsand delightful experiences, will remain importanteven when it must recede into the miasmaof our memories.Page 36