The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1940-05-16
LOCAL SCHOOLS
WILL PRESENT
MUSIC FESTIVAL
Program Is Being Presented In
Connection With National
Music Week; Admission
Tickets Are Free
EVANSVILLE FESTIVAL
WAS GIVEN ON TUESDAY

The schools of Oakland are
presenting a Spring Music Fes-
tival in the Oakland High school
auditorium on Friday evening,
May II, beginning at 8 o'clock.
The participating schools are
the Oakland Elementary school,
the st. Peters Parochial school
and the Oakland High school.
This festival is being held in
connection with National Music
Week.
Admission is by free compliment
tary ticket which may be obtained MOI
only from the teachers but from par
ticipating students in any of the three
schools.
A similar festival was presented in
Grantsville on Tuesday. This is the
second annual affair of the kind, the
first being held here last year. Due
to the difficulty Of transporting the
pupils to Oakland and also to the large
audiences attending, it was necessary
to hold two festivals this year. The
program will be as follows:
Orchestra selection, Corona Over
ture; community singing, led by boys
chorus; Oakland Elementary rhythm
band piano duet, Flying Doves, Mary
Jane Simone and Betty Ann Miller;
Oakland Elementary school glee club,
Bells of the Morn; Farewell; Oakland
Elementary Melody flute band; piano
solo, Elizabeth Jordan; st. Peters
school glee club, Beautiful Ohio; piano
solo, Mary Jane Fazzalari.
Selections by the Oakland High
sophomore chorus-Vagabond Song;
How Lovely Are the Messengers; Lul
laby; By the freight; At the Cross
roads; Mighty LAX A Rose; Light
Triumphant; Pilgrims Chorus.
Cello solo, Evening Star, from Tam
hauser, by Mary Claudis Fraley; Sc
lectiOns from the 0. H. S. Freshman
Chous-O Month of May; o Sole Mic,
Adios TIE Digo; De OF Ark's a-Movin';
Moonlight and Starlight; All Through
the Night; All, Lovely Meadows.
Dance, the minuet, Oakland Elemen-
tary school; selections by the High
school glee club-Cornfield Melodies;
Waitin' for the Shadows; Sympathy;
Down the Long Road; Send Out Thy
Light; orchestra selection, March of
the Priests.
Grantsvillc Festival
A music festival in which approx
matcly 200 students participated, was
held Tuesday at Grantsville, which m
Guided pupils of elementary and high
schools Of Accident, Grantsville and
Friendsville.
GrantsVille's part in the program
included selections by the elementary
school, glee club, songs by sixth and
seventh grades, numbers by chorus
groups from both high and elemen-
taIy operettas and the high schooi
chorus groups.
Irish, Scotch, patriotic, Negro and
cowboy music and compositions by
Stephen Foster were rendered by the
freshmen from all three schools par
uclpating. Mrs. Evangeline Glenn di-
rected the high school music, while
Misses Leona Clark, Margaret Rem
Strom, Mrs. Benny Epstein and Edwin
Elias were in charge of Grantsville
elementary presentations. Misses Mar
ina Huotari, Velora Swauger and Mrs.
Margaret Richardson were in charge
OF the Friendsville elementary school,
music.
An art exhibit, under the supervs.
Ion Of Miss Jean Young, high school
art instructor of this section, was also
on display at the school. 1t will con-
thue for the remainder of the week.