PROGRAM:
To the Color
Presentation of National Color
The Star Spangled Banner
Welcome
O Sing Your Songs
Roumanian Rhapsody
Egmont: Overture
Gershwin Medley
State Fair: Highlights
Glorious Everlasting from Psalm 57
Star, Moon, and Wind
Elegy
Walking on the Green Grass
Andalucia Suite
Flower Drum Song: Selections
Glory fo the Gridiron
Man of La Mancha: Selections
Newsreel: A Capitol Scene – Arrival of Senators, Viewing the City, Govt at work
Man and His World
A Kaleidoscope
TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL FESTIVAL
It seems particularly appropriate in this revolutionary time of national testing that again we should join together to celebrate this Festival of the Arts. The perspective of time makes clear that art speaks to all ages, all cultures, all races and testifies that all men are brothers. It is in his music, his painting, and his sculpture that man distinguishes himself from both animals and machines.
The lesson is important. To be given the chance to fulfill our artistic and creative potential is a fundamental human need. We share this sacramental feast, dedicated in fact not to art but to Man the artist. In no other way to we more positively proclaim our universal brotherhood, our creative kinship to God Himself. – HAROLD R. BLOMBERG PRESIDENT, BOARD OF ED
The arts are an inextinguishable reflection of the learnings of each age as one generation transmits to the next the ideals, the traditions, and the knowledge of the past. In the kaleidoscope of life, the arts provide the cylinder that molds into a vital whole the multi-faceted cultures contributed by the many races that form our nation – the cylinder that turns the colorful prisms of every aspect of living into a single flashing, fluctuating vista of beauty and pleasure.
The kaleidoscope of the arts reflects, too, the rapid changes that occur as educations seeks with sensitivity and zeal to meet the ever-shifting challenges of the new age, as it seeks to vlend into a worthy design the best of the old with the stimulating innovations of the new.
As our young people of today express their innermost selves through the arts, we note that the values, the ambitions, the skills, and the self-integrity of each are blended into a kaleidoscope of maturity and perceptive conscience. It is in the hands of these young people that we must place with confidence the responsibility of achieving a better world – a world of true equality for all men, a world with everlasting peace among all nations.
And so we exhort our youth – Fill the world around you with the beauty of your art! Sing your songs! Sing them with joy that they may lessen the wrongs on this earth and give to the warring world a truly glorious rebirth. – F. MELVYN LAWSON, SUPERINTENDENT
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They all sound so beautiful. On may 10th when I heard this, it is the glory of their unison. So cool.