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Loosen the notes in a siloer shower Brahms, Puccini, MacDoweU . lullabies, fantasies, folk songs, and spirituals .. voices blending in harmonious melody - the Glee Club of Western Maryland College. The Women's Glee Club is composed of music students and all other women student, who desire to take part in the study and per- formance of choral music of the highest qual- ity. The purpose of the Glee Club is to de- velop a keen appreciation of and a love 1'01' great music written and arranged for women's voices. The Glee Club presented a concert of music from early composers to modern writers Cook, who told of her experiences in France in one of the March assembly periods. Prior at the beginning of the present war. to the singing in assembly, the program was December-Le Cercle held its traditional broadcast during one of the regular Tuesday Christmas program of carols and readings afternoon broadcasts from the Recital Room from the Sainte Bible. or the Music Hall. During the winter, the club presented a radio broadcast in the form of a quiz pro- ~11ege CAo/II gram. Later, it sponsored, at the State Whose music is the gladness of the 'World Theatre, "the best foreign film of 1940," Outstanding among the Western Maryland Harvest. music activities is the College Choir composed April-The annual contest of French Clubs of about fifty voices, and directed by Alfred was held at the University of Maryland. For de Long. An enviable record was made this the third time, Le Cercle Francais placed first, year in the presentation of the music of the with a presentation of Pelleas et Melisande by highest type. The choir as an organization Maurice Maeterlinck. aims to explore the literature of the great