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THE ORCHESTRA The Western Maryland College Orches- gram began with Beethoven's "King Ste- tra, under the direction of Professor Philip phen" Overture, followed by Haydn's "Sur- prise" Symphony. The next number, the Royer, enjoyed an extremely successful season this year. The organization con- Overture "Savannah," was written by Joyce tained about forty pieces, including It Barthelson in 1944, while she was teaching greatly enlarged string section. at Western Maryland, and dedicated to Mr. The three highly successful public per- Philip Royer and the College Orchestra. formances of the orchestra were all given Because of this, this entire program was in Alumni Hall. The first was an assembly, dedicated to Miss Banhelson. The last number of the evening was Beethoven's at which the conductors were members of the Student Conducting Class. Madeline First Piano Concerto in C Major, Opus 15. Buhrman, Lorna Haines, Pete Youngblood, Miss Helen Brainard very ably played the Louise Scott, and Max Bertholf all very ca- piano part. pably led the orchestra in compositions by For their last performance of t.he year, Wagner, Bach, Schubert, Tschaikowsky, approximately one half of the members of Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, and Strauss. the regular orchestra accompanied the Car. In April the orchestra gave its seven- roll County High Schools at the annual teenth annual spring concert. This pro· Eisteddfod. 144