Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 17, Number 4, DeMotte, Jasper County, 13 December 1946 — St. Joe To Present Free Xmas Program [ARTICLE]

St. Joe To Present Free Xmas Program

Concert Will Be Given At Campus Theatre Tuesday Night, December 17th As a Christmas gift to the people of Jasper County, St. Joseph’s College wijl present a free Christmas Concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, December 17, in the campus theatre. The Glee Club and the choir will be under direction of the Rev. Lawrence Heiman, C.PP.S.; the band will be under direction of Prof. Paul Tonner. The curtains will part with an 80-voice chorus singing Silent Night. The next three songs will be Kentucky Babe, George M. Cohan’s Yankee Doodle Boy and Mary's a Grand Old Name, the last two by George M. Cohan. , Thirty-five selected voices will present The Riff Song from Sigmund Romberg’s “The Desert Song.” This will be followed by The Old Lamp-Lighter and Wagon Wheels. -f As a climax to the vocal portion of the program, a hundred voices will sing Leatentur Coeli, a song taken from the Midnight Mass. The band, featured in part two, will open with the overture, Trojan Prince. A lively number, Polka Dots, will feature a saxophone trio composed of Leo Tonner,' Rishard Wise and James Pluth. Paramount Polka, written by Professor Tonner, will be presented as a trumpet solo by Thomas Vonder Haar. A paraphrase of The Mocking Bird will feature Thomas Johnson on the drums. During the playing of Bells and Chimes, drum major Frank Murray will give a twirling exhibition. A trombone novelette called The Toreador will f&aturje John Royle, Edward Tweedie, Paul Wellman, William Ameling, and Paul Wohlwend. The program will close with a selection titled A Merry Christmas. It will be a medley of Jingle Bells, Joy to the World, Hark the Harold Angels Sing, Silent Night, and Adeste Fideles.