SewanQQ Purple The Official Organ of the Students of The University of the South LXVIII, No. 10 SEWANEE, TENNESSEE, DECEMHKli 14, 1%0 N. S. No. 1,310 Sewanee Forestry Group Sewanee Choir Performs Completes Club Lake, Cabin Carol Concert Tonight By BOH SCHNEIDER 1958 and dedicated to the choir at the The Sewanee Forestry Club has an- S"ate University at Potsdam, New York. | The Festival of Lessons and Carols, nounced completion of its lake and 1o be held tonight at 8:00 in All Saints' The program presented at St. Paul's part of the unique Festival to cabin which were started as a project Chapel climaxes the Christmas activi- forms a be presented this evening. The Festi- n.irly List year. This unique cabin built ies of the University Choir, which be- gBn with a concert at Athens, Alabama val is a departure from the usual by the club members overlooks tho highlights on December 4, followed by Festival Christmas concert which this beautiful North Cove of the mountain Choral Evensong at St. Paul's Church, season's activities at the University. and is situated between Cherry Point -hnttanooga, Tennessee, on Decemher In addition to the Choir, the Festival and its adjoining hollow. A noticeable 12. ill feature the University Band; the feature of the cabin is its eight-foot At the Athens conceit, the choir, di- Brass Choir; the Chamber Group; the native fieldstone fireplace and stone rected by organist and choirmaster Dr. Children's Choir of Otey Parish, under floor. The cabin measures twenty- William Lemonds, with Brass Choir and the direction of Mrs. Monroe K. Spears; eight feet by sixteen feet and is made Chamber Group, offered a variety of and the Cantata Singers, a newly-or- of heavy creosoted cross-ties. secular and sacred music with empha- ganized mixed choral group composed A two-acre lake lies directly behind sis on the Christmas season. The pro- of members of the academic community. the cabin. The lake, just as the cabin, gram at St. Paul's was woven into the The Festival is a traditional service was built for the most part by mem- context of the service of Choral Even- hich has its roots in the Middle Ages, bers of the club who surveyed the site song, at which the Rev. Charles Win- may have evolved from a sixth-cen- and clear-cut the two acres. A total of ters, Associate Professor of Theology, tury Byzantine choir office. The first 1,500 Brim were stocked in the lake officiated. modern service of this kind was held just last week and plans are being The music presented at the Evensong at Truro Cathedral, England, in 1880. made now for a sand beach next to service reflects, both chronologically Several services similar to the Truro the cabin. and stylistically, a wide range of the Order were developed including the Kings College, Cambridge. With the completion of the cabin the \ocal and instrumental arts. The first Order at offering of the choir, "Gloria in Excel- The annual Festival at Kings College, club is looking forward to new pro- Yuletide On The Mountain Guillermus Dufay (c. 1400- one of the most popular services in jects. One idea under consideration is by Flemish England, has been a powerful force in the stocking of quail and pheasant on 1474), is characteristic of the bringing carols back into the worship the University Farm next year for stu- Loaded With Unique Traditions school. Church. dent and faculty hunting. Permits The Gloria, written for two voice: of the Yuletide at Sewanee is one of "Hey! You don't live in this dorm.' The id is strictly canonic ir With a few changes, the service at would be sold at a nominal fee to those trombones, its unique traditions. It is the time of "Sure, I do." and is representative of .ne poly- All Saints' will follow the Kings Col- desiring to hunt. The fee would cover rni, the year when everyone is bubbling "What Renaissance. lege Order.. The service will be pre- handling charges for the game birds. ionic music of the because "Last right, second with the Christmas spirit—not appropriate point in th< ceded by a concert of carols by Uni- Other club members are planning to At the next of the four quizzes they have during Pater Noster, by Gevaert, versity Carillonneur, Albert Bonholzer, trap predators on the Domain •rvice, the game the head." the last week here, but because after "That's followed by fifteen minutes of Christ- soon after the start of the new year. two weeks and "Yeah, I know." those quizzes they have The o<Wtory anthem was "A Little isie by the University Band, Last spring the club joined the South- on their The esoteric little parties held in the four days in which to catch up Christmas Cantata" by Fritz Dietrich. from the south Organ Loft. At ern Association of Forestry Schools and home of the theologs at St. Luke's, of- studying. rW Christmas story, Luke 2:1-20 forms 8:00, the Children's Choir will lead the Clubs in participating at its annual con- for frater- ten go unnoticed by the unde-rgrnds in It is the time of the year the basis of this work, to which have University Choir, Brass Choir, and clave at Pine Mountain, Georgia. Even solid school. What goes on behind those nity teas. For almost one week been added four verses of Martin Lu- Chamber Group in candlelight proces- though the Sewanee club is the small- doors? This is a question people are stuffed with cookies, nuts, close-peaked Thee, Eter- to the Chancel. The Cantata Sing- i hymn "All Praise to sion fifth the est in the country it placed in peppermint candies, on which it is difficult to speculate. crackers, cakes, nal God" at appropriate points in the ers will be in the rear of the Nave. University of contests ahead of the etc. In addition to being However, there are some tell-tale songs, around etc., etc., etc., text. The Cantata was written in 1957. The service proper is built Ste- North Carolina, F. S. U., L. S. U., in drinks ranging from egg screams and other noises that are heard Holy drowned It was performed by the choir, with the reading of nine lessons from phen F. Austin, Mississippi State, Au- to by the all-unknowing students of Walsh nog (with and without the "nog") Jack Richardson as Evangelist, and, Scripture, beginning with the creation burn, and the University of Oklahoma. without the "punch") and Science Hails. Maybe the Puhple punch (with and the Chamber Group, featuring Mr. and story in Genesis and leading to the In- Plans are now being made to attend fac- will see fit this year to send a reporter to almost anything a student or a Mrs. Robert Brooke, recorders; Mrs. carnation as recorded in the Gospel ac- the 1961 conclave at Kingsley, Florida. on. disguised as a bottle of Vat 69 over to ulty member can get his hands Thomas Dilkes, violin; William Heiss, cording to St, John. The lessons will great ice storm of last course, there are the dor- spy and bring back Presi- During the Then, of cello; and Dr. Lemonds, harpsichord. be read by the following: The invalu- the matrons. the happening; <},! 'S. iir- Presi- winter the club performed an mitory parties thrown by Carols at the Offertory included dent of the Order of Gownsmen, clean- quite clock on the I of tit able service to the University by [Tuesday night] This night is "Gloria Tibi, Domine," XVth Century dent of the Choir. Vice -Chancellor, fire- spend last day all the students flock to Dean ing up the fallen trees and taking trying for the students who much English; "While by my Sheep," XVIIth Chaplain, Superintendent of SMA, Dean were dorm in or- Webb's office to explain why they were the wood to outlying homes which of it running from dorm to Century; and "The Carol of the Birds", of the School of Theology, Dean of service setting the not able to attend their eight o'clock Univer- without means of heat. This der to see which matron is a Catalan folk-song featuring Jean Le- College of Arts and Sciences, is spent classes. At 12:01 the Mountain is silent. and the will long be remembered by the Se- best table. The rest of the night monds as soloist. sity Organist and Choirmaster, trying to students have said their "Merry by these party crashers in The The Responsory was a contemporary Chairman of the Student Vestry. Be- "chrashees" that they Christmassea" and their "Happy New carols will be sung by This year the officers are John Wad- work for choir and brass choir by Ar- tween lessons, resi- live in this dormitory. Years" and gone. The permanent congregation and choirs. The ser- dell, President; Emory Akerman, Sec- Uy do thur Frackenpohl entitled "Shepherds, both dents have settled down to a nice quiet conversation overheard last year ( Continued on page 4) retary; John Keck. Treasurer; Rusty i. Rejoice." This piece was written in this: ...kb:,.iion of the Holidays. Frank, Vice-President. i like Brubeck, MJQ To Perform Here ranked at the top sive concert tours of Europe and Asia. The Dave Brubeck Quartet and the The two quartets popularity poll held by (Brubeck will begin another continen- Modern Jazz Quartet have signed con- of the 1960 jazz magazine: the MJQ is tal tour in the spring.) cert contracts with the Sewanee Jazz Downbeat first in the nation and the Dave their store of cre- Society.