Show r t I 1 One day a R long long time ago agos as s the they u say In fairy falty stories storie but this one ono Is true out our mrele learn learner ten en er et said ehe she was waa going to form torm a quartet out put ot of the high school glee club The final try outs for tenor narrowed down to two Doe Doc Doc Loar Lear and me I didn't win the spot I was crushed The fact that Doe Doc had hada a much finer natural tenor than mine was secondary to the fact that I 1 was waa secondary For a couple of ot weeks I pouted i iThen Then I won the yard yard dash In Ina a track meet and the pout Out ds dis appeared I was no longer secondary secondary sec sec- Now I could admit to toI I myself that I hadn't really tried I to sing Bing a good tenor in the tryout try try- out outs 3 I had probably been pout pout- I ling trig lug because I I. I was forced to tryout try tryout I out in the first place instead of being named Just automatically see Can you imagine what sort of ot person I would have turned outto out outto outto to be If I hadn't won a certain race footrace I could have spent the rest reat of my life hiding behind an Inferiority In f complex Old Shrinking Shrinking Shrink Shrink- ing Violet l the they might have called me My ly Lady Fair would never have asked me mo to marry her because 1 I would never h have ve asked her for fora a a. a date to go roller skating In the first place If some one had asked me to get up and talk I might have fainted If I had been suggested for an office I would have blush I ed and declined Just Imagine me blushing and declining any any- i thin thing It U my name were men men-i me men mentioned 1 Honed for any kind of public appearance it would have brought I about acute dropsy A A. first tenor him Ill I'll t tell you what happened A few years Inter I chased around nights with pur or five other other- guys gays We all loved to sing Real noisy Loud Loud harmony But pretty mind you Trouble was I was the only first I I tenor Something bust Now Ima Im I'm Ima I a a run of the Old Mill Stream I melody melody man This is not a reminiscent Good I I Old Days memory piece Im I'm leading leading lead lead- ing up to something Dont Don't go goway go gowa wa way Im I'm being only half facet facet- ous I I resent the attitude of at least one ODe of the Judges at the District Music l Contest held In I Morgan l last week end He Ue was almost never ing He was sarcastically down down- grading He knows more music than all the contestants put t together to to- together gether but what he knows about school high psychology he could stuff in his ear Or else- else where j One cannot expect professional stage presence from high school freshmen And probably high school freshmen derided for this lack will never try again He hll has given them an inferiority complex com corn plex which unless s they win something something something some some- thing next week they may never overcome I How lIow a director of music In a university as large and Import Import- i ah ant as IWU can have the un paralleled guts to tell 3 d high school piano player that just Juat j because het hes he giving her an A doesn't dOE mean the she It la a good pianist that a freshman fruhman girl ringer stiff tens tenSe tenso and half Ill half III with her first stage appearance has the worst stage presence he ever saw how he can literally lit and In sneer r at atthe atthe atthe the finest efforts effort of kids who could be yours youra and mine all this enrages me I How much nicer more human Ito I i to say something tike like Fine fine 1 but watch your arpeggios Try to tov toI I x v everybody Is with you rooting tooting for tor you Im I'm giving you an A but your left hand needs more work Im I'm sure aure you'll be beich beIch ich better next year I wonder it if perhaps youve you've been practicing too many Hours flours that might account account ac ac- ac count for some strain BYU nYU has enough students They wont won't mind losing a few potentials which they did here last IlIs week end Especially In music embarrassed kids I say Dont Don't pay a bit of attention to a snob who ex expects you to be of pro professional e lonal caliber while youre you're lu iu high school And dont don't quit now just because one person says youre you're not very good We Werl rl rU think youre you're just wonderful Mac Mac |