Decembers, 1977
Pendulum
Page 3
The poetry corner
110 sing in ^Messiah^Sunday
Memories
by Becky Sharpe
Dusty smell
over creaking floors
that have groaned under
many feet,
The same framed pictures
hung when the
walls were young.
She rocks.
Thick, wrinkled stockings
smothering thin, stiffened
legs.
She grasps the arms with
spotted hands that once
danced on piano k^ys.
By the lake, on the
grass a daring young
girl let him kiss
her lips
He was so handsome
and the sky was so blue.
Sagging cheeks, a creamy
sallow faded denim eyes that
once dazzled like the
ocean.
She rocks.
In a small bedroom
a young girl smiled at
her reflection
Someday she’d be an
actress, she just knew.
White hair, coarse and
stiff, pulled sloppily in a
bun.
Hands that shake once
hurriedly swept through
black, shining hair.
The clock scolds her
fantasies with its ticking.
On one Christmas Eve,
a man told his wife
that he loved her, and it
seemed like the first time.
His eyes were filled
with some new light
And her heart nearly
burst between him
And the helpless innocent
just served into her arms.
She rocks.
It’s getting chilly.
A little girl shivered,
waiting for the schoolbus.
It’s getting dark.
A little girl feared the last
light switched off.
Never mind turning on
the lights.
Slowly she gets up and creeps
into the bedroom.
The rocking-chair
keeps rocking
until the clock says
it’s night.
Winter
By Dan Doby
The fire that once raged
inside You,
Is but a sad ember fading
And dreams we once held
above us.
Now settle at our weary feet.
For the life of me,
I cannot face this last
sad season
And though I long for lost
mandolins that I played
And the bright dresses
that you wore,
I know Winter will never
lay his nodding head.
So leave Love,
For it is forgotten
Leave Love where it lays
Leave Life to the living
I cannot live these empty
Days.
Beauty
Write me a Une with a
simple rhyme.
Take me away to an easier
time.
Give me an emotion
seldom now felt.
Surrounded by computers,
machines, and loud
noise
I still see the
beauty beyond what
man can destroy.
Sunday at 4 p.m. Handel’s
“Messiah” will be presented
by a 110-member choir, full
orchestra, and four soloists in
the Elon College gym.
Soprano soloist is Barbara
Cobb, the tenor is James V.
Cobb, the mezzo-soprano is
Martha Flowers of the music
faculty of UNC-Ch, and the
bass is Charles Lynam,
UNC-G, who has sung at Elon
often in the past.
The chorus will be made up
of the Elon College Choir, di
rected by James V. Cobb who
is new to the Elon music
Martha Flowers
faculty; the Alamance Corale,
directed by Walter Westafer,
chairman of the Elon music
department; and singers from
the Burlington-Elon College
community.
The Elon College-Com
munity Orchestra will provide
the orchestral accompaniment,
and its conductor, Malvin Art-
ley, will conduct the entire
performance of “The “Mes
siah.”
Miss Flowers, mezzo-so-
prano, has been praised for her
concert appearances around
the world as well as her “Bess”
of Gershwin’s opera. She has
appeared in Paris, Berlin,
Moscow, Leningrad, in South
America, Africa and New
Zealcind where she starred with
a company of native Maoris,
as well as in the U.S.A.
James Cobb comes to Elon
after five years at St. Andrews
College in Laurinburg, N.C.,
where he was chairman of the
music department. He held a
similar position for 10 years at
Atlantic Christian College.
Cobb received his B.M.
degree from Southwestern,
Memphis; his M.A. from
Boston University, and his
Doctor of Music Arts from
Illinois. He directs two choral
groups at Elon: the choir of 60
voices and a new group, the
Elon Chamber Singers, 14
members. He is married to the
former Barbara Hill of Gra
ham, and the couple have fou;
children. Mrs. Cobb, a so
prano, will sing the soprano
solos in the “Messiah” on
Sunday afternoon.
“We think that with the high
quality soloists and the diver
sified singers in the chorus,
plus the community orchestra,
the “Messiah” performance
will be quite different this year.
We think it will be one of the
best,” Dr. Westafer said.
The oratorio was written in
just 24 days, from August 22
to September 14, 1741. The
text is taken entirely from the
Scriptures. It was first per
formed in Dublin on Tuesday,
April 13, 1742, under the di
rection of the composer. When
the Hallelujah Chorus was
heard for the first time. King
George II and all the audience,
swayed by an irresistible im
pulse, rose spontaneously to its
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Civinettes, C. S. majors aid hundicapped
One of the high moments of
the Christmas season for a
group of Elon college students
is the night that they share with
the Social Ministry Committee
of the Macedonia Lutheran
Church of BurUngton for the
Handicapped of Alamance
county. The party will be held
Friday, Dec. 9, from 7 until
9:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall
of the church which will be
decorated with Christmas
greenery, candles and a Christ
mas tree.
The members of the Elon
College Campus Civinette
Club and the students who are
majoring in community ser
vices, along with their faculty
advisers, have planned the
entertainment for the party
and will provide a party
partner for the approximately
seventy guests.
The entertainment will in
clude musical selections by
Bobby Faulk and Joel Law
rence on dulcimers with bob
Covington on the spoons.
Peggy Parker will do a special
dance nimiber and Rick Anen-
dola and Kevin Hardin will
sing, accompanying them
selves on guitars. The Civin-
ettes are plaiming the party
games and will lead the group
in singing Christmas carols.
The Social Ministry Com
mittee which hosts the party
for the handicapped and the
Elon College students will serve
a feast of Christmas goodies
and also present a gift to each
of the special guests.
Dancing will follow refresh
ments.
The Student Government
offers a
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Pay: $3.00 hr.
plu8 fringe benefits
Sign up in S.G.A. office
209—Long Student Center
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Trip 2
Virgin Islands
1) Hotel accommodations/ 7 nights
2) Travel
3) Beautiful beaches
4) Cheap rum!
!r 12 or trips will be canceled!
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