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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY. 21, 1951.
SYMPHONIC HARMONY
IN. DASS STRING SECTION ure (left to right) Joseph Egnatzik, music shop owner; Pa- tricia Hill, minister's wifet: lucent Gladys Keidel, James V. Young," an executive,
+ VIOLINISTS include Arthur, Patrick (left background), insurance agent; student Non- cy Hill; Llewellyn Watts, commission broker, and P. E. Mills, corporation executives
Those ooger Mountain Lakes girls are Maria Hill (left) and Lydia Doak, neophytos from grammar and high school, whose flutes blend with violins of the elders.
THE BRASSES are the concern equally of high school student! Roy Storey (left) and engineer Jack Redington. With such concentration it is natural town has no juke boxes.
MUSICAL CHORDS bind the 2,500 residents of Mountain Lakes, Now Jersey. Into a harmoniously contented community probably without po Allel cisewhere in America. A full-fledged symphony orchestra of ove 30-amateur musicians enables-is-town to boast quite models that. It is, the rest in the country supporting an institution which would be unique in even a large city.
Fram its mere 650, hames, the Mountain Lakes symphony draws a taler ranging from grandparin's to their offspring still in school.' Thres generations of music lovers-grandfather, sin and granddaughter-ce- presint ene focal household.
As a fine example of sinetre cultural democracy, this orchesten neatly ca's thigh all relat barriers. A vice-president of a famous laboratory play the cello next to a schoal janiter. Diversity of background melts away in the warmth of love of music.
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For 30 years, small groups of Mountain Lakes residents 'conductid inferma Sunday musto cessions, Thin recently they merged into the full symphony which now enjoys the active support of the whole town, Concerts are played twice a year in the high school auditorium.
UCambourakla conducta.Mountain Lakes Symphony Orchestru
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