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Volume 11, Issue 11, Week of March 24, 2014
Saskatoonʼs REAL Community Newspaper
Glee
University club to perform at Broadway Theatre From left to right: Meghan Mercer, Mitchell Corbett, Shana Yates and Andrew Hartman of the Newman Sounds Glee Club at rehearsal (Photo by Sandy Hutchinson) Cam Hutchinson Saskatoon Express
degree in music. Before leaving she helped Richard Medernach — coordinator of student services at STM — end the club’s ho knew? Saskatoon has a glee 15-year hiatus by directing the choir at club. STM in 2007. The roots of the club actually “When I came back I ran into Richard date back to the 1950s. That’s a long time to and said, ‘Let’s try it again, but this time we keep a secret. will make it a glee club.’ And it has really The Newman Sounds Glee Club, formed taken off,’” Raney said. under that name in 2010, will move out of Raney says the popular television show its comfortable home at St. Thomas More Glee played a role in her idea. College at the University of Saskatchewan “Sometimes I would watch the show and to perform March 29-30 at the Broadway get some inspiration from it,” she said. Theatre. Raney also drew inspiration from Sister Kristen Raney has directed the group Teresita Kambeitz, the director of Newman since returning from the University of Sounds from 1971 to 1985. Western Ontario in 2010 with her master’s “She is wonderful. When I first agreed
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to come and do this choir, Sister brought me her files of all the things the group had done. And it really gave me some inspiration for having a theme for each show and what to do as well. She comes to all our performances.” Sister Teresita became involved in 1971 when Father Bud Pare asked Claude Lang and her for ideas to get students more engaged in activities at STM. “In the early 1970s students were dropping off in terms of becoming involved in organizations,” Sister Teresita said. “It was a climate of the time when it wasn’t a cool thing to be doing.” The Newman Sounds became cool, just as it had been in the 1950s and early 1960s
when it was known as the Newman Singers. Back then the group recorded a couple of albums. “At the very first meeting (in 1971) several students asked — because I happened to be a musician — whether I would start up a music group. That’s how it came about. We started off with the songs of Jesus Christ Superstar. “We started off with quite a bang. The first evening there was such a crowd that we had to turn people away and quickly schedule a second performance. That was the only time that happened during my years at STM.” (Continued on page 4)