Word: capella
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From a skating party in Bright Hockey Center to a private concert by five a capella singing groups in Dunster House, the Admissions Office every winter does its best to give incoming students their first "real" taste of life in the Ivy League...
They are the few, the proud, the select who survive rigorous auditions and make it into the small, elite world of Harvard's five a capella singing groups...
...capella singing is a relative newcomer to the Harvard music scene. While the Krokodiloes, the oldest of the five, initiated a capella singing at Harvard in 1946, the Glee Club began in the late nineteenth century. The rest of the close-harmony groups trailed the Kroks by three decades; the Radcliffe Pitches, the Din and Tonics, and the Opportunes established themselves within the past fifteen years, while the all-freshman Veritones wrote their official charter this past fall...
...most successful auditioners have some prior collegiate singing experience in the Glee Club, Radcliffe Chorale Society (RCS) or Collegium, although a fair number of freshman break right into the a capella ranks...
...HREC even has plans to record an album, ideally using the musical talents of the Harvard/Radcliffe Orchestra and Harvard rock groups, and the vocal talents of the Glee Club and a capella groups. The record would be sold on campus, at alumni functions, and at Harvard's 350th Anniversary celebration next fall, club members say, with the album's proceeds being donated to a charity...