Word: capellas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shame to realize that relatively few student bands exist on campus compared to the yawn-inspiring plethora of a capella groups and orchestras. For every 500 chartreuse posters proclaiming another bee-bop doo-wop smile-and-tear fest, there may be at most one piece of paper trumpeting the latest experimentalist musical incarnation or student rock group. In general, Harvard students are content performing and interpreting compositions from oldies pop icons and classical composers, and fellow students are happy to shell out financial support to perpetuate this comfortable culture. But the number of students interested in creating music for collegiate...
...that there was some resentment directed at her show during common casting for precisely this reason: several other musicals were competing for the same pool of people. But Guys and Dolls, more than most other shows at Harvard, has attracted people from outside the regular theater community, from a capella to the Pudding to dance companies, and the result is a constant flow of energy and talent on the stage. The show makes a good argument for erasing some of the barriers between student arts groups at Harvard, if for no other reason than to increase the pleasure of their...
Often the groups of people that students choose to associate with derive from artificial and arbitrary categories. These categories are frequently linked to the extracurricular activities that we pursue--for example, students will characterize themselves as jocks, IOP/U.C. politicos, Crimson editors, Diversity and Distinction literati, musicians, a capella junkies or PBHA do-gooder types...
...fundraiser, called the Miracle Jam, is a concert performed by a capella groups at Harvard. But because Sigma Chi is not an official school group, the event must be sponsored by one of the a capella groups in order for it to rent out Sanders Theatre...
...hyped but two much simpler comedic forms: characters and physical gags--the two forms that TV houses most comfortably. Cable has created an endless number of Comedy Central-ready troupes: there are 50 sketch groups in Toronto alone. The cleverest of them, like L.A.'s sketch-comedy and a capella troupe the But Franklies, try to expand the genre. The rest are busy perfecting Limp...