Word: capellas
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...until this year, Harvard’s a capella groups lined up in a well-recognized pecking order. The Krokodiloes, Pitches, Din and Tonics, Veritones, Callbacks and Opportunes were known as the “Grandfathered Six,” the only groups with the privilege of singing in Sanders Theater. On March 11, the Six became Seven as the Harvard Lowkeys, founded in the fall of 1999 by Susan E. Bell ’03, were admitted into a capella nobility...
...Lowkeys recently gained the rights to hold jams in Sanders Theater, as the six older a capella groups have been doing for over a decade. Lowkeys Vice President Eli J. Lederman ’03 describes the newly acquired rights as a “long road finished.” Lederman, President Oliver B. Libby ’03 and member Joshua R. Lacsina ’03 were all original members of the group. Lederman says that the goal was always that by graduation the group would be “fully self-sufficient...
...order to fully enter into Harvard mainstream a capella, the group had to go through an arduous ritual. First, the Lowkeys had to become an officially recognized student group. With Harvard’s official seal of approval in Fall 2000 the group could then operate a website on Harvard’s network, get a student mailbox, be listed among other official student groups, poster on campus, and most importantly, use Harvard space for rehearsal and performance...
...course, making a mash-up that anyone other than its creator would want to listen to requires a little finesse. You need to interlace the lyrics judiciously and learn subtleties like crossfades. But it's hard to go wrong mixing the a capella version of one song and the instrumental of another. It doesn't hurt that for years the music industry has been creating instrumental tracks on CD singles for the DJ market. If you can't find them, there's a piece of free software called Vocal Remover (at analogx.com that achieves the same effect; it's also...
DINS ENDANGERED: DON’T FEED THE ANIMALS. And certainly don’t feed them gin and tonics. But what about the Harvard Din and Tonics? Appearing on stage with a yet unannounced guest group, the Dins will mix up their trademark jazz a capella with dash of comedy. Saturday, March 1 at 8 p.m. Tickets $10, $7 students, available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617) 496-2222. Sanders Theatre...