Word: cappella
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Waiting in the interminable noon Annenberg line, we are constantly accosted by upperclass students urging us to try out for another a cappella group or comp another student publication. In front of the Science Center, flyer-laden activists shove slips of yellow paper in our faces, exhorting us to join another cause. The unending deluge of paper wrangles my nerves. So does the exorbitant amounts of paper wasted in hand bills, and layered on bulletin boards. Stacks of flyers none of us will ever read inevitably accumulate. But we still keep taking them because, if we didn?...
...member of the a cappella community, I found the premise of the Oct. 10 Arts article “All Jammed Up” on a cappella unsupported and needlessly melodramatic. There is no evidence at all to suggest that any of the groups are suffering from a lack of funds, talented auditionees or attendance at concerts. The number of a cappella groups at Harvard merely reflects the amount of interest in singing that exists among students. If there were less interest, or less talent, there would be fewer groups, fewer auditionees and smaller audiences. As it is, nearly...
...become a Harvard student group in the face of strong opposition; sell out Lowell and Paine Halls; record two CDs; travel in the U.S. and to Paris; and sing for hundreds of audiences before even being considered for Sanders Theatre. We negotiated with the top a cappella groups at Harvard for years to be included in auditions, jams and the community in general. We had to prove ourselves to discerning audiences, singers and Harvard officials before we won our bid for Sanders, and it still took four years of hard work and commitment...
...that the LowKeys don’t take talent from the other groups—we simply give more talented people a place to sing. There is a limit to the number of groups we can have, but there is definitely enough talent to sustain the seven top a cappella groups today...
Finally, the article dwells on the notion that a cappella groups steal from other groups. If students want to sing a cappella, they will. They are not being forced to sing for us—in fact, it’s pretty tough to get in. We certainly don’t drag unwilling singers away from other ensembles. Demand dictates the supply of a cappella groups. If singers want a cappella more than anything else, they will audition. Many a cappella singers also do other activities: debate, dance, theater and choral music, to name...