Word: cappella
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...station's general manager, is heading up one of WHRB's latest projects to encourage more Harvard students to listen. The station is producing a compilation compact disc of Harvard music--the greatest hits of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the Mozart Society Orchestra, a handful of Harvard a cappella groups and the Kuumba singers--that Dorsainville hopes to send to incoming students the summer before their first year at Harvard...
...More than a decade ago Paul Simon's "Graceland" album introduced Ladysmith Black Mambazo to international popular culture, promoting this a cappella ensemble as a global emissary of isicathamiya and its sonorous hymns of protest and healing. For years apartheid repression haunted this music, with verses mourning loss of ancestral land to European farmers and love eroded by the distance between a Zulu migrant worker and his rural family waiting for him and his wages. Now in South Africa many isicathamiya performers no longer denounce white minority rule. New lyrics portray Africans straddling rural tradition and urban modernity, and dreams...
...groups is working to decide how the building can best be reconfigured without permanently displacing the Theatricals, the Hasty Pudding Social Club, and the a cappella groups, the Krokodiloes and Radcliffe Pitches...
...Constant Sorrow," "Man of Constant Sorrow," particularly those by the Soggy Bottom Boys (actually, varying configurations of Union Station and friends); Chris Thomas King's bluesy "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues"; "I'll Fly Away," by Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch; and Ralph Stanley's a cappella version of "O Death," a stark, primordial Appalachian apparition. But even such an unvarnished evocation of mortality doesn't cast a shadow over the collection's - and the film's - overall mood of sweet melancholy, encapsulated by Harry McClintock's 1928 recording of "Big Rock Candy Mountain." Not only is there...
...Even though the football game itself is a big deal, that wasn't the only form of competition this weekend," says Kathie Koo '04. "This weekend, there were competitions between a cappella groups and bands, for example. That's why politics would be an issue. Everyone is trying to think of ways to prove Harvard is better, so we can be redeemed even if we lost the game...