Word: cappella
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...have been trying to crack the a cappella riddle for several months now. Why do all the groups have such snappy, clever names? Why do they all use that same human horseshoe configuration? Why must the singers constantly trade places between songs? And what do these people have against instruments...
...personal feelings about a cappella music are difficult to put into words. For some reason, I can't help comparing it to the time two years ago I went to a Celtics-Magic playoff game. Trailing for nearly the entire game, the Celtics cut the Orlando lead to one with a couple minutes left in the fourth quarter, and the crowd went into the most boisterous display of cheering and stomping I had ever seen. There was this undescribable and irrepressible sense of excitement wafting through the building. I couldn't help myself from becoming caught up in the experience...
CityStep organizers have also coordinated with the Bach Society Orchestra and the Callbacks, an a cappella group, to offer discounted tickets to those groups' performances, which will also be held tonight...
...that is exactly the problem. It is not ignorant students who get into trouble with the law, but those who know exactly what they're doing with their group's accounts. In 1995, two Yearbook officials were accused of embezzling Yearbook funds; in the same year, the a cappella group Krokodiloes announced that its treasurer had spent $3,000 of the group's money on personal items; in 1992, two students embezzled $127,000 from the Eliot House's ice skating fundraiser, An Evening With Champions; and last year, the former treasurer of the Currier House Committee was found...
Harvard's oldest a cappella group will head across the Atlantic in November for an all-expense paid trip to London in November, group members confirmed yesterday...