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...founded in 1970 by Dennis W. Wiley ’72 and Fred A. Lucas ’72 at a time when racial hostility in Boston was rampant. Originally created as a safe space for black students on the Harvard campus and in the greater Boston area, the choir??s focus more recently has shifted towards celebrating black culture. Vice President Kaydene K. Grinnell ’10 says, “Our goal is to celebrate black creativity and spirituality, and that is done through music, dance, song, and spoken word...
...piano chords, and the dramatic rumble of orchestral percussion. With a switch to a major key near the end, the song’s brooding quality eventually gives way to a lighter tone, but its passion is maintained. The track ends on a truly epic note, as the full choir??s harmony and the percussion’s deep rumblings ascend to a point of almost religious fervor...
...However, the overall effect of the work was almost mythic. The waves of sound continued to build to the end of “Choral Fantasy” with the full grandeur of the choir??s pure harmonies, the strings’ furious tremolo, and Elkies’s intense scales and arpeggios. The evening as a whole was similarly fantastic...
...Birthday cakes have even been frosted lovingly with his portrait. What’s more, he only hit the big day in January, which means—fortunately for audiences everywhere—that there’s still plenty to come. The festivities continue with the Harvard University Choir??s performance of Mozart’s “Requiem,” his final and unfinished work. The piece captures the composer at the height of his creative trajectory, and encompasses desperate, fiery emotions not evident in many of his other compositions. Even before...
...featured dinner, heartfelt testimonials, and copious Backstreet Boys references, suggesting that knowing all the lyrics to “Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely” really does bring you closer to God. AACF kicked off the program’s “preaching to the choir?? section with a performance from PBJ—Praise Band for Jesus, of course—and John K. Lin ’08’s testimonial of Christianity and loneliness at Harvard, during which he blamed God for sending him to Harvard instead of Stanford...