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MORE A MUSICALLY inclined black political organization than a choir, Harvard's Kuumba singers will be four years old in November. The word "kuumba," Swahili for "creativity," typifies the group's spirit. Their repertoire is not confined to any single style of black music or even solely to music. Their musical performance ranges from spirituals, gospels and African folk songs to modern rhythm and blues. Essay and poetry readings from "I am somebody" theme of Jesse Jackson to the caustic verse of black poets like Don Lee also find their way into many Kuumba concerts...
Linda Buck '76, another student director, echoes Gatson's sentiments, "It's not so much a choir as a feeling or atmosphere created from working and fighting together. It becomes a part of you, a part of you that you really love...
...felt the need of a group, I missed mine," says Walters, who directed the Choral Society at Shaw University before coming to Harvard. "I wanted to continue to conduct a choir. I found many interested and talented black students, most of them situated at Harvard...
...Louis in the middle of the Seine. Some 400 mourners, including his widow Claude, his son Alain, members of the government and old friends, crowded the baroque church for the 50-minute service. His casket was draped with the French tricolor and, as he had requested, a choir of monks chanted ancient Gregorian hymns. After the ceremony, a cortege of black Citroëns carried the immediate family and the casket to the Pompidous' weekend retreat in the village of Orvilliers, 31 miles outside of Paris. There, after an eight-minute prayer service, the body of the late President...
...also been unstoppable. By the time he was two, spoons in hand, Stevie was beating away rhythmically on pans and tabletops, or on dime-store cardboard drums. At nine, he was singing and playing harmonica up and down the Detroit ghetto streets, and being eased out of the church choir for singing rock 'n' roll. Three years later, he had become the "twelve-year-old genius" of Motown Records, the black pop giant. Rechristened Little Stevie Wonder, he was a strutting, shimmying minibopper who rode to the top of the record charts and $1 million in sales with...