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Friends also spoke of Lucker's love of music. She sang and played the piano and had served on the Board of Directors of John Oliver Choral and was a member of the Follen Church Choir...
...closer, in intonation, vocal virtuosity and care for a song's mood, to Bing Crosby than to any top singer of the past 30 years. The under-the-balcony tenorizing of It's Now or Never, the final detonation of pain and taunt in Are You Lonesome Tonight?, the choir-soloist power of the hymn He Touched Me--his voice breaking poignantly at the end of the hymn, as if he had just seen Jesus--these still thrill and haunt. So does his desire to please an audience of kids and grandmas instead of comfortably occupying a niche, as almost...
...Both of these guys are even more partisan, and more explicitly so, than Reed." Putting Reed's torch in such hands suggests the coalition is ready to concentrate on its natural constituency -- white, Protestant, conservative Republicans -- and forget overtures across political and ethnic lines. But preaching exclusively to the choir could prove limiting when the 1998 Congressional elections roll around. Certainly Tate, who pushed English-as-an-official-language legislation and immigration crackdowns while in office, is not the man to extend Reed's tentative forays into untapped black and Hispanic communities. At 1.8 million members and more than...
Along with music by the commencement choir, the exercises featured a poem by Patrick Muldoon and an oration by Anne L. Fadiman '75, traditional features of the centuries-old literary exercises...
...Harvard Glee Club and in the Harvard University Choir, and if you were in the choir, you ended up [having] to go to church every day," says the second-generation Chinese-Indonesian American. "I wasn't a particularly religious person before, but I ended up singing a lot and praying...