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...most interesting four year changes I’ve ever seen,” says Kevin Leong, assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club, a group Saito has been devoted to since freshman year. As a kid, Saito sang in a boys’ choir and played violin, but it was only here that he fully realized his connection to music. Standing outside Holden Chapel, what Saito calls the “spiritual center” of the Glee Club, he speaks of music in deeply passionate terms. “Music can produce transcendent and trance-like states, which...
When University President Lawrence H. Summers was installed in Tercentenary Theater in October 2001, a choir of Harvard undergraduates sang “America the Beautiful.“ And, as nauseatingly corny as it sounds—and as nauseatingly corny as it was—I cried. (At the time I took great care that my friends standing near me couldn’t see me doing anything so embarrassing, but I guess I’ve rather blown that now.) I didn’t cry for the people who had died in the attacks...
...sixty-member Collegium mixed choir serenaded audiences Friday evening with a truly classic program. Most notably, the evening’s Brahms theme was very well carried in “Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen” and “Lass dich nur nichts nicht dauren.” The versatile talents of the chorus were displayed in the former work with an achingly beautiful rendition of the first movement followed by rounds in the second movement. Especially praiseworthy was the piece’s sensitive harmonization between the soprano and alto parts...
...number of high school and college stereotypes, acutely playing off of teenage insecurities—it tells its audience that any transformation can be made with MTV’s help. In its casting call, MTV asks: “Are you…The soprano in the church choir but secretly want to learn how to rock? The computer geek who wants to put down his pocket protectors and pick up a varsity jacket?” If so, MTV suggests that you are a perfect candidate for “MADE.” Recent episodes have profiled...
...anything like that,” she says. “Lots of the speakers we have, and lots of the topics we deal with, call for that type of follow up. When you’re just talking, you always run the risk of just preaching to the choir...