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...rises on his toes, bends his knees, and rocks back and forth, his mouth moving in time to the music and his feet quivering across the platform. One might easily think the entire sound of the 65-man Glee Club is emanating from Jameson N. Marvin, the Holden Choirs?? Director of Choral Activities and a Senior Lecturer on Music...
Marvin, affectionately known as “Jim” by his students, is the latest of five conductors for the Holden Choirs??composed of the Glee Club, Collegium Musicum, and the Radcliffe Choral Society—since the Glee Club was founded in 1858. Marvin holds one of the most prominent choral conducting jobs in the country: the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society are, respectively, the oldest men’s and the oldest women’s collegiate chorus in the country...
These stories are so deeply ingrained in the institutional memory of the Holden Choirs??a memory that stretches back further than the Crimson’s archives—that whenever a Holden singer discusses anything that the choruses have done, they’ll use the first person plural. As a result, 19-year-old students with laptops in bag and cell phones in pocket develop a verbal tic of referring to high jinks they enjoyed during the late nineteenth century or early 1970s...
...square feet of space,” estimates Collegium manager Gena M. Haugen ’09. “It’s extremely crowded, but we’ve done it before.” Despite the grueling work involved in preparing this piece, Holden Choirs?? associate conductor, Dr. Kevin C. Leong (a graduate of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) believes that this experience will be rewarding to all involved. “When I first performed in a concert of the Mahler 2, I really felt like my life had been changed...
Originally hired in 1996, DeFotis assisted Marvin as a rotating conductor for the Holden Choirs??composed of the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society...