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This afternoon at 2.30 the University Glee Club will for the first time in its history sing in a regular subscription concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall. The Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral society, and the Orchestra will combine in presenting the first act of Richard Wagner's symbolic opera "Parsifal...
...Radcliffe Choral Society will join the Glee Club and the Boston Symphony in presenting the program. There will be seventy girls from the Choral Society and twelve men from the Flee Club behind the scenes under the direction of Dr. A. T. Davison '06; they will carry out the music which the pages are expected to sing. On the stage proper will be eighty members of the Glee Club who together with the Orchestra will be under the Personal supervision of Mr. Pierre Monteux, conductor of the Boston Symphony...
This success is due largely to the type of program that the Club offers. Breaking away, for the most part, from the time-worn college Glee Club rah-rah program, the organization presents selections from the greatest of modern choral numbers. It caters to the taste of true music lovers and endeavors to raise the standards of male choral work in the West, thus doing for the Coast what Harvard has done for the East. For its popular concerts it has prepared a program of lighter numbers and carries with if soloists, stunt men, and a complete college orchestra. This...
...sentiment which is strongly held by many graduates with reference to the variety of music presented by the Harvard Glee Club. With all respect to Dr. Davison and the members for the splendid results achieved, we feel that the Glee Club is not a glee club but a choral society and should be named accordingly, and that a real glee club should exist to sing the college songs which most people expect and want to hear when they attend a glee club concert. We have repeatedly heard this same opinion expressed by non-Harvard people as well as by graduates...
...this reason that the CRIMSON advocates the adoption of the name of "Choral Society",--an improvement which would be beneficial to both the College and the club. Those who expect a "vaudeville" rather than a "concert" would find entertainment in the Instrumental Clubs and the Double Quartette. With a "Choral Society" and the "Harvard Instrumental Clubs", there would be no confusion between the totally different aims of the two organizations...