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Adams was then assistant conductor to Elliott Forbes, who conducted the group throughout the 1960s. When Forbes stepped down, Adams shifted the group's emphasis to Renaissance music. In 1971, when some people began to fear that the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society would be merged to fill the need for a mixed musical singing group in the University, Adams founded the Harvard-Radcliffe College Collegium Musicum, which he conducted until he left...
...committee provisionally accepts a certain number of people from this audition pool," Wheadon said. The club then conducts a series of rehearsals and holds quartet trials, where candidates sing with old club members. Based on the second rating by the conductor, the executive committee makes final decisions on the choral hopefuls...
...Loring Conant Jr. '61, president of the Harvard Glee Club Foundation, a 27-year-old organization of Glee Club alumni that provides financial and moral support to Harvard choral music, agreed that the Glee Club has a nationally-acclaimed reputation...
...recordings still stand out as some of the best recordings in the orchestral choral lists," Conant said, adding "One way to gain prestige and exposure is to sing with a national orchestra, and that the Glee Club has succeeded in doing that for many years...
...year ago, the Music Department denied Adams tenure, despite his overwhelming student support. Last spring, Dean Rosovsky established a student search committee composed of members of the Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Collegium Musicum to find a successor to Adams. After narrowing the field and inviting the frontrunners to Cambridge to conduct the three groups, the committee chose Jameson M. Marvin, who was then offered the position by the Music Department. Adams is presently studying conducting in Germany...