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While current members effusively praise the musical blend and tone of the group achieved during the summer, they are hesitant to discuss the quality of the Glee Club sound now. The transition of conductors from Adams to Marvin at the beginning of the school year has left the club unsettled...
...Glee Club is run by a six-man executive committee plus the conductor and the assistant conductor, Kvam said. Student managers and club executives estimate they spend up to 30 or 40 hours a week organizing and administering the group's activities. Members said the tradition of student management of the group is a vital part of the group's 121-year history...
...Glee Club executives estimate they accept about 15 per cent of the nearly 200 men who audition for the group every September. "Based on the rating the conductor gives the people that are trying out, the executive 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...