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...leading up to a concert which was asymmetric in that men and women represented Yale while only men represented Harvard. Considering that the only concert the Harvard Glee Club presents to the Harvard community as a glee club is the annual fall football concert, I wrote to Fenno Heath, conductor of the Yale Glee Club, on April 30 expressing my wish to keep this year's concert in the traditional style: a performance by tow glee clubs. It was my understanding at the time that the Yale Glee Club and the Yale Women's Chorus were two separate organizations with...
...John Adams is Conductor of the Harvard Glee Club and Instructor in Music...
...best pianist in the under-30 group, he is certainly one of the busiest and most versatile men in music history. He gives 200 concerts a year on five continents. In London he is moving into television. He is getting busier and busier as a conductor, too, in the international style in which he does everything. When friends urge him to slow down, he reminds them of what the late Sir John Barbirolli once said: "When you're young you should have an excess of everything. If you haven't excess, what are you going to pare...
...have induced any reasonable audience to stay past intermission. The male chorus in competent in the opening scene, but only exemplary insofar as it drowns out the orchestra. Sully Bonn as Ruth has exactly the right singing voice for the part, but, alas, her acting is lackluster, and the conductor has made her opening song into an almost endless and boring dirge. Ronald Remy, as Frederic, is also the perfect singer for the role, but he can't act to save his life...
Fenno Heath, president of the Yale Glee Club, said that after this issue was settled, the Harvard Glee Club conductor then refused to let them sing "Fair Harvard" at the end of the concert. Instead of both clubs singing both alma maters, Harvard vacated the stage leaving Yale to sing alone. In protest, the Yale men and women sang their alma mater arm-in-arm. The Harvard club then returned to stage and mimicked the Yale club, with an all-male version of the same stunt...