Word: conductors
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...early 20th century, the club changed from a group of unorganized, rowdy musicians to a highly-structured, sophisticated unit, under the advent of their first conductor, Archibald T. Davidson. In so doing, the Glee Club "spawned a revolution in choral music by undertaking the serious performance of classical music," as one current member put it. Audiences, however, were not ready for the new approach. In its first attempts at classical music, the Glee Club was afraid it would be booed off stage...
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...
...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, pointed out that in any transition process there are casualties. "This has been rougher than any transition period before because Jim [Marvin] is the first conductor hired from outside Harvard," Conant said. "To look at it objectively, Jim is an unwanted guest. If the students had had their choice, they would have kept John Adams. With that background, Jim certainly didn't have a red carpet that was just lush with welcome. It's shame, because he has had a wealth of musical experience...