Word: glee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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March 14-Intercollegiate glee club contest; preliminaries at Wanamaker Auditorium, Manhattan, finals at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan...
March 14?Intercollegiate glee club contest; preliminaries at Wanamaker Auditorium, Manhattan, finals at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan...
...nearby, as members of their classes sat nearby, as if they understood and enjoyed every word. Pupils, sent on the advice of their teachers and glad of any chance to go to the theatre, conscientiously endeavored to follow the dialogue during the first act, and gave little gasps of glee when they understood a "s'll yous plait" or a "danke schon." But by the second act all except the most proficient linguists gave up the battle, and lazily resigned themselves to watching the few French or German-horn person in the audience and laughing heartily whenever they gave signs...
...first place, we have no reason to feel that Glee Club music whether controlled by a student leader or a paid director will automatically become juvenile. The use of complete under-graduate control would quite possibly result in an attempt to produce more musically difficult work than an experienced director would be apt to be apt to use. Secondly, we feel very strongly that the college Glee Club should make every possible efforts to attain the standards of excellence which the Post feels is unnecessary. We do not imply that men should practice night and day, but that within...
...finally in objection to the Post's feelings about "highbrow" music, we are willing to admit that the programs of the Glee Clubs which we occasionally hear may be of the hybrid nature, calculated to tickle the palate of the lover of purely "college music" as well as that of the listener more interested in tone and technique. If, however, it were to be the sentiment that such hybrid programs should be removed, we would be far more in favor of breeding a pure strain of "highbrow music" than of fostering the tunes which we ourselves may shout...