Word: glees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Preceeding Professor Palmer's address were several piano solos by G. W. Woodward '24, accompanist of the University Glee Club. B. K. Little 1G. presided...
...addition to Professor Palmer's address, will be several piano solos by G. W. Woodward '24, accompanist of the University Glee Club. B. K. Little 1G., a member of the executive committee of the Graduate Schools Society, will preside...
...conducting the club, most of the songs rendered were of the "Polly Wolly Doodle" type. Little by little, by introducing the selections of the choir into the programs of the larger organization, undergraduate opinion--the most conservative in the world--was prevailed upon to accept as its Glee Club a chorus which had in its repertoire something besides "Good Night, Ladies" and the "Bulldog on the Bank." In the face of incredulity and disbelief, the conductor and his little group of serious thinkers ploughed bravely ahead until they had proved their point that college men were really just as eager...
...natural, if undesirable, outcome of this growth, the thought of professionalism was associated with the organization. Anything that the Glee Club can do to make its undergraduate character more patent to the outside world, such as the new system of placing season tickets on sale, for the benefit of the college before they are offered to the hoi polloi of Boston, will aid materially in allaying such an impression...
...program of the organization's concerts will include a departure from those of previous years in that contemporary music will be played as much as, possible, according to an announcement made yesterday by Walter Piston '24, for many years conductor of the Glee Club. He also stated that a particular effort would be made to produce music composed by members of the University. The established classics, especially those of Mozart, Mendelshon, Shubert, and Beethoven, will, however, have a large place on the program of every Sodality concert...