Word: glees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rooms on the quadrangle were ordered to light their lights at dark. The hits of the evening were a rendition of "Daddy Longlegs," a Hawaiian trio composed of J. A. Patterson '19, B. A. Jenkins '19, and H. H. Pell '19, and the "Anvil Chorus" of the Freshman Glee Club. Smith Halls won the interdormitory singing laurels...
...were retained for further consideration. It is expected that ten of these aspirants will be chosen for the final contest. This event will take place in Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, on the evening of April 4. The occasion is to be open to the public. A double quartet from the Glee Club will perform pending the decision of the judges...
...Boston Symphony came last week to Manhattan-with Serge Koussevitzky for conductor, Contralto Margarete Matzenauer, Tenor Tudor Davies, Baritone Fraser Gange for soloists, the Harvard Glee Club for a Chorus, and Speaker Paul Leyssac. This combination gave, as it did a fortnight ago in Boston (TIME, Mar. 5), the Œdipus Rex of Igor Stravinsky. Even the ablest critics sometimes disagree. Said Samuel Chotzinov (the World): ". . . a desperate attempt at a musical interpretation of lofty cosmic tragedy . . . a presumptuous drive with nothing of any consequence to back...
...Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society, trained by Professor A. T. Davison '06, will join forces with the entire Boston Symphony Orchestra in the production of Arthur Honegger's famous work. This will mark the first appearance in Boston of an opera oratorio which has been so successful in the musical centres as to create a demand for this contemporary choral music...
Although "King David" is not pronounced such a difficult work to perform as Stravinsky's "Oedipue Rex", it is nevertheless, another production worthy of the Glee Club's talent according to many critics...