Word: glees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest in banjo and mandolin music, it was felt that the Clubs' strongest assets were the Vocal Club, the Gold Coast Orchestra, and the Speciality Division. Particularly strong was the position of the Vocal Club, since it represents a field of group singing untouched by the activities of the Glee Club...
Various changes in the course of music generally have affected the instrumental groups in the last five years. First came the development of serious choral music in the New England schools, which, by rigorous training in choirs and glee clubs, have pointed their students toward the Harvard Glee Club rather than for the informal singing that the Instrumental Clubs provide. Currently, came the shift of taste from banjo and mandolin to violin, 'cello, flute, and the like, a shift which has prospered the Pierian Sodality, but has laid the banjo and mandolin clubs in the grave. Couple all this with...
...announcements will be made in French by a member of the Glee Club, H. Lane Blackwell '39, and will be translated into English by Marcel Francon, instructor in Romanco Languages...
...Glee Club's program will include: two Italian folk songs; a French selection, "Les Anges"; a chorus from "Orpheus" by Gluck; "Tutti Venite Amati"; choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patienco"; "Glorious Apollo"; and "O Domine Jesu Christi" by Joachim Des Pres...
...Glee Club, under the direction of Archibald T. Davison, prefessor of Choral Music, made a trip to France partly sponsored by the French Government and presented a concert on the Place D'Arey in Dijon. The singers received a very cordial greeting from the students and faculty there, and Dr. Davison was awarded the Academic Palm by the French Government