Word: glees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friday's annual concert of the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society was a most ambitious program, worthy of the best professional choruses. It showed once again,--though proof is no longer needed--that these two groups, under the intelligent and stimulating direction of G. Wallace Woodworth, are leaders in American collegiate singing...
Randall Thompson, '20, will receive the Harvard Glee Club Medal at the Club's annual concert with the Radcliffe Choral Society on March 22, in Sanders Theater...
...first half of the concert was played by the Harvard Brass Choir, which made a noble attempt at the Contrapunctus One from Bach's Art of the Fugue, and delighted the audience with some Brass music of Johann Pezel, a 17th Century German Town Musician. The Leverett House Glee Club then joined the Brass for a Lied and Chorale by Mendelssohn. The Lied turned out to have the tune of "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" set to a German text praising Gutenberg. The effect of a lusty male chorus singing this with a Brass Choir is enough to revive...
...with an oppressed air, an uneasy smile and a cocky way of blurting his answers. His pronunciation is occasionally mangled, e.g., Joan of Arc was "beautified" in 1909. And his replies are so swift and sure, so full of extraneous details that come gushing with almaniacal glee that the show's producers feared at first that the show would seem...
Also participating in the concert will be the Harvard Brass Choir, conducted by Thomas B. Cox '57, and the Leverett House Glee Club...