Word: glees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Verdi Te Deum, performed by the multitudes of the Glee Club, Choral Society, and Orchestra, was in contrast, a thrilling piece. Verdi uses a number of effective emotional techniques. He alternates short phrases between the men's and women's choruses, contrasting an esoteric female sound with the rich, luscious chords that a male chorus can provide. He goes from one extreme of the dynamics spectrum to the other in a relatively short period of time. And he startles you with sudden harmonic shifts into big, massive, stirring chords...
...ROBBED THE ROBBER BARONS, by Andy Logan. The shoddy story of Colonel William d'Alton Mann, a courtly Manhattan publisher who looked like Santa Claus but carried a sackful of hush money, is told with skill and glee in this brisk biography...
...Girlish glee goes with grim ideology in Bettina. "Everyone said we were finks for supporting Johnson in 1964," she says, but Communists had to back L.BJ. because "Goldwater was a neofascist." Now she says that "President Johnson and Secretary of Defense McNamara and the whole damned Administration are hypocrites and liars and have betrayed the American people...
Although the HRO and the Glee Club's Far Eastern tour will both take place in the summer of 1967, neither group anticipates a conflict of fund-raising interests. Mrs. Blaumanis and Ned Goodhue '67. HGC tour manager, noted that they will be appealing to groups interested in different areas of the world...
...most memorable moment of the evening, though, was James Jones's solo in the "Glory to God" from Handel's Joshua. Mr. Jones gave a strong, well-intoned and highly musical performance, supported ably by the Glee Club. And our football songs were, of course, superior to their football songs...