Word: glees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comfortable and settings that not only express the text, but project it to the audience. I don't quite know how he does it, and neither do his imitators: no matter how much their progressions sound like his, Thompson's understanding of the voice cannot be matched. The Glee Club is often foiled in its aim to get the text across by a bad setting. The singers work their hardest, but the result is ... zip. Although Friday night's texts were all in the program, it really wasn't necessary to follow them. Between the singers' crystalline diction, and Thompson...
...sing Thompson? Each of the four parts lies exposed. If one voice sticks out, or one section wanders off pitch by that much, even the Great Tin Ear couldn't miss it. It was a joy to hear Thompson conducting his own music, for he does it well. The Glee Club an Choral Society are to be commended on their blend, tone, and expression, and on their endurance as well (they stood throughout the entire concert...
This ideal was in Patrick's mind throughout; but unfortunately due to competing musical events in town, ticket sales had not reached expectations. A boost over a TV news program the morning of the concert was his answer, and he asked my helping publicizing the event by sending a Glee Club octet for a short sport at 7:20 a.m. When he learned that my choice of eight singers included a Negro, he warned that this octet, appearing at the beginning of the day would give segregationists a chance to organize violence or threats of violence which could thus undo...
...protested his suggestion that Mr. Epps be replaced by a white singer, but he urged me to reconsider in view of all that was at stake in the evening events. Since this was not an official appearance of the Glee Club but an effort to help a courageous Harvard man living in Birmingham achieve an important goal, I decided to consider sending simply seven singers. So I went to Mr. Epps to explain the dilemma. Mr. Epps said he understood this, objected to my decision on principle but would not obstruct it. And indeed he didn't. The next morning...
...were shocked and dismayed to learn of Professor Forbes' decision to allow the Glee Club Octet to sing on Alabama television without Mr. Epps last April 8. Quite clearly the only course of action in the situation described in the CRIMSON of April 20 was to cancel the television, appearance. Neither compromises nor apologies can replace the principled stand the situation required. Professor Forbes is far more responsible for the welfare and integrity of the Negro members of the Glee Club than he is for the speculative gains in Birmingham. We can only hope that such open affronts...