Word: glees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yale-Harvard Glee Club Concert, despite some perplexing problems succeeded in a very enjoyable fashion. Instead of moving in the drab chronological way of so many concerts, the program, for instance, had the quiet counterpoint of Nanino lead to an erruptive Milhaud psalm setting. Both choruses performed their older serious works well, but they combined to render an only mildly exciting Part II Finale from Berlioz' Faust...
...happened in The Beggar's Opera songs when several jaunty soloists livened up the bland arrangement of an essentially impersonal chorus. Hearing a full chorus all evening robs music of its feeling because the tone colors and textures are so limited. Too many, groups sound like the imaginative Wiffenpoofs. Glee clubs must use smaller ensembles if they are to be more expressive...
After the intermission, however, the audience was on much more familiar ground, as the Harvard Glee Club sang a motet by Brumel and a "parody mass" based upon it by Des Pres. The result, as seems to be usual with the Glee Club, was flawless...
...Tigers were strangely cowed through their whole performance last night, but the Harvard Glee Club turned in crisp renditions that put the rival chorus at an even greater disadvantage than they would have suffered singing alone...
...will pass over the rest of Harvard's selections, merely reinforcing my initial sentiments. Russell Cartwright deserves special mention for his Vaudeville solo in Princeton, That's All, but undivided praise should go to the Harvard Glee Club as a whole for a real team effort. I need hardly say which side...