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...capella singing is a relative newcomer to the Harvard music scene. While the Krokodiloes, the oldest of the five, initiated a capella singing at Harvard in 1946, the Glee Club began in the late nineteenth century. The rest of the close-harmony groups trailed the Kroks by three decades; the Radcliffe Pitches, the Din and Tonics, and the Opportunes established themselves within the past fifteen years, while the all-freshman Veritones wrote their official charter this past fall...
...most successful auditioners have some prior collegiate singing experience in the Glee Club, Radcliffe Chorale Society (RCS) or Collegium, although a fair number of freshman break right into the a capella ranks...
...Krokodiloes, 10 had been in the Glee Club, says Steven P. Dostart '86, a three-year veteran of the group. "[Prior musical experience] really makes a difference. A guy may audition who has a really nice voice, but he'd never been in anything--essentially his voice was untrained. We tell him to join the Glee Club and then re-audition the following year. They've got the voice, they just have to do something with...
...Lesotho people greeted the news with undisguised glee. Crowds jammed the main street of Maseru to cheer the soldiers. Outside the city, celebrators joyously tore down a highway sign bearing Jonathan's name. The news was just as warmly received in South Africa, which allowed three freight trains carrying vital food and gasoline to pass into Lesotho for the first time in three weeks...
Christmas in Cambridge: Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society, St Paul Church, Bow St, Harvard Square, Friday...