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...basis for social organization in a large and difficult community, a way for a man to find, test, and strengthen himself, to become an effective member of society, to make some close friends. The CRIMSON is good for this. So--I am obliged to say--are the varsity sports, Glee Club, Band, WHRB, any strong dramatic group, any busy committee, or scores of other groups. The point is to get moving with one such and the CRIMSON is especially good in its own ways...
...loves luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect for older people. Children nowadays are tyrants. They no longer rise when their elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers." The author, Mrs. Purtell points out with undisguised glee, is Socrates, and the time some 2,400 years...
...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...
This difficulty in finding a range of expression grows all the more because modern music finds the chorus little suited to its techniques and styles. The glee club is denied a vital place in the emerging music of its own day--and it must therefore fight to make that of the past more than nostalgia...