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...Glee Club will present the first in its annual series of three Yard Concerts on the steps of Widener at 7 p.m. tonight. This concert, and those that follow it on May 16 and 23 will cover most of the HGO's repertoire, including portions of both the Christmas and Spring Sanders Concerts...
...Phillips' and Leed's statement makes one wonder what the College is coming to. Dean Monro has a perfect right to say what he would like the Council to be, or what he thinks CRIMSON editorial policy should be, or what numbers he wants to hear the Glee Club sing. And, of course, the Council, the CRIMSON, and the Glee Club have an equal right to ignore him. It seems strange that the Council would complain about "meddling," since a large part of its job is to inquire, often inexpertly, into the affairs of the University...
...this is simply not true today. A '58 graduate now at the Law School participated both in the Glee Club and on the Student Council, and was not at all an "angry young commuter." Present-day commuters complain not about Dudley facilities or time spent on the MTA but about the University's policy of accepting fewer local students (which "discourages commuters"), and of Harvard's vacillation in choosing a new site for Dudley...
Choral music has been orphaned in this century. Estranged from the church, it no longer has strong institutional backing. Cut off from contemporary experimentation, it wanders among neoclassical revivals, folk song arrangements, and patriotic hymning. The program of the Choral Society and the Glee Club set high standards of taste for the moderns to match when they opened with Thomas Tallis's Lamentations of Jeremiah and Heinrich Schutz's 34th Psalm; three contemporary madrigals and Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex met them generally well, but Roger Sessions's Turn, O Libertad...
...highlight in the evening for story-starved pressmen was the appearance of a nude visitor during the intermission of the Glee Club-RCS concert in Mem Hall. Dripping wet, the man wandered in muttering "everybody's dreaming, I'm not really here." Some 'Cliffes thought it was colorful...