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Which brings my second suggestion: that the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society perform and record with the Boston Symphony Orchestra excerpts from these Easter poems, the two Grail scenes, in Act I and Act III of Parisfal, and the Prologue to Meflstofele, which is quite worthy of its two great companions...
Where She Came From. "Miss Elizabeth" Chisholm remembers Leontyne in those days as the girl with the "high-glee eyes" who was forever singing. She took to accompanying Leontyne at the piano, and later she occasionally had her perform at informal musicales. Between Leontyne and the Chisholms-who eventually helped send her to the Juilliard...
Because she wanted to help her Brother George through college, she signed up for a teacher's training course (he later went through South Carolina State on a full athletic scholarship). But she kept on singing-in the glee club, the choir, the dormitory shower. Even as a freshman she had what a friend remembers as "a star quality." Once she was stopped by hazing upperclassmen and ordered to sing: "Well, she just sang-the song was Because-and when she stopped, everyone just stood there. Her voice took them so much by surprise they stopped hazing...
Sixty members of the Glee Club will fly Washington, D.C. next month to sing President Kennedy at the Statler Hotel...
During his years with the Glee Club, Davison began arranging, teaching and writing and in 1934 retired from his conducting duties to devote his full time to this work. Although he believed that mixed voices were infinitely preferable to a men's chorus, he nonetheless "tortured" the means "to justify the end" and made over 300 arrangements for men's voices that gave them access to a much wider repertoire. His "Concord Series" song books have had unparalleled usage in schools and homes both here and abroad. The number of distinguished musicians who trained at Harvard and thus felt...