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...Gregg Riley of Princeton, Bill Taylor of Harvard and Tom Haggerty of Columbia, the League's top runner and scorer, would fill out the mythical Ivy Lackfield. On the line would be ends Dave Usher of Dartmouth and Bob Boyda of Harvard; tackles Darwin Wile of Harvard and Bob Asack of Columbia; guards Bill Swinford of Harvard and Bill Tragakis of Dartmouth; and center Leo Black of Columbia...
Other Crimson runners to finish in scoring positions were Ed Meehan at fourth, Bob Knapp at fifth, and Gregg Baldwin in ninth. Meehan stayed up with Hamlin and Mullin until the four-mile mark, where an attack of dry heaves sidelined him for about 30 seconds...
...astonished the audience was the singers' ability to negotiate Schonberg's dissonances and steep intervals with a familiarity that made the composer seem almost as accessible as the Gemutlichkeitladen German romantics. Sinewy and biting, the music called for an unerring sense of rhythm and pitch, and the Gregg Smith Singers responded on cue like a well-oiled machine. Conductor Smith had arranged his twelve male and 13 female singers cannily, spreading them across the entire width of the stage in an arc that gave breadth and transparency to the group sound. It was, said a delighted local critic...
Inherent Logic. The Gregg Smith Singers have a fast-growing reputation in Europe, but they are virtually unknown in the U.S. Chicago-born Conductor Smith, 30, who "wanted to be a choir leader for as long as I can remember," established the group at the Los Angeles Japanese Methodist Church in 1955. At full strength it now numbers nearly 60 singers-white, Negro, Japanese, Hawaiian and Chinese. Explains pert, pony-tailed Soprano Uta Shimotskuka, 23: "With a good group like this, it was easy to attract many young singers who heard that we preferred Orlando di Lasso, Palestrina and also...
...appearance at the Brussels World Fair in 1958. Although it has always labored under a deficit, times are getting better: Stravinsky heard the singers in Los Angeles in 1959, was so impressed that he conducted them in his Les Noces and Symphony of Psalms. Columbia will soon issue a Gregg Smith album. As the group's popularity grows, Conductor Smith thinks it will accomplish his most cherished ambition: to popularize modern music through "the inherent logic of the human voice...