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...know perhaps better than anyone how much she is capable of and how successful she will undoubtedly be,” says close friend and blockmate J. Jack Cutmore-Scott ’10, also an actor and OFA award recipient. “She brings a level of professionalism to both rehearsals and performances that is uncommon in student theatre...
...official outlook, to be fair, does mention “late-night talks and dinner-table debates” as an important element of undergraduate life. Presumably, the collegiality present in these informal interactions could drive education at the College. However, to raise student collegiality to the level of the lecture hall would come precariously close to making academics not “whatever we choose it to be” and instead a matter of a common search for understanding—one that can’t be left at the exit of the classroom. This...
...elevated all three groups to a level of national recognition that I don’t think any of them really had,” says Adam M. Gann ’12, the Glee Club Historian. “Jim’s legacy, the thing that Jim is particularly good at, is making the three different sounds—Men’s, Women’s and Mixed—sound particularly good, whereas most conductors will only have experience with one or two of those types,” says Stacey R. Hanson...
...taxes his students, pushing for a level of excellence that some professional choirs never attain. In 2003, for a celebration of Marvin’s 25th year in his position, the choruses sang Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis.” The performance required an unprecedented amount of dedication, but elicited an effusive wave of praise from its audience. It received a glowing review from the Boston Globe: “Beethoven’s bursts of scurrying fast-tempo polyphony were as sure, swift, and unimpeded as mere human agency could make them...
Marvin has both perpetuated and altered the rich history of the Holden Choirs in his time here. Widely credited with the creation of the Pan-Holden community, and critically acclaimed for his unparalleled ability to bring the three distinct choruses to an equal skill level, Marvin has technical achievements and community-wide accomplishments sufficient to satisfy anyone’s criteria for a fulfilling career. Still, he doesn’t consider any of these accomplishments to be his greatest achievement—or his motivation for staying in the same position for 32 years...