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...first fifty years of its life the glee club was an adjunct of the banjo and mandolin clubs. Professional coaches were hired to teach members to sing the "Stein Song" and "Down by the Stream Where I First Met Rebecca" and similar pieces...
...Strange (Mitch Miller's Orchestra and Chorus; Columbia). A pleasant, exotic treatment played in unison by distant horns while a harpsichord tinkles like a mandolin...
...writes in his barn. Afternoons are spent puttering about the garden and feeding a pet chipmunk. Since the nearest neighbor is half a mile away, the professor pretty much limits his interpersonal relations to his wife, with whom he spends the evenings studying a new enthusiasm, the mandolin...
...this time the Club threw aside the pleasant but essentially conventional and commonplace music which college glee clubs have always sung, divorced itself from the banjo and mandolin clubs of the College, and undertook the experiment of singing first-rate music, classical and modern. With Dr. Davison presentation of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, world premiere the Club suddenly came into prominence as one of America's outstanding men's choruses...
During that first season it shared playing time with the Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, which had combined under one management, and the Glee Club, all sitting in the same section...