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...wore afros and dashikis, went back and listened to music after lunch most times," Griffin says. "Those were the days of James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, even some early Aretha Franklin--straight-line black stuff and some crazy stuff, too--the Chambers Brothers and Sly and the Family Stone...
Beverly Taylor arrived at Harvard/Radcliffe as Associate Director of Choral Activities in the fall of 1978; her hiring coincided with that of Jameson Marvin, who was named Director. Responsibility for each of the Holden choruses would rest with one conductor; Bev was assigned to RCS, while Marvin was to lead the Harvard/Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and Harvard Glee Club. In addition to her duties with RCS, Bev established HRC, a now-thriving chorus of 200 voices drawn from Harvard and the larger community, which brings student musicians into contact with more experienced performers...
...understanding that Dr. Marvin became discontent with the existing structure of the choral program over time, and, three years ago, convinced Dean of Students Archie Epps to initiate changes that would bring all three Holden choruses under his directorship, ostensibly to allow him to prepare more joint works and to address a perceptual problem among a minority of RCS members - namely, that their status was lower in the eyes of incoming first-years because they were conducted by the Associate Director of Choral Activities...
...circumstances surroundig Ms. Taylor's decision to leave include much bad management on the part of the University. Her latest contract renewal process was drawn out by the offices of Director of Choral Activities Jameson Marvin and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III for over a year. During that time, Ms. Taylor's commitment didn't fail; her work for Harvard continued unabated, despite the fact that she was without a contract...
...choir-conductor relationships will also bemore flexible than they have been in the past.Rather than conducting only Glee Club andCollegium, and leaving RCS to the AssociateConductor, "We'll share the three groups on aproject by project basis--perhaps even on asemester by semester or a year by year basis,"Marvin said...