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Marvin said when other colleges' glee clubswent coed in the '60s, the Harvard group decidedto remain all-male to provide students with extraoptions. The Radcliffe Choral Society, which datesfrom 1898, also remained single-sex. Instead ofchanging the two groups, Marvin said a new coedgroup, the Collegium Musicum, was founded...
...music drew an enthusiastic crowd. As the audience filtered out of the Collegium Musicum and Radcliffe Choral Society concert in Sanders Theatre, the strains of Madonna, Chumbawumba and Celine Dion pounded in Annenberg. The music was great and the dancing was fast, a very un-Harvard party...
Weiss also sings with Collegium Musicum and is active in Hillel...
There is something truly magical about holiday choral music done well, and the Holden Choirs' concert last Saturday in Sanders was no exception. The Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society and Collegium Musicum joined forces to offer a beautiful and often brilliant, if surprisingly short, Christmas concert dedicated to music from the British Isles. The three groups performed separately first, followed by a joint Glee Club/RCS performance of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Mass in G Minor and concluding with all three groups singing Vaughan Williams' "God Bless the Master." Between each section, conductors Jameson Marvin and Constance DeFotis invited...
After the communal carol "O Come, All Ye Faithful," associate conductor Constance DeFotis led the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum in the "Hymn to St. Cecilia" by Benjamin Britten. This piece takes its lyrics from a W.H. Auden poem of the same title; and like the poem, the music contains surprises and irregularities, yet maintains a lyric quality. True to the refrain, "Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions/ To all musicians, appear and inspire:/ Translated Daughter, come down and startle/ Composing mortals with immortal fire," it seemed that St. Cecilia had indeed come down to bless this performance, for the Collegium Musicum...