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...spring tour this year, the Harvard Glee Club concocted a potpourri of all the songs it used to--and still does--know. The choice of works was excellent (ranging from the 16th to the 20th centuries); and, in fact, the whole program proved a fine prolegomenon to any future tour plans...
...movie, like the Festival, is a potpourri, ranging from Louis Armstrong's Dixieland Blues to the esoteric West Coast sound of Chico Hamilton. Jimmy Guiffre does his best piece, "The Train and the River," aided by Bob Brookmeyer. Thelonious Monk crashes through "Blue Monk." Anita O'Day does two vocals in her most irresistible manner, and Dinah Washington offers "All of Me," which is a bit too much for anyone to take...
...Jencks' recent article on Church-State relations ('Congress Shall Make No Law...') provides the reader with such a potpourri of conflicting opinion that there is some danger that he may have missed the very valid point of the article...
...class by itself: An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May, a satirical potpourri of skits and improvisations...
...first recording under the leadership of Elliot Forbes '40, the Harvard Glee Club offers an interesting potpourri entitled Harvard in Song. The varied program includes something for everyone and is designed to illustrate the versatility of the Harvard Glee Club. The first side includes a collection of traditional "Harvard" songs ranging from football songs and glees to Fair Harvard itself. Side two is labeled, properly, "a short but representative concert offering, sampling the choral literature from the Fifteenth Century to the present...