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Yale will sing folk and college songs and a group of English glees and madrigals. The Crimson program includes choruses from Cimarosa's opera, "if Matrimonio Segreto," and a portion of Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex." Both groups will jointly sing the finale choruses from "The Beggar's Opera" and the alma maters of each school...
...Yale Glee Club will sing its usual famous numbers folk and college songs at the annual Harvard-Yale concert in Sanders Theate. Harvard will sing choruses from Cimaress's opera, if Matrimonio Segreto, a portion of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, and college songs...
Yale's ability to sing college songs is well known; but while Harvard is not famous to its renditions of Segreto or Rex, the Harvard Glee Club is known for its ability to render these renditions in a manner becoming to the world's better choral groups...
...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...
...noise, regular jazz and bop houses are supplemented tonight by weekly Second Avenue jam sessions at the Stuyvesant Casino, 9th St., and the Central Plaza, 6th; last week and fairly regularly Bill Davison, Rex Stewart, George Wettling, Wellman Braud, and Joe Sullivan graced the former, while Hot Lips Page, Willie the Lion Smith, Big Chief Moore, and Benny Morion livened up the latter...