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...various choruses are holding auditions in Sever 11 today and all week (except Thursday) from 2-5 p.m. and today and Sunday from 7-9 p.m. After shaking your hand vigorously in the Glee Club tradition, F. John Adams will probably ask you to sing some scales and sightread something while he plays along at the piano. Prior experience and a mellifluous voice aren't necessary; some amount of musical sense is. The Glee Club only accepts men, the Choral Society women, the Collegium Musicum both. Various of these choruses will be performing in Symphony Hall (Beet-hoven...
...certainly not. Using the Bach Society Orchestra as a base, he managed to assemble many of the best instrumentalists at Harvard; for his chorus he drew heavily from the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society. It is a tribute to his musicians' intelligence and ability to sightread, and to his own assiduity and seriousness as a conductor, that they got through the music as well as they...
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