Word: sing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newly organized Vocal Club will sing "Johnny Harvard" and "Schneider's bard", the list of which was written by A. G. Mason '86. The Mandolin Club will play the Venetian Love Song". "Pizzicati", and the "Thousand and One Nights Waltz...
...University Glee Club will sing tonight in Symphony Hall, with G. W. Woodworth '24 conducting, at 8.15 o'clock. The club will be assisted by Jacques Thibaud, violinist, and Joseph Lautner '21, tenor. Tickets for the concert are on sale at the Coop and at Symphony Hall...
...club is keeping to the policy it has pursed for many years. That policy, inaugurated by Dr. Davison, is to sing the best music in the best manner. Whatever struggle there may have been at the outset to get Harvard College undergraduates to sing such music, it very soon transpired that they preferred it to any other. The club is a cross-section of the college; it has demonstrated its value not only in the college world but in the general world of music, to its influence is largely due the very great improvement in standards among college glee clubs...
...that a group of young men in college, led by an extremely able and devoted man, a member of the music department, who prefer to sing the best music and who demonstrate year by year their capacity to sing it well, who are invited to visit a foreign country and are received everywhere with acclaim, who have raised the standard of college music, whose repertoire edited by the leader has been published and sold all over the United States and even in England--why at this juncture, because the club insists on maintaining its standard, should any Harvard graduates anywhere...
...When I stand before an audience of young men and women I always feel that I can sing far better than at other times" said Miss Van Cordon. "If the audience is full of society which is only there in order to see who else has come and gloomy music critics who feel they must say fearful things about the performance in order to keep their reputation with the public, I always feel depressed. It's an up hill job. If society isn't listening and critics let it all in one ear and out the other while they listen...