Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sixty members of the Glee Club will fly Washington, D.C. next month to sing President Kennedy at the Statler Hotel...
...little education did for me what a reform school, Sing Sing, a more recent 25 to 50 year sentence, and all the punishment this list implies failed to do. I am still a convict, but I am no longer a criminal. My faith in education is not based simply on its rehabilitation effect on me. I have watched its effect on others--not many I will admit, because few prisoners have the desire to learn, encouragement is scarce, and facilities are poor. But of those who do improve their education, none return. If the proponents of punishment are sincere...
...accomplish it by dictating repertoire or purging those who opposed him. "Doc," as he soon came to be called, felt college men were intelligent enough to have good judgement but had taste plastic enough to be molded. He first improved the quality of the Club's singing, and then persuaded them to try some classical pieces in rehearsal. The first, Mendelssohn's The Huntsman's Farewell, appealed to them so strongly that they agreed to sing it in St. Louis in 1915 before a surprised audience that applauded enthusiastically...
...podium, evoking the response he wanted rather by an expressive face and pair of hands than by the discursiveness he often condemned in conductors. Davison always believed that music could speak for itself and that explanation of contrapuntal technique or rhapsodizing on Schubert only frustrated that desire to sing which is natural to a well-trained chorus...
...Glee Club was and immediate sensation, for the discovery that college boys could sing refined music so spiritedly mystified and delighted America. The French government invited them for a summer tour in 1921, and crowds packed Symphony Hall several times a year to hear them. A reviewer from the New York Herald Tribune babbled gleefully that the group had "sung things calculated to cause a fellow to run his eyes, hold down his head sidewise and kick to get something out of his ears." They sang with Fritz Kreisler, Pablo Casals and performed Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex at the Metropolitan...