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...36th year in a row (has it been that long?), Harvard’s Kuumba Singers will present its annual holiday concert, “We Sing Praises.” The event is free, but if past years are any indication, they’ll sell out fast...
DIED. Robert McFerrin, 85, baritone who in 1955 became the first black man to sing in the New York Metropolitan Opera's company; in St. Louis, Mo. Forbidden as a youth by his Baptist-preacher father from singing anything but gospel, McFerrin--later followed into music by his son Bobby (Don't Worry, Be Happy)--also dubbed the sung vocals for Sidney Poitier's Porgy in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess...
...DIED. Robert McFerrin, 85, baritone who in 1955 became the first black man to sing in the New York Metropolitan Opera's company; in St. Louis, Missouri. Forbidden as a youth by his Baptist-preacher father from singing anything but gospel, McFerrin-later followed into music by his son Bobby (Don't Worry, Be Happy)-also dubbed the sung vocals for Sidney Poitier's Porgy in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess. Numbers 1 in 5 Number of British adults who regularly throw coins into wishing wells and fountains $5.9 million Amount they throw into wells every year...
...festivities were scheduled to begin yesterday with greeting remarks from one of HRG&SP’s founding fathers, Wayne C. Paton ’56, and faculty advisor and alum, Dean Benedict H. Gross ’71. It will also offer film screenings, interactive events like a sing-along and orchestra play along, various workshops, a “Founders’ Story Session” to hear founding members set the record straight about the organization’s past, and a Victorian ball.Many alumni were enthusiastic to hear about the organization’s 50th anniversary...
...world's most successful military alliance. The scripts have been largely written and surprises are unlikely. But as Christoph Bertram, the dean of German security experts, recently noted, the affair will be "like a Christmas service for agnostics, who for most of the year do not pray together or sing from the same hymnbook." The question of what the North Atlantic Treaty Organization should do and become has been a subject of often deep disagreement since the Warsaw Pact dissolved in 1991. Here's a snapshot of where the alliance stands today...