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...timeless hit—and the second being a song of their choice. They nailed their notes in front of their peers and under the scrutiny of three judges: vocalist Zachary R. Rainor ’05, Veritas Records founder and President Daniel Zaccagnino ’05, and last year’s winner, Amy M. Zelcer...
Veritas already has a lot of plans for next year, but the home-field Harvard-Yale game next fall has been a focus for their aim to merge the social life at Harvard with music. Zaccagnino outlined his vision for the event as follows: “We want to create situations like the Harvard-Yale game, where people can relax on a nice fall day, listen to some bands playing live on top of a U-Haul, and enjoy a dozen kegs that Veritas provides for free...
Complaints of inadequate music opportunities at Harvard are nothing new. Zaccagnino mentions that even in the late 19th century “there was the first real musician club at Harvard—the Guitar and Mandolin Club (which later became the Instrumental Clubs). This club represented the students who were doing new things—playing non-classical music, and not studying music at the University. While the professors interested in music thought that the music these students were playing was inferior to classical music, they nevertheless recognized that these students were some of the most talented...
...Zaccagnino argued that “there have always been great resources for students concentrating in music, but the more that can be done to aid those students who are passionate about music but who do not necessarily study it, the better the chances that there will be a music ‘scene’ on campus.” He mentioned the cramped schedules of Havard undergraduates as a factor, because “no one has time to coordinate between bands and make a community. Everyone just wants to do what is best for them...
...Zaccagnino emphasizes that label executives “have no personal financial interest in the success of the bands,” because all the profits are reinvested into the label or the music scene in general, but that Veritas members have “the personal satisfaction that by coordinating these bands and putting out CDs under a brand name, we might have a chance to include music in what the student body sees as important social activities...