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A cappella groups seek charter to gain funding

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If A Cappella Etc. is granted charter, groups can apply for F-Board funds....

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Bill Wilt, HC, '63

posted 12/28/08 @ 12:47 AM EST

While instrumentless singing is OK, at least when the groups don't drift too far north or too far south, I think it's unfair to disorganized musicians, whether from Bremen Town or not.

Perhaps more virtual (at least) performances, or "distance performances" with the students at Berklee College of Music, might stir up more interest and revenues. After all, the Fitchburg line passes right through (or at the edge of, at least) the campus.

Bill Wilt, HC, '63

posted 12/28/08 @ 12:56 AM EST

Originally posted by

Bill Wilt, HC, '63

While instrumentless singing is OK, at least when the groups don't drift too far north or too far south, I think it's unfair to disorganized musicians, whether from Bremen Town or not.

Perhaps more virtual (at least) performances, or "distance performances" with the students at Berklee College of Music, might stir up more interest and revenues. After all, the Fitchburg line passes right through (or at the edge of, at least) the campus.


(I forgot to mention the Society for the Prevention of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America--SPBSQA--who seem to have done reasonably well in finding founts of funding. Or maybe it's "Promotion". But whenever I hear that Alice, with a neck like a giraffe (long and spotted), is going upstairs to take a bath, and, oh my goodness, oh my soul, there goes Alice down the [drain]hole, I'm reminded of all the toddlers were were traumatized by the song and evermore refused to take a bath at bedtime.

And thus why there has been a stealth movement to form PTSDSC, or Parents of Traumatized Scions Distressed by SPBSQA Concerts

Warren B. '95

posted 12/30/08 @ 1:00 PM EST

What happened to the chartered club Bands of Brandeis (BOB)? The whole "duality of purpose" issue becomes moot when there's an umbrella group for _every_ band. I'm an a-cappella vet myself, but I don't like it when small a-cap groups, which are essentially bands, put themselves in a separate cubby-hole from other bands.

andy

posted 1/08/09 @ 12:00 AM EST

the university should fund struggling departments like classics and german, not clubs that provoke exclusives
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