1965 Tarrytown New York Hackley School Glee Club & Octet Keating Vinyl LP Record

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1965 Tarrytown New York Hackley School Glee Club & Octet Keating Vinyl LP Record
Vinyl / Jacket Grade per Goldmine Standard: VG / VG
With this album, the Hackley Glee Club and Octet is proud to re-establish a tradition which began some fifteen years ago, but which has been broken since 1963. To be sure, choral singing has occupied a distinguished place in the Hackley curriculum since the well-known American Impressionist composer, Charles T. Griffes, was made music master here from 1908 to his death in 1920; but the custom of recording this choral activity for posterity dates only from the early 50’s, and most of those early records are now unavailable. Now, adding to the big-selling albums of I960, 1962 and 1963, Hackley School presents with much pleasure the Glee Club and Octet Plus Four, 1966 edition. After Mr. Griffes’ death, the Hackley Choir languished until the appointment in 1945 of Gabriel Fontrier, whose greatest contribution to the Choir was a new chorale, which has become Hackley’s cherished Alma Mater, now a regular feature of all Hackley record albums. Mr. Fontrier’s successor, Robert Kee, added a new dimension by including 2 or 3 concerts with neighbouring girls’ schools in the year’s activities. The greatest single influence on Hackley’s music, however, was the dynamic and brilliant direction of Warren Hunke, who was Director of Music from 1949 to 1963. He expanded the choir from 22 boys in 1949 to a full-fledged concert chorus of up to 60 voices, and he was responsible for introducing the now-famous Hackley Octet, patterned after the Octet of Williams College, where he had been Glee Club President. Former members of this Golden Age of Hackley singing have distinguished themselves in singing organizations at more than 40 universities throughout the Eastern United States, including Amherst, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Williams. The present season has been a major success in many' ways. In 1965 the Glee Club sang in 3 concerts. Now, under their new director, Roderic Keating, the 1966 schedule consisted of 7 concerts, including four with girls’ schools, each of which was followed by a joint dance. The season opened on February' 25 at Rye Country Day School, and on March 11, the Glee Club travelled to Summit, N.J. for a concert with Kent Place School. Other events on the calendar included ioint concerts with Lenox School, New York City, and St. Mary’s School, Peekskill, during April (both at Hackley) and, on April 24, the Second Annual Independent Schools Concert in Woolsey Hall, New Haven, Conn., in which we shared the honours with five other New England schools, and joined with them for two concerted numbers under the baton of Marshall Bartholomew, former Yale Glee Club director. The highlight of the Lenox concert was a joint rendition of ' How lovely is Thy dwelling place” (from Brahms’ 'German Requiem”), conducted by' Ethel Orpen of Lenox; and we put forward the modest claim that our appearance in New Haven was a Connecticut ''first1' for the Hackley' Glee Club. The Octet has been a perennial hit at its performances over the years in Con- necticut and other New England states, but this was, we believe, the first time that the whole Glee Club had received an invitation to sing in the Nutmeg State. It was about this time of the year that, encouraged by the response to our performances, we announced our intention to revive the annual record, relying on receipts from the two Spring concerts on May 7 and 14 to enable us to cover the resultant expenses. Our enthusiasm was not disappointed, as the attendance at these concerts was most gratifying — and the result lies in your hands! These concerts featured a novelty specially prepared for the occasion — an arrangement by Mr. Keating of a medley of tunes from the Broadway sell-out "Hello, Dolly!”, which was such a hit that it had to be encored. The effect of the piece was enhanced by the fact that the boys sang it entirely from memory — just as they had sung every' other number'throughout their arduous concert schedule. The taping of this and the other numbers on the album was done during the week following the final concert, in Goodhue Hall, while the sweet music of the Saturday' night s applause still filled our ears! The re-formation of the Hackley' Octet was another important element of the 1966 season. Unlike the Glee Club, which lost a few members through overloaded schedules in the early Fall, the Octet spread a little to become the Octet Plus Four, an arrangement which afforded us better security against illness and the pressure of senior-year commitments, as well as giving the group a richer quality of sound than is normally' available when only' two are on a part. The group made its debut at the tea following the St. Paul’s football game on October 30, 1965, and scored instant hits in their more than a dozen succeeding appearances with their versions of Weill's "The Trouble with Women” and Burton Lane’s "The Begat.” On this recording we have been able to include almost all the music sung in this busy year; the exceptions are the various joint numbers we shared with the girls, and some early pieces from the Octet’s repertoire which did not stand the test of repeated performances as well as the numbers presented here. We have continued to combine sacred with secular, and ancient with modern, so that those boys, who on first joining the Glee Club could perhaps scarcely be persuaded to sing a single note, will leave Hackley with an increased awareness of the depth and range of choral music, as well as a sure conviction that singing is fun! For those boys who show real talent and ability, their work here will ensure them a firm grounding for their future service to glee dubs and choirs at college and in all their succeeding years. PROGRAM Side 1 THE GLEE CLUB Let Us Now Praise Famous Men ................................ Vaughan Williams Ave Maria ___________........................................................... Arcadelt The Creation ....................................................... Willy Richter Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones ............................ 17th cent., arr. Davison Ay Luchka (Bohemian Marching Song) .......................... arr. Bartholomew Kalinka (Russian Folk Song) .. _____.............................. arr. Mickiewicz (Larry Stewart, tenor) As Off to the South ard ^Ve Go .................................. arr. Bartholomew Little Innocent Lamb .........................................arr. Bartholomew............... (Peter Lightfoot, bass; George Mokray, Eric Jordan, tenors) Alma Mater .......................................................... G. Fontrier Side 2 THE GLEE CLUB Medley from 'Helio, Dolly!' Herman, arr. Keating Elegance; Dancing; It Only Takes a Moment; So Long, Dearie, Hello, Dolly! THE HACKLEY OCTET PLUS FOUR My Comrades (Theme)___________________________________________Yale Song Book George Jones (new lyrics by Roderic Keating) ____________________Yale Song Book (Nick Roe, tenor) The Begat _________________________Burton Lane Pore Jud is Dead (from 'Oklahoma!”)______________________ Rodgers-Hammerstein (Bill Greenberg, bass) The Trouble With Women (from “One Touch of Venus”) ...............Weill-Nash (Jim Holden, tenor; Jared Blum, Jeff Rachlin, Bill Greenberg, Bob Pearson, basses) Arrangements and accompaniments by Roderic Keating, except where noted RODERIC KEATING, B.A.. Mus.M., A.R.C.O., A.R.C.M., came to Hackley after three years reading music at Cambridge University in England, and two years of graduate study leading to the Master's degree at the Yale School of Music, where he was a Ford International Fellow and Fulbright Scholar. This was the first time one of these Fellow- ships (for Europeans to study in the United States) had been awarded to a musician. Mr. Keating also studied singing at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and languages at Vienna University and the British Institute of Florence. He has a distinguished record as a singer, having appeared as a soloist in England, West Germany and South America as well as in many parts of the United States. At Hackley he directed the annual Christmas Vesper Service, coached soccer and taught Lower School French, in addition to his work as director, arranger and accompanist for the Glee Club and Octet. He is now going on to take up the post of Assistant Director of the Opera Workshop at the University of Texas in Austin, Tex. GLEE CLUB Tenor 1 E. Chapman '69 S. Henderson '69 E. Jordan '66 G. Mokray '68 B. Roberts ’67 J. Saunders ’66 L. Stewart ’68 Tenor 2 B. Cohen “67 R. Greene ’67 J. Holden ’66 K. McGraime '68 D. McLaughlin ’67 D. Moore '66 N. Roe ’66 J. Sutter ’67 R. Wareham '66 Bass 1 J. Blum '66 H. Burrows ’67 W. Greenberg ‘66 J. Guiler ’67 M. Hoffman '67 J. Kennedy '61 F. Kruger '69 G. Lambert ’66 A. Landauer 66 J. Rachlin ’67 Bass 2 F. Garland '69 D. Hessey '68 T. Hord ’67 R. Kaplan ’68 P. Lightfoot '68 H. Nagler '67 R. Pearson ’66 P. Rockwood '66 N. Selsey '66 V. Sinatra ’68 M. Schwartz '67 B. Yankiver ’67 OCTET PLUS FOUR Mr. Keating E. Jordan B. Roberts J. Holden N. Roe R. Wareham J. Blum W. Greenberg J. Rachlin H. Nagler R. Pearson B. Yankiver OFFICERS FOR 1965-66: Raymond Wareham ’66, President; Alan Landauer '66, Concert Manager. Mr. Donald G. Butt of the faculty served as accompanist for the final two concerts. OFFICERS FOR 1966-67: Jeffrey Rachlin '67, President; Daniel McLaughlin ’67, Concert Manager.








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