Down with A Capella
Posted on October 29th, 2007 in Uncategorized | 15 Comments »
IvyGate is having a competition to determine the worst a capella group in the Ivy League.
One is tempted to answer all of them….
Given that Harvard apparently has too many student groups, and that no one likes a capella groups except for the people who are in them…perhaps there’s a natural solution here?
15 Responses
10/29/2007 9:38 am
Oh THAT IS HARSH
I went to Brown in the 80s and I did not mind the a-capella group there except they always sang California dreamin, every time they performed. I wonder if they still do?
ebr
10/29/2007 11:59 am
there are some good a capella groups out there; on the other hand, its very interesting to ponder the antipathy you, like so many, have toward them. is it the old fashioned song stylings? is it the lack of a R&R beat? is it that they seem inherently gay? or is it that they’re just too sincere and unironic?
10/29/2007 1:58 pm
when i see an an capella group i feel tarred with gayness
10/29/2007 2:55 pm
maybe you should leave that big feather boa at home then
10/29/2007 3:15 pm
Long live the Persuasions.
But that name-is that gay code?
10/29/2007 3:46 pm
Richard, it’s possible that you just hate barbershop or doo wop music. But that’s not the compleet definition of “a capella” singing. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about it:
A Cappella (Italian: âin the church styleâ) music is vocal music or singing without instrumental accompaniment, or a piece intended to be performed in this way. A cappella was originally intended to differentiate between Renaissance polyphony and Baroque concertato style. In the 19th century a renewed interest in Renaissance polyphony coupled with an ignorance of the fact that vocal parts were often doubled by instrumentalists led to the term coming to mean unaccompanied vocal music.[1] In modern usage, a cappella often refers to an all-vocal performance of any style, including barbershop, doo wop, and modern pop/rock.
10/29/2007 11:25 pm
Ok, I take that back. Sorry for that, a little too mean. Trying to be more positive these days…a capella maybe isn’t the worst thing in the entire world, I’m reasonably somewhat pretty certain…
10/30/2007 9:27 am
Squatting Whatever: you’re a very poor stand-in for SE. he NEVER gets deleted!
10/30/2007 10:16 am
Hey, I didn’t delete him, he deleted himself.
10/30/2007 10:39 am
No way! How do you do that?
10/30/2007 1:14 pm
9:27, you’re totally anonymous and therefore rather meaningless… That’s much worse. And obviously my screen name was a little gamesmanship with SE since I - initially - found his name a little arrogant and ridiculous. I’ve come to really respect him, but I like to be consistent with my comments, so the name stays.
And I deleted myself because I thought I was being a little meaner than I should have been about these a capella groups. I now realize that it’s a disease, and we shouldn’t insult the victims unnecessarily.
4/4/2024 12:21 am
мм кто бы мог подумать …
4/8/2024 3:02 pm
hmm. informative ))
4/24/2009 5:25 am
mm. 10x
4/25/2009 7:14 am
hmm… thanks