Give Me a D...hmmmmm
Reuning classes are ever on the lookout for a unique gift to the College that transcends dollars and cents. The Class of 1945 may just have struck the right note: The Dartmouth 21stCentury Song Book.
The idea behind this project isn't just to publish a new version of the old songs that stir undergraduate and alumni breasts. For their 50th Reunion next year the '4sers are seeking as many good, new, previously unpublished Dartmouthoriented songs as they can discover in a competition open to all. The committee managing this contest is chaired by Bob Paulson '45, who says entries may fall into any of four categories: • original Dartmouth songs with lyrics in 1990s English, including entries proposed as an alma mater for the twenty-first century;
• new songs about northern New England and the Hanover Plain set to the writings of poets and authors with a Dartmouth connection, from Robert Frost onwards;
• "pop" songs in the style of folk, jazz, country, rap, bluegrass about the College since it went coed two decades ago;
• and new arrangements for mixed choruses of contemporary Dartmouth songs.
There will be cash prizes for winners and runners-up in each category. And while the Class of '45 is providing the seed money and leadership and energy for the project, judges will include members of the music faculty and a crosssection of alumni from 1945 to the present. The finished book, which clearly represents a significant updating of Paul Zeller's 1950-vintage Dartmouth Song Book, will go on sale beginning at Commencement of 1995.
For details about deadlines and for an entry blank, contact Bob Paulson by phone, fax, or mail at AVP Communications, PO Box 1356, 15 Kay Street, Westborough, MA 01581; phone or fax (508) 366-4694.
What sings the Chamber Singers?
