All the a capella that MIT has to offer
Oct. 21st, 2002 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidSaturday night I went to GBIS (Greater Boston Invitational Songfest; though it was only MIT groups), in Kresge Auditorium. It was packed; every seat was taken, and some people had to leave when they couldn't find seats (not nearly as bad as the one last year, though, Cth and Q). I didn't get any CDs in the crush afterward, but considered some... though I'll never catch up with Y's collection of a cappella CDs (all ripped, of course).
The Logarhythms were up first, and came out in... divers(e) clothing. There was a guy in goggles, another in a fez, a third in an Asian conical sort of straw hat. Oh, and someone was wearing boxing gloves and a face guard (presumably no tooth guard, however), one guy was in a shiny chartreuse suit, and another was a cow. Yup, udder and all. They sang very well, the vocals and percussion balancing, lots of energy, and they put on a funny skit, about a spelling bee... Need I say more than "Security Cow"?
Resonance is the newest group (co-ed), the one who hosted The Bobs when they were at MIT last year. They've gotten better, but there were still some weak moments. Their dress code was greys and black.
The Cross-Products are MIT's co-ed Xian group. They came out in white pants and blue shirts (why the Israeli colors, I never figured out), and sang about their Best Friend. Technically, they did a good job with the music, but the topics.... I kept making snide comments to my friend.
The MIT/Wellesley Toons were next. I liked their music, but was dismayed by the incredibly unfunny skit they included, apparently a send-up of a current TV show I've not heard of. (They called their version Fear!, which is read "fear, factorial," of course.)
The Muses were the only all-female group, and I was pleasantly surprised at how good their music sounded. The jarring part was how many times a couple of the singers kept moving from the group to the front to the group to the front to the group to the front... poor decision, that.
Techiya is the Jewish group, and they sang mostly stuff I'd heard last year (but still liked). Of particular note: "Abraham" (to the tune of "Spiderman"), which was very topical with this week's parsha, a Hebrew version of Billy Joel's "Alexa" (sung, my friend told me, by a woman who doesn't know Hebrew, had memorized the entire thing), and a Hebrew version of "Blue Moon." They did sing other non-translated things, too.
And the last group was the Chorallaries, who were excellent. And I so should've written this up a day (or more) ago, since right now, I can't remember a single song or other identifier....
The Logarhythms were up first, and came out in... divers(e) clothing. There was a guy in goggles, another in a fez, a third in an Asian conical sort of straw hat. Oh, and someone was wearing boxing gloves and a face guard (presumably no tooth guard, however), one guy was in a shiny chartreuse suit, and another was a cow. Yup, udder and all. They sang very well, the vocals and percussion balancing, lots of energy, and they put on a funny skit, about a spelling bee... Need I say more than "Security Cow"?
Resonance is the newest group (co-ed), the one who hosted The Bobs when they were at MIT last year. They've gotten better, but there were still some weak moments. Their dress code was greys and black.
The Cross-Products are MIT's co-ed Xian group. They came out in white pants and blue shirts (why the Israeli colors, I never figured out), and sang about their Best Friend. Technically, they did a good job with the music, but the topics.... I kept making snide comments to my friend.
The MIT/Wellesley Toons were next. I liked their music, but was dismayed by the incredibly unfunny skit they included, apparently a send-up of a current TV show I've not heard of. (They called their version Fear!, which is read "fear, factorial," of course.)
The Muses were the only all-female group, and I was pleasantly surprised at how good their music sounded. The jarring part was how many times a couple of the singers kept moving from the group to the front to the group to the front to the group to the front... poor decision, that.
Techiya is the Jewish group, and they sang mostly stuff I'd heard last year (but still liked). Of particular note: "Abraham" (to the tune of "Spiderman"), which was very topical with this week's parsha, a Hebrew version of Billy Joel's "Alexa" (sung, my friend told me, by a woman who doesn't know Hebrew, had memorized the entire thing), and a Hebrew version of "Blue Moon." They did sing other non-translated things, too.
And the last group was the Chorallaries, who were excellent. And I so should've written this up a day (or more) ago, since right now, I can't remember a single song or other identifier....