<p>What sorts of choirs are there at Harvard and how does one get involved? I’ve always been in my school and church choir and would love to continue this next year.</p>
<p>I’ve also heard that all the choirs are audition-based. I can more than carry a tune and can read music, but I’m no choral superstar. Would I still be able to participate?</p>
<p>Thanks for all the help!</p>
<p>See:
[Student</a> Organization List § Office of Student Life](<a href=“http://osl.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k65178&pageid=icb.page305611]Student”>http://osl.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k65178&pageid=icb.page305611)
[The</a> Holden Choirs at Harvard University](<a href=“http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~holchoir/]The”>http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~holchoir/)
[UCHOIR[/url</a>]
[url=<a href=“http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~rcs/]Radcliffe”>http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~rcs/]Radcliffe</a> Choral Society | the premier women’s chorus of Harvard University](<a href=“HarvardKey - Harvard University Authentication Service”>http://uchoir.harvard.edu/)
[Harvard</a> Glee Club |](<a href=“http://www.harvardgleeclub.org/]Harvard”>http://www.harvardgleeclub.org/)</p>
<p>There are about a billion singing groups here! Are you interested in a cappella? There are a gazillion of those alone! </p>
<p>Many signing groups are competitive to get into, but many are not. There’s a whole range of levels of professionalism, from extremely time-intensive and generally demanding to very casual and only for fun. Not sure if this is up your alley, but there’s a showtunes group called the Noteables that actually doesn’t even require auditions! That’s just the one that I know off the top of my very non-musical head; there are surely others.</p>
<p>Feel free to PM me if you have other questions. I don’t know a lot about music here, but I could likely find out answers to specific questions (:</p>
<p>At one time or another during my son’s time at Harvard he was in the Harvard Glee Club (one of the Holden choirs - the all male one); and the Glee Club’s a cappella subset (Glee Club Lite); the Dunster House Opera; the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta group and The Krokodilos (Harvard’s oldest a cappella group). Every year he was in the Memorial Church Choir and his final three years included the Church Choir’s subset, the Choral Fellows. (The Church choir performs on Sundays and the Choral Fellows perform Monday through Friday mornings.) All of these groups are by audition. The Krocodilos are unquestionably the hardest group to join. The ability to read music is a necessity for the Choral Fellows, not quite as much for the Church Choir. In my son’s experience, many of the Glee Club members could not read music.</p>
<p>There are choirs and music groups for all abilities and interests. One nice thing about the Church Choir is that it is a paid position (the bad news is, of course, that you have to get up Sunday morning). My son used that as a motivator to schedule early classes so he would have the afternoons for study.</p>
<p>Thank you guys so much!</p>
<p>It’s nice to know the range of opportunities out there</p>
<p>I take it you mean the Kroks are the hardest group to join out of the ones he joined.</p>
<p>In any given year, there are a lot more female auditionees per spot in Harvard’s selective groups than male auditionees.</p>