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| [{{::quartet.png?400 |Portrait of the Musical Clubs, which included quartets and string groups. From //The Trinity Tripod//, 1906-04-10}}] | [{{::quartet.png?400 |Portrait of the Musical Clubs, which included quartets and string groups. From //The Trinity Tripod//, 1906-04-10}}] |
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| Numerous quartets, or four-person singing groups, have been formed by Trinity students over the years, though the pinnacle of their efflorescence occurred in 1887, beginning a brief “Golden Age” for Trinity’s Glee Club. It was during this academic year that the Glee Club grew significantly and had such success that several offshoots proliferated from its ranks as a result. A Glee Club quartet, as well as quartets associated with five different [[fraternities|fraternities]] and the three upper classes were formed at that time. | Numerous quartets, or four-person singing groups, have been formed by Trinity students over the years, though the pinnacle of their efflorescence occurred in 1887, beginning a brief “Golden Age” for Trinity’s [[glee_club|Glee Club]]. It was during this academic year that the Glee Club grew significantly and had such success that several offshoots proliferated from its ranks as a result. A Glee Club quartet, as well as quartets associated with five different [[fraternities|fraternities]] and the three upper classes were formed at that time. |
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| In an issue of //[[tablet|The Trinity Tablet]]// from 1882, a few years before the musical culture of the campus would come to flourish, a student complained about the dearth of quartets at Trinity, despite a wealth of talent among students. “[Q]uartettes,” he wrote, “can be formed which would afford much pleasure and profit to the members thereof, and which would be a credit to the college in general. At other colleges quartettes are formed, which are not only heard and enjoyed within college limits, but which are in demand elsewhere as social attraction, and why should not Trinity emulate their example?” | In an issue of //[[tablet|The Trinity Tablet]]// from 1882, a few years before the musical culture of the campus would come to flourish, a student complained about the dearth of quartets at Trinity, despite a wealth of talent among students. “[Q]uartettes,” he wrote, “can be formed which would afford much pleasure and profit to the members thereof, and which would be a credit to the college in general. At other colleges quartettes are formed, which are not only heard and enjoyed within college limits, but which are in demand elsewhere as social attraction, and why should not Trinity emulate their example?” |
