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...people sing at Harvard, performing classical pieces, a capella songs, gospel numbers, and show tunes. Although few students decide to devote their lives to music, Ryan wants the challenge of professional singing and songwriting. After years of writing and performing, most recently with Wild Women and Cinnamon, Ryan has concluded that she will never end up "working in front of a computer screen." She accepts her musical "calling" with a conviction that reflects her childhood, her life at Harvard and her involvement in Wild Women and Cinnamon...
...career took shape in ninth grade, "when I started playing guitar much against my will. I wrote my first song six weeks later." Although Ryan remained bashful about performing her songs and did not even like folk music ("I was a rock chick," she explains), she felt compelled to sing them--"it needed to be done...
When two of the three group members graduate in June, Ryan will keep singing with a local a capella gospel septet, Goddess Gospel, and she plans to pursue a performing career in Boston and eventually New York. But Ryan hopes the group will stay together. "I love Wild Women and Cinnamon. I'm so happy to have these wonderful women to sing with." As Garber says, "It's neat that we can do so much because technically, we're all altos...
Crooning the usual mellow melodies--"Redemption Song," by Bob Marley, "Spanish Caravan," by the Doors and "Ziggy Stardust," by David Bowie--many of the participants gathered around guitarists and a flutist for a sing-a-long...
This was only to be expected given the history of risk-free disruptions over the last several years. From Dartmouth to Stanford, the typical sit-in scenario has run something like this: Angry students occupy some portion of university property, issue a list of nonnegotiable "demands," sing chants and leave in time for the next day's lectures. Spineless administrators have played their part too, often by making concessions or refusing to punish protestors for breaking the rules...