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"I'm gonna ride on my Harley in the morning, babe," the Veritones sang yesterday to an audience in Tercentenary Theater.
But few members of the audience were wearing leather. It was Harvard. And these crooners were singing in honor of the College's 350th anniversary celebration.
Under partly cloudy skies and in front of 350th "Veritas" logos, various student musical groups entertained several hundred revelers from 2:00 to 5:30 p.m. in the "New England Bandstand Concert."
During the Radcliffe Pitches' performance, Kelly L. Parsons '87 went into the audience and dragged Thomas D. Warren '88 onto the stage. She then sang "You'd Be Surprised," revealing secrets about her "boyfriend" Warren to the spectators.
Warren had just stopped to listen for a few minutes and said that he was completely surprised when Parsons picked him out of the audience. "I felt silly," he said.
Other groups which performed were the Krokodiloes, the Din and Tonics, the Harvard Jazz Band, and the Kuumba Singers.
"The only problem was that the Opportunes were supposed to be here. They bagged at the last minute," said Noah E. Jussim '87, MC of the event.
Opportune Adrian A. Borsa '88 said that a scheduling conflict prevented their performance at 3:15 p.m., the time assigned to them by event organizers.
As a result there was an unscheduled intermission from 3:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m., during which many people left and did not return.
The concert was open to the entire College and the Cambridge community, but only several hundred students attended. Some said that they had not known about the concert until they happened to pass by and hear the music.
"I don't think anyone knew about it," April A. E. J. Tash '89 said. "A friend of mine in the jazz band said, 'Come and see us. We desperately need an audience.'"
K. Michele Walters '88 said that she, too, had not been aware of the event. "I listened to the Kroks from Sever in section, and I've been here every since," she said.
Borsa said that the organizers chose the wrong time of day to hold the concert.
"Look at it--there's about 200 people. If it was at night, there would have been 1000," he said. "It's funny that they scheduled one of the only events for the underclassmen when all the underclassmen are in classes or sports."
Mary E. McGee, assistant head tutor in the Religion Department, planned in advance to attend the concert with her two-year-old daughter Matilda. "It's her day off from her home care program," McGee said. "It was good for her, too. She loves music.
Matilda clapped and danced to the songs of the Kuumba Singer, the final performers of the concert.
When it was all over, she complained to her mother, "They're all gone."
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