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Come join us as The Harvard-Yale Cantata takes on a new path! Most years, the Cantata, like the Regatta, is a competition. We’ve pitted Harvard songs and performers against Yale songs and performers. Yale leads the series, 5 to 1, but some of those victories have happened with razor-thin margins, owing to the high quality of everyone’s work. This year, the victorious Yale team, headed by music director and team captain Farrah Rothman, will oversee a departure from the competitive format. This just feels like a time we should all be working together.

Farrah (Yale ’20) and producer Tom Toce (Yale ’78) are planning a program featuring alumni performers and songs from Yale, Harvard, and lots of other Ivy and non-Ivy League colleges. Keep your eye on this space for updated information about all the special songs and performers we add to the mix.

The Harvard and Yale songwriters will include perennial Cantata favorite John Forster (“Entering Marion”), Matt Corriel (Moss Hart Award winner for Intervention), and Tom Toce (MAC Award winner for “Shalom, Santa”). Past judges (and Princeton alums) Bob Stillman (Tony Award^® nominations as a performer for Dirty Blonde and as a songwriter for Urban Cowboy) and Cheryl Davis (winner of a Writers’ Guild Award and a Kleban Award) will also contribute songs.

Special Guests:

Barbara Anselmi
Michele Brourman
Cheryl Davis
Skip Kennon
Tony Award^®nominee Bob Stillman

The Yale team will feature:
Maxwell Brown
Natalie Brown
Tarel Dennie
Serena Feniger
Jud Friedman
Julian Hornik
Jason Kisare
Jordi Bertran Ramirez
Charlie Romano
Julian Rosenblum
Tom Toce
Camille Umoff
Xavier Washington
Will Wegner

The Harvard team will feature:
Ian Chan
Natalie Choo
Matt Corriel
Ekemini Ekpo
John Forster
Chloe E.W. Levine
Allan Rich
Julia Riew
Derek Speedy