The show promises to be different from any other performance the College's youngest a cappella group has put on this year, as it will include alumni as well.
Mike Amico '07, the group's president, described Saturday's show as a "greatest hits"-of-the-Cords experience.
"The songs will have a mix among alumni and current members," Amico said.
"The novelty is that you never really hear all the group's best songs in one performance, and you never get the collaboration of the alums and current members."
Amico, who is also president of the Glee Club, explained that the show will include the most popular songs from the groups' 10 years of performing at the College.
He also said that the show, which promises to have a few surprises in store, offers a chance for the newer members to hear and perform music they may not have seen before in the groups' repertoire.
"Whenever we do things with the alumni there is just the feeling that there is a history and legacy to what we are doing now at Dartmouth," Amico said. "There is this whole other time, this whole other history, this whole other spirit. The current members are going to be blown away this weekend."
He added that the idea for this show sprung from a group of enthusiastic alumni who were eager to celebrate the groups' progress and pay a visit to their alma mater.
One alumnus who will be returning to perform this weekend, Jeff Pauker '03, said that part of the motive for the show was to encourage the body of alumni to become more involved with the current group, whether it be financial support for a CD recording or a place to stay for the Cords when they go on their winter performance tour.
Pauker also added that there is a slightly less serious reason behind the alumni enthusiasm.
"The main reason is that we still love the idea of getting up and making fools of ourselves," he said. "The added bonus is the alumni are singing some old songs. It is very nostalgic for us."
Pauker, who currently lives in Boston and will attend Harvard Law School after getting married this summer, said that he maintains connections with many of his fellow Cords.
Although he stressed that he keeps in touch with most of his friends from the group -- a former Cord will be his best man -- Pauker added that this reunion is a little different than previous ones.
"Here we're trying to do a really quality show," he said. "The founder of the group will even be singing a solo. You're actually getting everyone, from day one up to current members, involved."
One such current member, Jesse Victor '09, who cites a cappella as his favorite campus extracurricular, said that all the alumni that he has met so far, over tour and at various shows, have seemed like they maintained a strong connection to the group.
He added that this concert will be a unique opportunity to blend the old and the new traditions of the group.
Victor also said that if there is one tradition that lives on, it is that the Cords, past and present, know how to have a good time, Dartmouth style.
"We even have a pong tournament set up," he said. "The alumni have one bracket and the current members have another, and then, in the championship, they will face off."
