The Harvard Glee Club will offer a program at Noon on Thursday the 16th of January
Suggested Donation is $20.00
Repertoire:
works by
Mendelssohn for men’s voices, Cantata from “Responsorium et Hymnus, op. 121 and Motet: Beati Mortui, op. 115
Traditional music from the Republic of Georgia
American spirituals and folk songs
Traditional Harvard School Songs
Andy Clark, conductor
“The Harvard Glee Club is America’s oldest collegiate choir, and has carried on the tradition of tenor-bass choral music since 1858. Guided by our four cardinal virtues of glee, good humor, unity, and joy, the Glee Club cultivates and sustains the art of tenor-bass choral music across centuries of tradition.
The Harvard Glee Club regularly performs at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre, and undertakes both domestic and international tours. In 2023, the Glee Club performed to sold-out crowds in venues such as the Duomo Di Firenze in Florence and St. Bartholomew the Great in London while on a seven-city, five-country tour of Europe. While in Europe, the group also gave joint performances with Milan’s renowned Coro CET, a traditional Italian tenor-bass choir, and the UniversitätsChor München in Ludwig Maximilian University’s storied concert hall, the Große Aula. Other recent tours have seen the Glee Club perform for audiences in the Dominican Republic, Korea, Japan, and Miami, Minneapolis, and elsewhere throughout the United States and world. Across our history, we have recorded with artists such as Lendoard Bernstein, published our arrangements in our own series with the Schirmer Company, and given numerous performances in venues such as Boston’s Symphony Hall, Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center, and New York’s Carnegie Hall.
While traditionally drawing on repertoire from the sacred, folk, and collegiate choral traditions of Europe and North America, the Glee Club also commissions contemporary composers representing a broad array of experiences and styles. Recent commissions include contemporary settings of three African American spirituals by composer Brendan Waddles, and other pieces by Bongani Magatyana, Molly Joyce, Karen Thomas, Morten Lauridsen, Robert Kyr, and Sir John Tavener.”
