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Harvard Glee Club

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Tenor-bass college chorus performing choral music, including choral-orchestral works, and touring the U.S. and abroad.

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About

An ensemble of tenor and bass voices, the Harvard Glee Club is the oldest collegiate choir in the United States. Since our founding in 1858, we have sought to cultivate and sustain the art of tenor-bass—traditionally men’s—choral music through regular concerts at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre as well as performances around the world, including at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Disney Concert Hall in LA, and the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria, the Duomo di Firenze in Italy, and the American Cathedral in Paris, France. Keeping with this tradition, HGC’s upcoming international tour will take the group across Western Europe, with historic performances in London, Paris, Milan, Florence, Rome, Munich, and Lisbon.

How to join

  • Audition — You perform for the group, often with a callback round.

Details

Status
Recognized
Members
70 members
Dues
No dues required

What they do

  • Leadership and arts management opportunities
  • Glee Club Lite, a subset that sings pop, jazz, and folk a cappella
  • Regular concerts at Sanders Theatre and international tours
  • Subsidized voice lessons for members
  • International and domestic tours
  • Tour to the American South
  • Harvard–Princeton and Harvard–Yale Football Concerts
  • Christmas concerts with the Radcliffe Choral Society

Mission, in their words

To cultivate and sustain the art of tenor-bass choral music through regular concerts and performances around the world.

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