Tour of the South (2017)

The 2017 Tour of the Southern States of the Virginia Glee Club took place March 3 – 8, 2017, with appearances conducted by Frank Albinder in Johnson City, Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Birmingham, Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, Jackson, Mississippi, and Atlanta, Georgia. The tour was a major highlight of the Glee Club 2016-2017 season.

Frank chronicled the tour on his tour blog.

Itinerary[]

March 3: Johnson City, TN, with the East Tennessee State University BucsWorth Men’s Choir at Munsey Memorial United Methodist Church
March 4: Chattanooga, TN, with the McCallie Men’s Chorus and Voci Virilli at McCallie School -- planned, but cancelled due to bus breakdown
March 5: Birmingham, AL, at Southside Centre for the Arts & Humanities
March 6: Mobile, AL, at Trinity Episcopal Church
March 7: Jackson, MS at Fondren Church
March 8: Jackson, MS at Mississippi State Capitol
March 10: Atlanta, GA at Morehouse College (rehearsal exchange with the Morehouse College Glee Club)

Program[]

Hanacpachap (Anonymous, 1631, ed. Oscar Escalada)
Praise ye the Name of the Lord (Nikolai Tcherepnin (1873-1945), arr. Gwynn S. Bement)
Song of Peace (Vincent Persichetti (1915–1987))
Prayer at Winter Solstice (Robert Schuneman (1934–2015))*
Summer Songs (David Davis (b. 1930))
- Love is a green girl
- Little Polly Ethylene
- A shadow's on the sundial
Ave Maria (Franz Biebl (1906–2001))
Selections by the Gleemen to be announced
Find the Cost of Freedom (Stephen Stills (b. 1945), ed. Nick Page)
Shenandoah (Appalachian folk song, arr. James Erb)*
Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen (1934–2016), arr. Ethan Sperry)
Yonder Come Day (arr. Paul John Rudoi)
Songs of the University of Virginia
- Virginia Yell Song (Linwood Lehman 2015)
- Vir-ir-gin-i-a (George Frederic Handel (1685–1759), arr. Donald Loach)
- The Cavalier Song (Fulton Lewis, Jr. (1903–1966), arr. Daniel Hine)
- Virginia, Hail, All Hail (John A. Morrow '21 (1883–1949), arr. Donald MacInnis, rev. Donald Loach)
- The Good Old Song (Traditional)

Media[]

Adam Ganucheau on Twitter: "The University of Virginia Glee Club is singing beautifully on Senate floor. Sen. Hob Bryan, notorious UVA grad, is beside himself. #msleg"