The 2010 "Songs of Virginia" Tour of the Northeast of the Virginia Glee Club, Frank Albinder conducting, was the culmination of the 2009-2010 season. The tour took the Club to destinations in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York, Washington DC, Virginia, and Michigan. The tour, held March 5 through March 13, 2010, concluded with a three-Glee Club concert, "Celebrating 440 Years of Song", with Harvard, Michigan and Virginia glee clubs singing in honor of the University of Michigan Glee Club's 150th year, the 150th year of the Harvard Glee Club, the retirement at the end of the 2009-2010 season of longtime Harvard Glee Club director Jameson Marvin, and the new president of the University of Virginia, University of Michigan provost Teresa Sullivan.[1]
Frank Albinder covered the tour on his tour blog.
Performances[]
Date | Venue | Guests |
March 5, 2010 | Central Bucks West High School, Doylestown, PA | Central Bucks West High School Men's Glee Club |
March 7, 2010 | Smith College, Northampton, MA | Smith College Glee Club |
March 8, 2010 | Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA |
Wellesley College Choir |
March 9, 2010 | Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York, NY | |
March 10, 2010 | New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, Washington, DC | |
March 11, 2010 | Williamsburg Presbyterian Church, Williamsburg, VA | |
March 12, 2010 | St. John's Episcopal Church, Roanoke, VA | Oriana Singers, Jeffrey Sandborg |
March 13, 2010 | St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church, Ann Arbor, MI | University of Michigan Glee Club Harvard Glee Club |
Repertoire[]
The Glee Club performed the Fauré Requiem at Smith College. For their solo performances, repertoire was selected from the following:
- Alle, psallite cum luya (Montpellier Codex 13th century)
- I Have Had Singing (Ron Jeffers (b. 1943))
- Gloria (Robert Young (b. 1923))
- Avadim Hayinu (Judith Shatin (b. 1949))
- The Pasture (Frostiana) (Randall Thompson (1899-1984))
- Promised Land (arr. Michael Richardson)
- Ave Maria (Angelus Domini) (Franz Biebl (1906-2001))
- Winter Song (Frederic Field Bullard (1864-1904))
- Glee (Eric Lane Barnes (b. 1960))
- Loch Lomond (arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams)
- Embraceable You (George Gershwin (1898-1937) arr. Jay Althouse)
- And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda (Eric Bogle (b. 1944) arr. Don MacDonald)
- He Never Failed Me Yet (Robert Ray (b. 1946) arr. Keith Christopher)
- Vir-ir-gin-i-a (George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) arr. Donald Loach)
- Oh, Carolina (arr. Christopher Marshall)
- Here's to Old Virginia (traditional)
- Virginia's Cavalier Song (Fulton Lewis, Jr. '25)
- Virginia, Hail, All Hail (John A. Morrow '21)
- The Good Old Song (traditional)
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References[]
- ↑ McGuire, Molly (2010-03-10). "Glee clubs convene to celebrate an ancient tradition of song". Michigan Daily. http://www.michigandaily.com/content/michigan-and-harvard-glee-club-concert.
External links[]
- Virginia Glee Club on Tour - Glee Club tour blog