The Glee 440 Concert (Celebrating 440 Combined Years of Men's Glee Clubs) was held March 13, 2010 in St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The concert, a joint performance by the Virginia Glee Club (Frank Albinder, conductor), University of Michigan Men's Glee Club (Paul Rardin, conductor), and Harvard Glee Club (Jameson Marvin, conductor), was in celebration of the anniversaries of the founding of the Michigan (150 years), Harvard (151 years), and Virginia (139 years). The collaboration was made possible when the Virginia Glee Club added Ann Arbor to its spring tour upon learning of the incumbent presidency of Michigan chancellor Teresa Sullivan. Each group performed its own set during the concert.
Program[]
The Virginia Glee Club's performance was drawn from its tour program, which included the following works:
- Alle, psallite cum luya (Montpellier Codex, 13th c.)
- I Have Had Singing (Ron Jeffers (b.1943))
- Gloria (Robert Young (b.1923))
- Avadim Hayinu (Judith Shatin (b.1949))
- The Pasture (from Frostiana) (Randall Thompson (1899-1984))
- Promised Land (arr. Michael Richardson)
- Ave Maria (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)
- Betelehemu (Babatunde Olatunji, arr. Wendell Whalum)
- He Never Failed Me Yet (Robert Ray (b.1946), arr. Keith Christopher)
- Vir-ir-gin-i-a (George Frederic Handel (1685-1759), arr. Donald Loach)
- 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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