Roll T-Shirt for the Tour of the South. John Liepold is atop the bus, which bears the license plate VMHLB.
The Tour of the South in spring 1992 was a weeklong tour by the Virginia Glee Club that was the highlight of the 1991-1992 season. The tour saw the group perform in venues in Chapel Hill, NC; Atlanta and Athens, GA; the Mississippi State House; and Loyola University, New Orleans, LA. The director for the tour was John Liepold.
The stop at the Mississippi State House was a late addition to the tour. As Liepold tells it, he received a call from Hob Bryan asking him if the Glee Club could sing "the Ave Maria" and some Virginia songs in the State House.
The group recorded its performance in New Orleans as A Dove in the Hall.
Itinerary[]
- March 13, 1992, 8:00 PM: Concert at University Baptist Church (Chapel Hill)
- March 14, 1992, 8:00 PM: Concert at Emory Presbyterian Church (Atlanta)
- March 15, 1992, 11:00 AM: Performance at St. Luke's (Dunwoody)
- March 15, 1992, 8:00 PM: Concert at First United Methodist Church (Atlanta)
- March 16, 1992, 8:00 PM: Concert at First Presbyterian Church (Oxford)
- March 17, 1992, 8:00 PM: Concert at Holy Name Church (New Orleans)
- March 19, 1992, 10:00 AM: Concert at St. Martin's Episcopal School
- March 20, 1992, 8:00 PM: Concert at the IMC National Seminar (Washington and Lee)
Repertoire[]
Repertoire for the tour was a combination of Renaissance and 20th century compositions and newly commissioned works, including:
- Alle, psallite cum luya (Medieval conductus)
- Ubi Caritas (Maurice Duruflé)
- O Vos Omnes (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
- O Vos Omnes (Pablo Casals)
- The Lamentations of Jeremiah (Part I) (Thomas Tallis )
- "De Profundis" (Arvo Pärt)
- Come Again, Sweet Love (John Dowland)
- "Come, Heavy Sleep" (Benjamin Broening) (Glee Club commission)
- "Shenandoah" (arr. James Erb) (Glee Club commission)
- Poor Wayfaring Stranger (Donald Moore, arr. Donald Loach)
- Soon-Ah Will Be Done (arr. William L. Dawson)
- Ave Maria (Biebl)
- "The Good Old Song" (trad/E. A. Craighill)
The tour posters additionally listed "Il Bianco et Dolce Cigno" (Jacob Arcadelt), "La, La, La Je Ne L'Ose Dire" (Pierre Certon), "Down in the Valley" (George Mead), "Blow the Candles Out" (Gregg Smith), "Time After Time" (Robert Birge) and New Day (John David), but these were not performed on tour.
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