Concert | Harvard Glee Club

The Harvard Glee Club’s repertoire has historically drawn from the collegiate, folk, and sacred music of Europe and North America, incorporating pieces dating from the Renaissance onward. This season, the Glee Club will draw upon a variety of choral traditions, including that of the country of Georgia for its performances. As both the bearers of Harvard’s beloved football songs and the authors of new traditions, the Glee Club seeks each year to strike a balance between preservation and innovation.

An ensemble of tenor and bass voices, the Harvard Glee Club is the oldest collegiate choir in the United States. Since their founding in 1858, they 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. To foster the growth and vitality of tenor-bass choral repertoire, the Glee Club has commissioned pieces from composers such as Bongani Magatyana, Molly Joyce, Morten Lauridsen, Robert Kyr, Brandon Waddles, and Sir John Tavener.

This is a free concert. No tickets are needed.