About

For information about the Glee Club’s Northeast Tour, please visit http://www.gleeclub.com/netour/.

The Cornell University Glee Club, the oldest student-run organization at Cornell, is considered one of the best men’s choirs in the country. The group will tour the Northeastern USA, including Boston, New York City, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. in January 2010 to perform at a wide range of venues including Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center, the Terrace Theatre at the Kennedy Center and the Old South Church in Boston.

The Glee Club is composed of 50 to 60 students who all have gone through two rounds of auditions to be accepted into the group. The group has traveled all over the world in its 141 years, including Brazil, China, England and Venezuela in just the last 15 years. They also go on domestic tours every year except when they’re on international tours.

The Glee Club will be directed by John Rowehl, in place of professor Scott Tucker who will be away on sabbatical, for the 2009 Fall Term and the Northeast Tour. John Rowehl is a DMA candidate at Cornell University, the former Assistant Conductor of the Cornell University Glee Club and a graduate of Stanford University.

The Northeast Tour is an opportunity for the Cornell University Glee Club to reach out to communities outside of Cornell University and Ithaca to share its unique repertoire and the Cornell tradition to alumni and members of the local communities. The first half of each concert will consist of male choral music from a variety of cultures. The repertoire spans from European Renaissance to Folk Music of the Americas. Highlights of the repertoire include Patrick Quigley’s arrangement of the Irish Folk Song, Danny Boy and a newly commissioned piece by composer Daniel Kellogg called Innisfree, which is a setting of the William Butler Yates poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree. In the second half, the Hangovers, the a cappella subset of the Glee Club, will perform several original arrangements of popular music. The final portion of the concerts will be devoted to traditional Cornell songs including the Song of the Classes, the Evening Song and the Cornell Alma Mater.