Events & News
Events & News
During the upcoming 2021-2022 season, the Harvard Glee Club will be learning and performing works for TTBB chorus and organ, and will feature these pieces in producing the group’s first studio recording in decades. This interactive seminar will explore these pieces, examine the compositional and performance considerations of music for men’s chorus and organ, and share insights into HGC’s approach to this project as we emerge from the pandemic and return to in-person singing.
We are excited to announce our second virtual benefit concert in collaboration with the Princeton University Glee Club and the Yale Glee Club!
Watch the first HGC Alumni Virtual Choir in the ‘TOGETHER AT HOME’ series sing Beati Mortui!
Chanticleer has been at the forefront of the American a cappella sound since 1978. Each season finds the group performing over 100 concerts all around the world, with repertoire ranging from Renaissance polyphony and Baroque counterpoint, to intricate jazz charts and feel-good pop. Performing such diverse repertoire on such a consistent basis comes with a unique set of vocal, musicianship, and interpersonal demands. In this talk, we'll explore all the skills necessary to make it as a 21st century consort singer.
We enthusiastically invite our alumni to join us for a mass-virtual choir recording of Aretino’s “Tenebrae factae sunt.”
We invite current HGC alumni to participate in a virtual choir recording project with the Harvard Glee Club, Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, Radcliffe Choral Society, Princeton Glee Club, and Yale Glee Club.
JOIN YOUR FELLOW HGC ALUMS FOR AN AFTERNOON OF SINGING AND CAMARADERIE! A NEW TRADITION FOR THE CLASSES OF 90'S, 00'S, 10'S AND 20'S. DR. MICHAEL MCGAGHIE '01 CONDUCTING
JOIN YOUR FELLOW HGC ALUMS FOR AN AFTERNOON OF SINGING AND CAMARADERIE! A NEW TRADITION FOR THE CLASSES OF 90'S, 00'S, 10'S AND 20'S. DR. MICHAEL MCGAGHIE '01 CONDUCTING
Watch the second HGC Alumni Virtual Choir in the TOGETHER AT HOME series sing Sicut Cervus!
Watch the first HGC Alumni Virtual Choir in the ‘TOGETHER AT HOME’ series sing Beati Mortui!
Social distancing measures have closed venues, postponed concerts and left many of us with nostalgia for a great choral concert. The good news is that we have a temporary solution -- stream recent Harvard Glee Club concerts directly into your home.
Prepare for holiday delights, moving classics, and the joy of coming together online!
Join us for an exploratory conversation about Renaissance music and its context within today’s choral canon.
Join us for a stimulating conversation about how contemporary choral music renews itself through critiquing its own past. Modern composers have often found inspiration in the legacies of Baroque forms, notably those of the Bach Passions.
Join us for an exciting conversation about TTBB music and how choral music is evolving in the 21st century.
Harvard Glee Club Alumni stands united with the Harvard Glee Club and supports efforts to change the systemic problems of racial and social injustice.
We are starting the nomination process and are seeking your suggestions for a few good alumni whom you think we should consider for our 2020-2021 slate of Directors.
We invite you participate in the first ever HGC Alumni Virtual Choir for ‘00s & ‘10s!
Join your fellow HGC Alumni members for an afternoon of singing and camaraderie!
You are cordially invited to join other alums and current members of the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society for a Caroling Party around the Harvard Campus and Harvard Square.
Join the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society and Yale Glee Club for the Annual Harvard-Yale Football Concert!
Tune in for the live stream of the Harvard-Yale Football Concert.
Join the Harvard Glee Club for the 106th Annual Harvard-Princeton Concert on Saturday, October 19 in Sanders Theatre!
Live stream of the 2019 Harvard-Princeton Football Concert at Sanders Theatre
We are looking forward to seeing you at this upcoming weekend’s Marvin-Era HGC Alumni Reunion. Whether you registered for a single event or for the full weekend of activities, you are sure to have a great time mixing and mingling with fellow Glee Club alumni.
We are starting the nomination process and are seeking your suggestions for a few good men (or women!) whom you think we should consider for our 2019 slate of Directors.
Join us for an evening with Jameson Marvin, Harvard’s Director of Choral Activities Emeritus.
VERY early Thursday morning, members of the Harvard Glee Club, together with their colleagues from the Radcliffe Choral Society, flew from Boston to Dallas to begin a 10-day concert tour of the Lone Star State.
As the Crimson tries to avenge last year’s crushing 24-3 loss to the Bulldogs in The Game (to be held this year at Fenway Park!), the Harvard Glee Club will do its part with the home field advantage the weekend before Thanksgiving.
Harvard Glee Club alumni won’t want to miss any of these exciting offerings from the Harvard Glee Club this fall, both at Harvard and beyond.
For sixty years, Harvard Glee Club alumni (and, more recently, former members of the Radcliffe Choral Society and Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum) have provided singers from the Harvard Choruses with the unique opportunity to take private voice lessons at significantly reduced cost.
As the Glee Club prepares to welcome a new group of members into its ranks, we asked Reiff to reflect on the past year and to look forward to the next. Here are some of his responses.
Chase Mohney ’08 and Andy Secondine ’18 may have shared a title, but these onetime Harvard Glee Club Vice Presidents strike two rather different figures as they walked side-by-side in Harvard Yard last year.
Building on the happy circumstance of a string of eleven collaborations between alumni of the Harvard Glee Club and the “Old Boys” of the Kyoto University Men's Glee Club—especially 2016's very successful San Francisco week—we are pleased and excited to announce the next set of concerts in this series that began in 1990.
The Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra joined forces for this moving performance.
The Harvard Glee Club and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum performed their Spring Concert in Memorial Church, Harvard Yard, at 8pm on April 6.
The Harvard Glee Club once again took to the road on a Spring tour to the Upper Midwest!
METAMORPHOSES: ORPHEUS IN OEDIPUS. The Harvard Glee Club and Emmanuel Music had a stunning performance of Igor Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex on February 23, 2018 in Sanders Theatre.
Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra.
The 104th Annual Harvard-Princeton Football Concert was held on Saturday, October 21 at 2 PM in historic Sanders Theatre after Friday’s big game.
Harvard Glee Club alumni won’t want to miss any of these exciting offerings from the Glee Club and other Harvard Chorus this fall, both at Harvard and beyond.
Earlier this fall, the Harvard Glee Club bid farewell to one resident conductor and welcomed another.
In mid-September, members of the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society headed west to the Berkshire Hills for their annual fall retreat at the beautiful Camp Winadu in Pittsfield, MA.
One of the many new features in the website is an “Around the Yard” page which will include articles about goings-on at Harvard today beyond the work of the Glee Club and other Harvard Choruses.
n September 2011, several months after the death of former Harvard Glee Club conductor, F. John Adams AB ’66, WHRB, Harvard’s student-run radio station, broadcast a three-hour “orgy” of some of the best performances of Glee Club and other Harvard Choruses during F. John's tenure as conductor of the three choruses (1970-78) together with extended clips of interviews of F. John from the same period.
Watch the second HGC Alumni Virtual Choir in the TOGETHER AT HOME series sing Sicut Cervus!