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Yale Glee Club hits a high note

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Yale Glee Club hits a high note

American universities inherited a choral tradition from England where, centuries ago, student choruses gathered to sing songs with different vocal parts known as glees. Today, dozens of US colleges have glee clubs - a cappella choruses open to students who pass an audition.

The Yale Glee Club is the nation's third oldest collegiate chorus. What began as a group of friends serenading passersby, has grown into a powerhouse vocal ensemble. This year marks its 150th anniversary, and this month, decades' worth of Yale Glee Club alumni head to New Haven, Connecticut for a reunion.

Diverse group

Singing has always been a big part of life at Yale, no matter what you're studying. Art major - later actor - Vincent Price and music major - later minister - William Sloane Coffin sang in the Glee Club. And so did Cole Porter, one of America's most popular composers, who wrote a football song celebrating Yale's mascot.

Another alumnus is Richard Brookhiser, who's now senior editor at the conservative magazine National Review. In college, he was already active in politics and recalls he enjoyed the wide cross section of people he met in the Glee Club.

"These were people who weren't into politics, or didn't share my politics necessarily," says Brookhiser. "But when you were singing, that didn't matter, because you were all focused on the music, and having a good time doing the music."

The Glee Club performs a mixture of spirituals, folk songs, and serious classical music.

"And that also showed someone who was maybe snobbish like I was, that all these different kinds of music have a value," says Brookhiser.

Yale Glee Club hits a high note

Rich tradition

The Yale Glee Club dates back to February 1861, and in all that time, there've only been seven conductors. Stowe Phelps, 93, sang under the fourth one, Marshall Bartholomew - known as Barty.

"Barty was a wonderful, affable teacher and conductor," says Phelps. "He made us work hard and insisted upon perfection."

Barty arranged dozens of folk songs and spirituals for what was then an all-male Glee Club. Jeffrey Douma, current conductor of the Glee Club, says it was no wonder that a music publisher snapped up those arrangements to sell to other groups.

"From our vantage point in 2011, they seem very old fashioned, but they were very fresh, and very exciting," says Douma, "and that's why his collection of Songs of Yale was the staple of male chorus repertoire for decades. Still is, actually."

Barty led the Glee Club for over three decades, and his successor, Fenno Heath, spent nearly four decades conducting and composing for the group. In 1969 during his tenure, Yale went co-ed - and so did the Glee Club.

Yale Glee Club hits a high note

Courtesy Yale University Glee Club The all-male Yale Glee Club appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1969. Stowe Phelps was not the only alumnus to have mixed feelings about losing the male glee club. "There is a passion, there is a vigor, there is a forcefulness, which is more thrilling,".

Common language

But the Glee Club survived and thrived as a mixed chorus. Yale Students down through the years have found the Glee Club's rehearsal room in Hendrie Hall a refuge from academic, and other pressures.

Roy Byrd was there in the 1960's. "Being black at Yale was a big deal. Being black in the Glee Club was no bigger deal than Yale generally. And in fact, because we had something in common with one another in the Glee Club, it was a small deal." Byrd was also one of the Glee Club's soloists.

Prochie Mukherji arrived at the Yale Law School in 1972. "There I was, a student from India, very far away from home. And the Yale Glee Club really was my door to making friends and to meeting people. It was a wonderful experience to have a common language in music."

Everyone agress that friends they met in the Glee Club are friends for life. Touring reinforced those friendships, with concerts across the country every winter, and tours abroad every other summer.

Yale Glee Club hits a high note

Conductor Jeffrey Douma considers the social element key to his group. "We're not only trying to serve the music and the composer, and we're not only singing for the audience, but we're also singing for each other. And we want to get it right for each other."

"One friend of mine jokingly called the Glee Club a nostalgia factory." says political science major Mari Oye, a senior in this year's group.

"The continuity of Glee Club across time, for the last 150 years - that's something I hadn't thought about as much until my senior year. I'm hoping we'll still be kicking for the 200th reunion, and we'll be able to come back to Hendrie and bawl our eyes out."

Saturday's reunion concert will feature seventy-five years worth of Glee Club members on stage together - from Stowe Phelps, class of 1939, through current Glee Club freshmen, class of 2014.

serenade: to sing or play music to somebody (as done in the past by a man singing under her window to the woman he loved) (對所愛慕的女子)唱小夜曲,奏小夜曲

ensemble: a small group of musicians, dancers or actors who perform together 樂團,劇團,舞劇團(全體成員)

mascot: an animal, a toy, etc. that people believe will bring them good luck, or that represents an organization, etc. 吉祥物

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