Harvard Glee Club celebrates 150th-Anniversary Tour with kansas city concert
WHAT: HARVARD GLEE CLUB
(60-voice men's choir conducted by Dr. Jameson
Marvin)
PRESENTED BY: HARRIMAN-JEWELL
SERIES
in cooperation with the Harvard Club of Kansas City
WHEN: Monday, June 30, at 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral, downtown Kansas City, Mo. (13th and Broadway Sts.)
TICKETS: $25 | call 816-415-5025 or visit www.harriman-jewell.org
PROGRAM: repertoire ranging
from Renaissance polyphony to classical, contemporary,
and folk music from around the world
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The Harvard Glee Club, America's oldest collegiate
choir, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 30,
at the Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral (13th and
Broadway Sts.) in downtown Kansas City, Mo., as part
of a 20-city nationwide 150th-anniversary tour. Dr.
Jameson Marvin conducts the venerated 60-voice men’s
choir in a program of hallmark works from its 150
years of chorale performances ranging from Renaissance
polyphony to classical, contemporary, and folk music
from around the world. This concert, presented in
cooperation with the Harvard Club of Kansas City,
closes the Harriman-Jewell Series' 2007–2008
season—the Series previously presented the choir
in 2005 and 1993.
The repertoire, which honors the Grammy-nominated Glee Club’s storied past and paves the road to another 150 years of musical excellence, includes Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy-winning composer Dominick Argento’s triptych Apollo in Cambridge, commissioned by the Harvard Glee Club Foundation for the choir’s anniversary. Also featured are works by Palestrina, Britten, Rachmaninoff, and others, as well as a range of widely recognizable college football fight songs originally created by the Harvard Glee Club.
Founded in 1858, the Glee Club counts many prominent Americans among the ranks of its alumni. Those who entered musical professions include Virgil Thomson (a Kansas City native), Leonard Bernstein, Irving Fine, John Harbison, and Elliott Carter—a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner who in 2005 credited his knowledge of music to the choir ("I Owe My Knowledge of Music to the Harvard Glee Club"; The Telegraph, London). Other prominent alumni include Kansas City's Jonathan Kemper (Vice Chairman of Commerce Bancshares, Inc. and Chairman of Commerce Bank, Kansas City Region); Theodore Roosevelt; Franklin Roosevelt; John "Jack" Reed, author of Ten Days that Shook the World; former Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun; and current U.S. Senator Jesse Francis “Jeff” Bingaman, Jr.
Tickets to the Harvard Glee Club concert are $25; reduced prices are offered to seniors 60 and older, students, and educators. To order tickets or for more information, call the Harriman-Jewell Series office at 816-415-5025 (toll-free at 888-528-5521) or visit www.harriman-jewell.org.
Now in its 43rd season, the nationally recognized Harriman-Jewell Series brings acclaimed performers from the worlds of music, dance, and theatre to Kansas City’s downtown venues. In addition to the performances, educational events offer free master classes and lectures to allow area community members and students to view artists in an informal setting. Peterson’s Smart Parents Guide to College cites the Series as a prime example of how small colleges “can become centers of culture for an entire region.”
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