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Founded in 1858, the Harvard Glee Club is the oldest college choir in America, considered by many to be the premier collegiate men's chorus of the country. This year we are celebrating our 150th anniversary with a huge-scale spring and summer tour of the American east and west coasts, culminating in a performance at the Ravinia festival in Chicago. Harvard Glee Club also features a smaller subset ensemble, HGC Lite, which performs lighter a cappella works.


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Harvard Glee Club Sesquicentennial Concert

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On the night of April 11, 2008 at 8 PM, the Harvard Glee Club will be performing in Sanders Theatre in celebration of its 150th Anniversary. First, the Glee Club will combine with the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and a professional orchestra of the highest caliber to bring you Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms which the Glee Club and Choral Society premiered with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on December 19, 1930 under Serge Koussevitsky. After the intermission the Glee Club will sing the repertoire that has made them famous the world over. The folk-songs, renaissance polyphony, and other gems of the Glee Club repertoire will be complemented by the world premiere of Dominick Argento's Apollo in Cambridge, a setting of three texts by Harvard poets: Longfellow, Holmes, and Lowell. This work was commissioned by the Harvard Glee Club Foundation for the Glee Club in honor of its Sesquicentennial. Following the concert will be a reception to celebrate the Glee Club's 150th Birthday. Tickets are available at the Harvard Box Office online or by calling (617) 496-2222.

Alumni Registration for the Sesquicentennial Weekend

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The alumni registration for the weekend festivities is online at the new website of the Harvard Glee Club Foundation, hgcfoundation.org.  You can choose from all the individual events or buy a full weekend package, and you can choose from a number of family activities for Saturday.  Additionally, you can donate to the Sesquicentennial Fund.

Junior Parents Weekend Concert

Spring Concert '08

On Saturday, March 8, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society will be presenting Musica Diversa: a concert for Junior Parents Weekend. The concert is open to anyone, and tickets are available online at the Harvard Box Office or by phone at (617) 496-2222. The Glee Club will be singing songs from its spring tour repertoire. Tickets are $16 or $8 for students and seniors.

Spring Tour Dates Announced!

The Harvard Glee Club is proud to announce the tour dates for our 150th Anniversary Celebration Spring Tour! The Glee Club will be departing from Cambridge on Friday, March 21st and going on a whirlwind tour through Troy, New York; Washington, DC; Chapel Hill, NC; Philadelphia, PA; and New York, NY before returning on Sunday, March 30th.

For more information about the Spring and Summer Tour itinerary, concerts, and ticketing please browse through our Tour Website: http://www.harvardgleeclub.org/tour/Itinerary.html

New Harvard Glee Club Ringtones!

The Harvard Glee Club is now offering two free ringtones. Just click on the links below to download them (standard messaging charges may apply, consult your wireless carrier if you're worried about those 25 cents). Note: Some phones may take up to a day to receive the ringtones. We recommend you only attempt to send them once in a day so as to make sure you don’t receive seven separate messages at 3:00 AM.

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Welcome, Men of the Class of 2011!

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If you are interested in choral singing, you will surely be interested in the Harvard Glee Club. This year marks a special occasion for us--our 150th anniversary!

In celebration, we are preparing a nationwide spring and summer tour featuring:

  1. An Eastern Seaboard tour in March of major cities from New York City, to Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington D.C.
  2. A trip to the West Coast with concerts in venues from Seattle to San Francisco and Los Angeles following Commencement Ceremonies in June.
  3. Following the West Coast leg of the summer tour, stops and concerts in Midwest cities Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Kansas City.
  4. A tour-ending concert in the Martin Theatre for the Ravinia Music Festival outside of Chicago.
Harvard Glee Club looks forward to this unique opportunity to celebrate a rich choral tradition by visiting and exploring cities and alumni across the country under the baton of Jameson Marvin.

For more information about Tour 2008 contact our summer tour director at