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"To have sung this music with a virtuoso orchestra and in youth must be one of the decisive events in a lifetime. A man would be one person before it; he would be another ever afterward. For no one need tell him that a world of the creative spirit exists. He has lived in it. He knows."
--Lucien Price, Amphion's Lyre


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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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HGC Repertoire 2007-2008

The Harvard Glee Club sings a range of repertoire spanning the centuries from Gregorian chant to the present day. Our repertoire usually focuses on Renaissance polyphony and on folk songs from around the world.

Renaissance
Kyrie
From Missa Mater Patris		 Josquin Desprez
Gloria
From Missa Mater Patris		 Josquin Desprez
Agnus Dei
From Missa Mater Patris		 Josquin Desprez
Lamentations of Jeremiah (Part I) Thomas Tallis
Caritas abundat Hildegard von Bingen

Romantic
Nachthelle Franz Shubert
Liebe und Wein Robert Schumann
Shestopsalmive Sergei Rachmaninoff
Panihida No. 2 Pavel Chesnokov

Contemporary
Apollo in Cambridge
For HGC's 150th anniversary		 Dominick Argento
Cantantes Licet Usque Eamus
For HGC's 150th anniversary		 Jameson Marvin
Psaume 121 Darius Milhaud
How Shall I Love Thee
For HGC's 150th anniversary		 Stephen Paulus
McCord's Menagerie: Clam and Mole
For HGC's 100th anniversary		 Irving Fine
The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard Benjamin Britten
Ave Maria Franz Biebl
Symphonie de Psaumes (with RCS, HRCM) Igor Stravinsky

Folk Songs
Arirang (for HGC) Arr. Elliot Forbes
Shenandoah (for HGC) Arr. Archibald T. Davison
Sacramento (for HGC) Arr. Archibald T. Davison
All through the night: Welsh (for HGC) Arr. Jameson Marvin
Skye Boat Song (for HGC) Arr. Jameson Marvin
Nishto f poliushke Arr. Gregory Smirnov
Sasom en aning ay ett under Robert Sund
Gentle Annie Stephen Foster
Pretty Saro Arr. Mark Keller
Lowlands Arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw

Traditional
Glorious Apollo S. Webbe/A.T. Davison
Football Songs traditional
Fair Harvard traditional