Cornell University Glee Club
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The Cornell University Glee Club (CUGC) is the oldest student organization at Cornell University, having been organized shortly after the first students arrived on campus in 1868. The CUGC is a sixty-member chorus for male voices, with repertoire including classical, folk, 20th century music, and traditional Cornell songs.
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[edit] Achievements
- First American collegiate choral ensemble to tour Europe by traveling to England in 1895 with Cornell's crew team.
- First American collegiate ensemble to tour the Soviet Union, traveled to the Soviet Union and England from December 1960 to January 1961.
- Performed for national television and radio on such networks as Television Moscow, BBC, Educational Television Network, Radio Leningrad, Frankfurt Radio Network, Television Singapura, PBS, NBC, and others. Notable appearances include:
- The Kate Smith TV Hour (1951)
- The Perry Como Show (1954)
- Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion (1997)
- The Price is Right (1999)
- Frequent domestic and international tours have traveled to over thirty-five states and nearly thirty countries across four continents.
- First group to bring the Franz Biebl Ave Maria from Germany to the United States after meeting the composer during a recording session on the 1970 tour of Germany.
- Three month tour through East Asia in 1966 on an all-expense paid tour sponsored by the U.S. State Department.
- 1989 tour of China was the focus of the PBS documentary Geographical Fugue.
- First use of "Big Red" to refer to Cornell University dates to the song The Big Red Team, originally performed by the CUGC in 1905.
- First published history of an American collegiate choral ensemble, Songs From the Hill: A History of the Cornell University Glee Club by Michael Slon, Class of 1992, was published in 1998.
[edit] Directors
- 1889 - 1921: Hollis Ellsworth Dann
- 1921 - 1942: Eric Sydney Dudley
- 1942 - 1945: John Marinus Kuypers
- 1945 - 1946: Paul John Weaver
- 1946 - 1957: Thomas Brodhead Tracy, Class of 1931
- 1957 - 1995: Thomas Andrew Sokol
- 1995 - 2006: Scott Arthur Tucker
[edit] A cappella subsets
- Cayuga's Waiters (1949-present)
- disassociated from Glee Club in 1956
- Sherwoods (1956-1973)
- removed from Glee Club in 1958
- alumni still perform annually at Reunions weekend
- Glee Club Eight / Glee Club Octaves (1958-1966)
- Hangovers (1968-present)
- continue to tour and perform within the CUGC and separately as the official a cappella subset
- Leftovers (1971-1972)
[edit] International tours
The CUGC has performed as an ensemble in twenty-five different countries.
- 1895 - England
- 1954 - Mexico
- 1960-1961 - Soviet Union and England with airport stops in The Netherlands, Poland, and Denmark
- 1963 - England
- 1966 - East Asia: Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Okinawa (now part of Japan), South Korea, and Japan
- 1970 - Germany
- 1972 - Eastern Europe: Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Yugoslavia
- 1979 - England
- 1982 - England
- 1989 - Singapore, China, and Hong Kong
- 1992 - France, Spain, and Switzerland
- 1993 - Great Lakes with visit to Toronto, Canada
- 2001 - Venezuela
- 2004 - Brazil
[edit] Miscellaneous
[edit] The seal
Adopted as the official emblem of the Glee Club by Thomas A. Sokol shortly after he became director, the CUGC seal features the head of Apollo, the Greek god of music and poetry. It also recalls the official song of the world's first glee club, Glorious Apollo by Samuel Webbe.
[edit] Poem
One winter's day as the sun went down
And the shadows grew deep on the hill and glade,
A hapless stranger in the town
Beneath the Barnes Hall portal strayed.
And hear borne from the gloom o'erhead
Wild sounds, that filled his soul with dread.
Wild cries and shrieks were heard aloft,
With prayers and groans and yells,
And sounds unutterable, as oft
Of horrid murder tells,
Of ghosts unburied, who e'ermore
Must wander on the Stygian shore.
The stranger crossed himself in fear.
"What devil howl at even dim?
What are those awful sound I hear?"
A smiling student answered him,
"Those fearful sounds the night winds bring?
Why that's the Glee Club practicing."
- L.
- from Cornell Verse, published in 1901
[edit] Quotes
"I still thrill to the memory of a young tenor voice soaring over the others as the men of the glee club serenaded the girls of Sage College in the winter moonlight..."
- College life at Cornell, as described on page 58 of Bowery to Bellevue by Emily Dunning Barringer, the first woman ambulance physician, Class of 1897.
"When I got back from the Korean War, I was in the Cornell Club in Buffalo. They had a glee club concert. I was put in charge of tickets, and she was one of my ticket salesmen."
- Meeting his wife, as described by Barber Conable, Class of 1943, on page 39 of Window on Congress: A Congressional Biography of Barber B. Conable, Jr. by James Fleming.
"They are marvelous - perfectly wonderful."
- Eugene Ormandy, speaking of the chorus, after conducting a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony by the Glee Club, Chorus, and Philadelphia Orchestra on October 9th and 10th, 1962.
"This is the most exciting moment in my eight years as Governor of New York."
- Nelson Rockefeller after hearing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony performed by the Cornell Glee Club, Chorus, and the Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of Eugene Ormandy for the opening of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, August 4, 1966.
"As future events proved, it was a rare bit of good fortune that Fuertes, on entering Cornell, had joined its Glee Club."
- The reason for Louis Agassiz Fuertes's first meeting with Elliott Coues, famous ornithologist, from page 372, Elliott Coues: Naturalist and Frontier Historian by Paul Russell Cutright.
[edit] Notable CUGC alumni
- See also: List of Cornell University people
[edit] 1870s
- Robert Henry Treman - Class of 1878 - first of the Treman family to attend Cornell; Cornell University trustee for forty-six years, one of the longest terms in its history; philanthropist; gave land for Treman State Parks; second oldest member of the Cornell University Athletic Hall of Fame; president of Cornell University Alumni Association
[edit] 1880s
- Harry Platt Cushing - Class of 1881 - namesake of Cushing Plateau (now Burroughs Glacier) after expedition to Muir Glacier in Alaska
- Otto Marc Eidlitz - Class of 1881 - architect; Director of Housing for U.S. Government; built New York Stock Exchange building and J. P. Morgan building; left over $4 million to charities upon his death
- Hermann Krusi III - Class of 1882 - civil engineer in Manila; considered first person to successfully use Filipino labor; in charge of the dredging that created Alameda Island in San Francisco Bay
- Herman Atkins McNeil - Instructor in Industrial Art 1886-1889 - sculpted Ezra Cornell statue on the Arts Quad
- George Barlow Penny - Class of 1884 - adapted Cornell University's alma mater to be used by the University of Kansas as "Crimson and the Blue"; composer of "The Eastman Hymn"; director of the Rochester Conservatory of Music from 1910 to 1915; Dean of the Institute of Musical Art in Rochester, NY from 1915 to 1921; director of the University of Rochester Glee Club
- Felix Rackemann - Class of 1882 - member of the first editorial board of the Cornell Daily Sun; lawyer who appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court
- Frank Skelding Sommers and Henry Cantine Sommers - Classes of 1882 and 1881 - sons of the founder of Zeta Psi national fraternity, John Bradt Yates Sommers
- Harry Whitney Treat - Class of 1888 - Wall Street financier and Seattle real estate developer; richest person in Seattle upon arrival in 1904; developed and named Loyal Heights and Loyal Beach (now Golden Gardens); began Seattle trolley service, Loyal Railway Company
- Charles Edward Treman - Class of 1889 - banker, philanthropist, and Cornell University trustee; fourth oldest member of the Cornell University Athletic Hall of Fame
[edit] 1890s
- Eugene Plumb Andrews - Class of 1895 - archaeologist; deciphered inscription on the Parthenon in Greece; first faculty advisor to the Cornell University chimesmasters; built the first chimesmaster practice stand
- William Fitch Atkinson - Class of 1895 - first president of the Cornell University Association of Class Secretaries, predecessor to the Cornell Association of Class Officers (CACO)
- William Henry Feiker - Class of 1896 - mayor of Northampton, Massachusetts for a record seven terms
- Louis Agassiz Fuertes - Class of 1897 - ornithologist and painter
- Basil Spaulding Millspaugh - Class of 1899 (did not graduate) - changed name to Basil Ruysdael; actor in Blackboard Jungle; announcer on Your Hit Parade; played Andrew Jackson in Disney's Davy Crockett; vocal teacher of Lawrence Tibbett
- Clayton Woodman Old - Class of 1895 - founder and first president of the Associated Glee Clubs of America in 1924, now known as the Associated Male Choruses of America
- Frederick Fuller Russell - Class of 1891 - credited with perfecting and employing the first typhoid vaccination on a large scale as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army Medical Corps
- Myron Charles Taylor - Class of 1894 - Cornell University trustee; businessman and diplomat
- Alexander Buel Trowbridge - Class of 1890 - served as second dean of the Cornell University College of Architecture from 1897 to 1902
- Nathan Bristol Van Etten - Class of 1890 - namesake of Van Etten Hospital, part of the Jacobi/Bronx Municipal Medical Center
[edit] 1900s
- Neal Dow Becker - Class of 1905 - Consul general of Bulgaria; former chairman of the Cornell University Board of Trustees
- Romeyn Berry - Class of 1904 - author; fifth graduate manager (director) of Cornell University athletics; lyricist for Cornell song The Big Red Team; member of Cornell University Athletic Hall of Fame
- George Charles Boldt, Jr. - Class of 1905 - son of self-made millionaire George Boldt who was proprietor of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
- Sydney Bleecker Carpender - Class of 1907 - married the daughter of one of the Johnson & Johnson founders; lived in the Lindenwood estate, now part of the University Inn and Conference Center at Rutgers University; his ghost allegedly haunts the old wing of the building
- William Van Alan Clark - Class of 1909 - chairman of Avon Products, Inc.; married the daughter of Avon's founder; donated land for Clark Recreation Center in Ramapo, New York; founded the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
- William John Dugan - Class of 1907 - second graduate manager (director) of Cornell University athletics
- Bernhard Edward Fernow, Jr. - Class of 1906 - son of Bernhard Edward Fernow who was first and only dean of the Cornell University College of Forestry
- Theodore Julius Lindorff - Class of 1907 - composer of Fight for Cornell and Carnelian and White; Cornell University chimesmaster
- Nicholas Hartman Noyes - Class of 1906 - Cornell University trustee and philanthropist; namesake of Noyes Memorial Hospital and Cornell's Noyes Lodge; member of Cornell University Athletic Hall of Fame
- George Ashton Oldham - Class of 1905 - delivered a peace sermon in 1924 emphasizing "America First"; the sermon caught public attention and spread throughout the country in countless newspapers, magazines, posters, billboards, textbooks, and speeches
- John Wellborn Root, Jr. - Class of 1909 - architect of Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Daily News buildings, among others
- Paul Arthur Schoellkopf - Class of 1906 - Cornell University trustee; one of the three Schoellkopf's who contributed to Cornell's Schoellkopf Field; president of the Niagara Falls Power Corporation
- John Hull Scott - Class of 1909 - third graduate manager (director) of Cornell University athletics
- John Lawson Senior - Class of 1901 - first graduate manager (director) of Cornell University athletics
- Charles Edward Tourison - Class of 1906 - composer of The Big Red Team and lyricist of Give My Regards to Davy
- Robert Elias Treman - Class of 1909 - second husband of noted actress Irene Castle
[edit] 1910s
- Robert Alexander Anderson - Class of 1916 - prolific Hawaiian composer with nearly 200 songs to his credit, including Lovely Hula Hands, Coconut Island, and the popular Hawaiian Christmas song, Mele Kalikimaka
- Silas Hibbard Ayer, Jr. - Class of 1914 - composer and lyricist for Cornell Victorious; also co-wrote He's the Guy from Sigma Chi
- Alton Fletcher Baker - Class of 1916 - namesake of Alton Baker Park and Boy Scout Camp Alton F. Baker in Oregon; purchased and merged two newspapers to create the Eugene Register-Guard, the second-largest daily newspaper in Oregon
- Leslie Douglass Clute - Class of 1913 - president of the Arnot Ogden Medical Center; member of Cornell University Athletic Hall of Fame
- Ivan Chandler Dresser - Class of 1919 - gold medalist in the 3000 meter track & field event at the 1920 Olympic Games
- George Ervin Kent - Class of 1910 - fourth graduate manager (director) of Cornell University athletics
- John Shively Knight - Class of 1918 (did not graduate) - newspaper magnate whose papers garnered twenty-six Pulitzer Prizes during his tenure as chairman of what is now Knight Ridder; namesake of John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines at Cornell University
- Frederic Jansen Noyes - Class of 1910 - philanthropist; namesake of Noyes Student Center and its dining facility, Jansen's, on Cornell's campus
- Francis Phillip Wupperman - Class of 1912 (did not graduate) - changed name to Frank Morgan; film and Broadway actor; played the Wizard in the film The Wizard of Oz
[edit] 1920s
- John Cranford Adams - Class of 1926 - Second president of Hofstra University; founder of Hofstra William Shakespeare Festival
- Robert Burns Aird - Class of 1926 - president of Deep Springs College; founder of UC San Francisco Department of Neurology
- Gwynne Harris Daggett - Class of 1928 - controversial professor at the University of New Hampshire; namesake of the Daggett Reading Room in the Diamond Library; champion of academic freedom; accused of "subversive activities" during the Red Scare as well as supporting students in acts of civil disobedience
- H. Victor Grohmann - Class of 1928 - Cornell University trustee; founder of Needham and Grohmann Advertising Agency
- Cecil Rex Roseberry - Class of 1926 - prolific author on aviation and upstate New York
- Leslie Richard Severinghaus - Class of 1921 - educator and Cornell University trustee; married sister of Henry Luce
- Julian Haynes Steward - Class of 1925 - anthropologist; developed scientific theory of cultural evolution
- Allan Hosie Treman - Class of 1921 - lawyer and Cornell University trustee
- Samuel Armstrong Talbot - Class of 1925 - founder of the Biophysical Society; author of prominent physiology textbook
- Hugh Charles Troy, Jr. - Class of 1926 (did not graduate) - painter and prankster
[edit] 1930s
- John Bruce Boyce - Class of 1933 - celebrated Canadian operatic baritone; professor at Royal Academy of Music in London
- Henry Edward Guerlac - Class of 1932 - award-winning science historian, author, and educator
- Austin H. Kiplinger - Class of 1939 - former chairman of the Cornell University Board of Trustees; head of the Kiplinger publishing dynasty for 30 years
- Edward Marshall Palmquist - Class of 1931 - program director for the National Science Foundation; botany author
- Charles Snitow - Class of 1928 - exhibition industry pioneer; produced some of the nation's largest trade shows; founder and president of the World Trade Fair, which was eventually held in 59 countries
[edit] 1940s
- Richard Henry Lee - Class of 1941 - composer and lyricist of Strike Up a Song to Cornell and In the Red and White; Cornell University chimesmaster
[edit] 1950s
- Eli Manchester, Jr. - Class of 1952 - Cornell University trustee; president, chief executive officer, and a director of Kewaunee Scientific Corporation
- James Stocker - Class of 1951 - Cornell University trustee
- John Paul Timmerman, Jr. - Class of 1950 - composer and lyricist of Cornell Champions; noted ufologist; financial officer and investigator at the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies
[edit] 1960s
- Stephen John Hadley - Class of 1969 - U.S. national security advisor
- Layton "Skip" James - Class of 1967 - composer; principal keyboardist with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
- Knight A. Kiplinger - Class of 1969 - current Editor-in-Chief of Kiplinger's Personal Finance; Trustee of the Kiplinger Foundation
[edit] 1970s
- Alan Lee Keyes - Class of 1972 (transferred to Harvard University) - politician, diplomat, and U.S. presidential candidate
- Robert D. Kyle - Class of 1977 - served as special assistant to President of the United States Bill Clinton for international trade and finance
[edit] Popular Cornell songs (in chronological order)
The CUGC maintains Cornell's musical tradition by concluding most formal concerts with Cornell songs. Most of the songs were premiered by the CUGC and written by its members.
- Cornell - "The soldier loves his gen'ral's fame..."
- Alma Mater - "Far above Cayuga's waters..."
- The Chimes - "To the busy morning light..."
- 1875 - "'Twas on a sunny summer morn..."
- Evening Song - "When the sun fades far away..."
- Words: Henry Tyrrell, Class of 1880
- Music: Traditional (O Tannenbaum)
- Written: 1877 (words)
- Song of the Classes - "Oh, I am the freshman..."
- Crew Song - "Onward like the swallow going..."
- Alumni Song - "I am thinking tonight of my old college town..."
- Davy - "Give my regards to Davy..."
- The Big Red Team - "See them plunging down to the goal..."
- Cornell Hymn - "Lo, at her feet the valley lies..."
- Carnelian and White - "Cornell colors are waving today..."
- Words: Kenneth Roberts, Class of 1908
- Music: Theodore Julius Lindorff, Class of 1907
- Written: 1906
- Fight for Cornell - "From rocky height..."
- Words: Kenneth Roberts, Class of 1908
- Music: Theodore Julius Lindorff, Class of 1907
- Written: 1906
- Cornell Victorious - "From blue cayuga..."
- My Old Cornell - "Oh, I want to go back to the old days..."
- Words: Will A. Dillon
- Music: Will A. Dillon
- Written: 1917
- Hail Thou in Majesty, Cornell - "Hail thou in majesty, Cornell..."
- The Hill - "I wake at night and think I hear remembered chimes..."
- Tales of Old Cornell - "She stands upon her hill, serene..."
- March On, Cornell - "Onward, Cornell, to the top where you belong..."
- In the Red and the White - "In the red and the white..."
- Strike Up a Song to Cornell - "Strike up a song to Cornell..."
- Cornell Champions - "Cornell champions are winning the game..."
- New Cornell Fight Song - "C-O-R-N-E-double-L..."
- Words: Marice Stith
- Words: Marice Stith
- Written: 1976
[edit] Song premieres
- Haec est Domus Domini
- By Maximilian Albrecht
- World Premiere: ?
- Lord's Prayer
- By William Austin
- World Premiere: ?
- Latin Ode
- By W. G. Hale
- World Premiere: November 19, 1885
- Exsultet Sanctus
- By Maximilian Albrecht
- World Premiere: 1962
- Comoedeia de Christi Resurrectione
- Requiem
- By Maximilian Albrecht
- World Premiere: 1963
- Nabuchodonosor Rex
- Festive Ode
- By Karel Husa
- World Premiere: October 9, 1964
- Laudemus Tempus Actum
- Cantata
- Prophecy of Isaiah
- By Bohuslav Martinů
- American Premiere: October 17, 1968
- Field Mass
- By Bohuslav Martinů
- American Premiere: 1970
- The Apotheosis of this Earth (for Chorus and Orchestra)
- By Karel Husa
- World Premiere: April 1972
- Caedmon
- By Leo Smit
- World Premiere: December 10, 1972
- Te Deum
- By Anton Reicha
- American Premiere: 1974
- Die Harmonie der Sphären (The Harmony of Spheres)
- By Anton Reicha
- American Premiere: 1974
- Tenebrae Factae Sunt
- By Duane Heller
- World Premiere: 1978
- Go, Lovely Rose
- By Byron Adams - Cornell DMA 1984
- World Premiere: October 25, 1982
- Canticle
- By David Conte - Cornell DMA 1983
- World Premiere: October 25, 1982
- Requiem Triptych
- By David Conte - Cornell DMA 1983
- World Premiere: 1983
- Missa Brevis in Honorem Maximilianis Kolbe
- The Seasons of Erin
- Ave Maria
- The Night is Darkening Round Me
- By Leonard J. Lehrman
- World Premiere: October 10, 1987
- Dedication
- The Apotheosis of this Earth (v. 3 for Chorus and Wind Ensemble)
- By Karel Husa
- World Premiere: March 11, 1990
- Camina Juventutis
- By David Conte - Cornell DMA 1983
- World Premiere: November 6, 1993
- A Jubilation
- By Kendall Crosby
- World Premiere: 2000
- To Musick
- By Steven Stucky
- World Premiere: October 27, 2000
- Dona Nobis Pacem
- Missa Brevis III
- By Ernani Aguiar
- World Premiere: March 26, 2004
- The Rewaking
- By Augusta Read Thomas
- World Premiere: October 15, 2005
- Four Scenes of the Rubaiyat
- By Julian Wachner
- World Premiere: October 14, 2006
- Tears for Te Wano
- By Kay Rhie
- World Premiere: October 14, 2006
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Cornell University Glee Club
- The Cornell Hangovers
- Cornell University Music Department
- Cornell University
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