CELEBRATING 150 YEARS: Looking Ahead
Friday, November 13, 2009 8:00pm
Seligman Performing Arts Center
Detroit Country Day School, 22305 West Thirteen Mile Rd. Beverly Hills, MI  48025
Tickets available at the door, $20
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The Men's Glee Club begins its 150th anniversary celebration with an all-American program of new and diverse music. Founded in 1859, the Club continues to take pride in performing music of diverse styles, traditions, and time periods, and has championed the works of living composers. This concert includes contemporary music in the classical, folk, popular, and gospel styles.

This concert features Searchlight Soul by Pulitzer- and Grammy-award winning composer William Bolcom, a five-movement set highlighting the poetry of University of Michigan students. The Club will also perform A stopwatch and an ordnance map by Samuel Barber, Everyone Sang by Joel Martinson, The Morning Trumpet arranged by Mack Wilberg, Lowlands and Let the Bullgine Run arranged by Alice Parker, and Wonderful Is Your Name by Hezekiah Walker. As always, the concert also includes the a cappella antics of The Friars and concludes with rousing Michigan songs.

Saturday, November 21, 8:00pm
Hill Auditorium
825 North University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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The Men’s Glee Club begins celebrates 150 years of Fall concerts with an all-American program of new and diverse music. Founded in 1859, the Club continues to take pride in performing music of diverse styles, traditions, and time periods, and has championed the works of living composers. This concert includes contemporary music in the classical, folk, popular, and gospel styles.

This concert features Searchlight Soul by Pulitzer- and Grammy-award winning composer William Bolcom, a five-movement set highlighting the poetry of University of Michigan students. The Club will also perform A stopwatch and an ordnance map by Samuel Barber, Everyone Sang by Joel Martinson, The Morning Trumpet arranged by Mack Wilberg, Lowlands and Let the Bullgine Run arranged by Alice Parker, and Wonderful Is Your Name by Hezekiah Walker. As always, the concert also includes the a cappella antics of The Friars and concludes with rousing Michigan songs.
 
Special guests on this concert are the men of the Southfield-Lathrup High School Madrigal Singers, Jeffrey Martin, conductor, who appear with the Men’s Glee Club as part of the inaugural Men’s Glee Club Adopt-A-Choir program for mentoring and outreach.

Friday, February 19th, 2010 8:00pm
Mt. Clemens United Methodist Church
57 Southbound Gratiot, Mount Clemens, MI 48043
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AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY

This concert features Searchlight Soul by Pulitzer- and Grammy-award winning composer William Bolcom, a five-movement set highlighting the poetry of University of Michigan students. The Club will also perform A stopwatch and an ordnance map by Samuel Barber, Everyone Sang by Joel Martinson, The Morning Trumpet arranged by Mack Wilberg, Lowlands and Let the Bullgine Run arranged by Alice Parker, and Wonderful Is Your Name by Hezekiah Walker. As always, the concert also includes the a cappella antics of The Friars and concludes with rousing Michigan songs.

Saturday, February 20th, 2010 7:00pm
Westminster Presbyterian Church
125 North Wilkinson Street, Dayton, OH 45402
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AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY

This concert features Searchlight Soul by Pulitzer- and Grammy-award winning composer William Bolcom, a five-movement set highlighting the poetry of University of Michigan students. The Club will also perform A stopwatch and an ordnance map by Samuel Barber, Everyone Sang by Joel Martinson, The Morning Trumpet arranged by Mack Wilberg, Lowlands and Let the Bullgine Run arranged by Alice Parker, and Wonderful Is Your Name by Hezekiah Walker. As always, the concert also includes the a cappella antics of The Friars and concludes with rousing Michigan songs.

CELEBRATING 301 YEARS OF SONG
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Harvard Glee Club and UM Men’s Glee Club in Concert
St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church
530 Elizabeth Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
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The oldest and second-oldest collegiate men’s choirs in the country share a concert in this historic event. The culmination of three major celebrations in two years – the 150^th anniversaries of the Harvard (2009) and University of Michigan (2010) Glee Clubs, and HGC conductor Jameson Marvin’s 32^nd and final year as Director of Choral Activities at Harvard University – this memorable concert will feature music from many different time periods and styles, including Renaissance, American contemporary, and folk songs from around the world.

150^th CELEBRATION ALUMNI CONCERT
Saturday April 10, 2010, 3:00pm
Hill Auditorium
825 North University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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MGC celebrates 150 years of Tradition, Camaraderie, and Musical Excellence with this special concert featuring MGC alumni. Hundreds of MGC alumni will gather to perform some of MGC’s greatest hits under the direction of former conductors Willis Patterson, Leonard Johnson, Patrick Gardner, Bradley Bloom, Jerry Blackstone, Steven Lusmann, and current conductor Paul Rardin. The repertoire includes such favorites as Randall Thompson The Last Words of David and Franz Biebl’s Ave Maria, as well as folk songs, spirituals, and Michigan songs. It’s part one of a memorable doubleheader of concerts, culminating later that evening with the current Club’s 150^th Annual Spring Concert.

Saturday April 10, 2010, 8:00pm
Hill Auditorium
825 North University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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The Men’s Glee Club celebrates 150 years of Tradition, Camaraderie, and Musical Excellence with this concert of music from around the world. Honoring the great international tours to six continents that the Club has taken for over the past half century,  the Club presents music from Germany, Russia, China, Japan, Polynesia, Jamaica, and England. Repertoire includes Standchen by Franz Schubert, Spaseniye sodelal by Pavel Chesnekov, Ka Hia Manu arranged by Steven Hatfield, and world premieres of Chinese songs Deng Guan Que Lou and Gao Shan Quin arranged by assistant conductor Reed Criddle. As always, the concert also includes the a cappella antics of The Friars and concludes with rousing Michigan songs. It’s part two of a memorable doubleheader that begins Saturday afternoon at 3pm in Hill Auditorium with the 150^th Celebration Alumni Concert.