About the Glee Club

The 2007-2008 Glee Club, with conductor Kimberly Dunn Adams and accompanist Mark Gionfriddo.

Directed by Miguel Felipe, the Glee Club (Music 293fs) is an advanced ensemble enrolling students from all four classes, female faculty, and staff. The group meets in McCulloch Auditorium Tuesday evenings from 7:15-9:30 pm, and Thursday afternoons from 4:15-5:45 pm.

The Mount Holyoke Glee Club travels across the country and around the world. Under the direction and leadership of our previous director, Catharine Melhorn, we have undertaken choral tours to South America, Canada, England and Wales, Russia and Sweden, Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic, the former Yugoslavia, Spain, and Costa Rica, as well as to many parts of the United States (most recently to Nashville, TN, Sarasota & Tampa, FL and Atlanta, GA, in earlier years to California, Seattle, Denver, Chicago, New Orleans, Washington DC, and bi-annually to Boston and New York).

We explore a wide range of music, for women's voices and for mixed voices. Joining with some of America's finest collegiate men's choirs (most recently from Harvard, Cornell, Rutgers, and University of Virginia), we perform major choral/orchestral works, such as Haydn's Creation, Brahms' Requiem, and Bach's St. John Passion and Mass in b minor. We also value shorter and smaller works -- from brand new pieces written especially for us, to music spanning all the world's folk traditions. We love to sing in languages other than our own: texts which make us think, which uplift us, and which bring joy to us and to our audiences.

We know that music--choral singing especially--connects us with others and provides true recreation for the soul. Our singers often claim they leave even the most demanding rehearsals with new energy to face the long night ahead, to tackle that essay due in the morning, or that lab report due yesterday!

Interested in coming to a Glee Club performance, or even joining? Check out the navigation to your upper left, or our Events Calendar for dates and information.