MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE GLEE CLUB
TO PERFORM AT SPELMAN COLLEGE

SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. – Strengthening the connections between their historic institutions, the Mount Holyoke College Glee Club will travel to Atlanta, Georgia, to perform in a Spring Concert with the Spelman College Glee Club on Saturday, April 5 at 7 PM in Sisters Chapel on the Spelman campus.

The Mount Holyoke Glee Club will honor Beverly Daniel Tatum, Spelman's new president and the former dean of the College at Mount Holyoke, with a performance of a setting of Psalm 150 composed for her inauguration by Kevin Johnson, assistant professor of music at Spelman and director of the Spelman Glee Club. Tatum was installed as Spelman's ninth president on March 22.

The visit completes an exchange begun on March 11, when Tatum travelled with the Spelman Glee Club to Mount Holyoke for a concert in the College's Abbey Chapel.

While in Atlanta, the Mount Holyoke Glee Club will also perform at a reception for local MHC alumnae at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center and at a service at the Cathedral of St. Philip. Students will also take a bus tour of Atlanta, stopping at the Martin Luther King Jr. Historic Site, and will tour Spelman, CNN, and the World of Coke, concluding their visit with a banquet at Paschal's Castleberry Hill.

The Mount Holyoke Glee Club has undertaken numerous international tours, winning acclaim in South America, central and eastern Europe, England, Sweden, Spain, and Costa Rica. They have appeared in New York's Alice Tully Hall, and in cities across the United States and Canada, including Seattle, San Francisco, Denver, Chicago, New Orleans, and West Palm Beach. This will be their first visit to Atlanta. The Glee Club is under the direction of Catharine Melhorn, Hammond-Douglass Professor of Music and choral director at the College.

Founded by revolutionary educator and chemist Mary Lyon in 1837, Mount Holyoke College is a highly selective, nondenominational, residential, liberal arts college for women enrolling approximately 2,000 students from across the United States and more than 70 countries.

Spelman College, founded in 1881, is the nation's leading liberal arts college for black women. As a part of Atlanta University Center - the largest consortium of historically black colleges and universities in the world - Spelman enrolls more than 2,000 students from 45 states and 19 foreign countries.