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As the Yale Glee Club prepares for the Fall 2009 Academic year we are also excited to announce that we have selected a production company to begin work on a documentary celebrating our upcoming 150th anniversary in 2011.
Production has already begun, and we had a camera crew traveling with the Glee Club during our tour to South America earlier this summer. The documentary will explore the ways in which song can create strong and lasting connections between people. The Glee Club's 1941 tour to South America is one example. The group's performance impacted the community to the extent that it spawned a number of local choirs, speaking to "the power of song" as a unifying factor for people the world over.
The documentary will use significant milestones in the history of the organization to build upon this theme. The Producers have asked us to reach out to our alumni network for stories and events that occurred during your involvement with the YGC, and that exemplify the transformative power of song. Whether you were personally involved (i.e. the integration of women into the organization during the early 70's), or perhaps just remember hearing stories from Fenno or Barty, we want to hear from you.
We would love to hear your anecdotes and memories.
Production has already begun, and we had a camera crew traveling with the Glee Club during our tour to South America earlier this summer. The documentary will explore the ways in which song can create strong and lasting connections between people. The Glee Club's 1941 tour to South America is one example. The group's performance impacted the community to the extent that it spawned a number of local choirs, speaking to "the power of song" as a unifying factor for people the world over.
The documentary will use significant milestones in the history of the organization to build upon this theme. The Producers have asked us to reach out to our alumni network for stories and events that occurred during your involvement with the YGC, and that exemplify the transformative power of song. Whether you were personally involved (i.e. the integration of women into the organization during the early 70's), or perhaps just remember hearing stories from Fenno or Barty, we want to hear from you.
We would love to hear your anecdotes and memories.
(From Tom Bauer '58) One of the most memorable Glee Club events of our '58 tour of Europe took place in Visby on the island of Gotland (Monday, July 7th). The previous evening we had been welcomed by a torchlit parade, and exchanged choral greetings between dock and ship, a memorable experience in itself. But at the concert in the Cathedral, Fenno looked up expecting to conduct his composition "The People Will Live On," and whispered to us, "Where is John Maxim ?"- the soloist of the work. Someone said "He was at the hotel taking a nap an hour ago." Fenno whispered in a tone of extreme exasperation, "Go back there and get him, quick!" Then he turned to the full Cathedral audience, and said in that calm, urbane tone that was his usual public face, "There will be a slight change in the order of the program; we will next sing....(I forget what.)" About ten minutes later a breathless John appeared near the back row, and the concert moved on to a conclusion of enthusiastic program waving by the assembled multitude, since it was considered impolite to applaud in the Cathedral.
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