Notre Dame Men’s Glee Club to perform in Weston
The University of Notre Dame Men’s Glee Club, under the direction of Daniel Stowe, will appear at Mt. Olive Lutheran Church in Weston on Monday, October 17th at 7pm as part of their 2022 Fall Tour. The concert is free and open to the public; an offering will be taken.
The Glee Club recently celebrated its 100th anniversary as a campus ensemble. The program will include sacred music by composers such as Gabrieli, Penderecki, and Milhaud, German Lieder by Schubert and Mendelssohn, and arrangements of rock classics and jazz standards, along with Irish folk music and songs of Notre Dame. Don’t miss this unique evening of a cappella music for men’s chorus.
The Notre Dame Glee Club celebrated its Centennial in the 2015-16 school year, welcoming over 500 alumni back to campus for a reunion celebration and performance. Each year the 60-voice chorus presents a wideranging repertory in several formal campus and tour concerts as well as in dozens of informal performances at University events. The Club’s membership is drawn from all courses of study at the university; their concert programs customarily include classical a cappella music for men’s chorus as well as folk songs, African-American spirituals, barbershop arrangements, and songs of Notre Dame.
The Club tours domestically twice each year, and internationally once every other year; over the last quarter- century they have performed in over 40 U.S. states and in 20 countries in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
Among several Glee Club recordings are Beautiful Rain (2007), On the Rocky Road to Dublin (2012), and Loyal Sons (2016). Their most recent collection is Christmas at Notre Dame (2017), with the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra.
Director Daniel Stowe (dstowe@nd.edu) has been a member of the University of Notre Dame faculty since 1993. In addition to directing the Glee Club, he is also conductor of the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra and the Notre Dame Collegium Musicum, and teaches music history and conducting.
