U-M's Men's Glee Club to celebrate 153rd anniversary with a concert at Hill Auditorium

Posted on Tue, Apr 9, 2013 : 12:59 p.m.

U-M's Men's Glee Club to celebrate 153rd anniversary with a concert at Hill Auditorium

By Ann Dwyer

The year is 1859. Oregon has just been admitted as the 33rd state. "A Tale of Two Cities" and "The Origin of Species" are published. And on the U-M campus, the Men's Glee Club came together. To celebrate, they will hold their 153rd Spring Concert at Hill Auditorium on Saturday.

Special guests will include tenor George Shirley and the alumni of the 1963 and 1978 Langollen Competitions. The Langollen Competition gathers roughly five thousand singers, dancers and instrumentalists from around 50 countries perform to audiences. The Club has won four first place prizes there.

They will perform "Music of the Americas." Eugene Rogers will conduct and Stephen Gusukuma will be the assistant conductor.

Saturday, April 13, 2013. 8 p.m. $18/$15/ $5 balcony with student ID. Purchase tickets at mgc.tickets@umich.edu or call 734-764-1448. Hill Auditorium is located at 825 N. University Ave., Ann Arbor. 734-763-3333.

Comments

thann

Tue, Apr 9, 2013 : 7:32 p.m.

Can't wait -- their concerts are always wonderful.

Jessica Webster

Tue, Apr 9, 2013 : 6:56 p.m.

Bob from Sesame Street and Sanjay Gupta were members of the U of M Glee Club. That's the extent of my Glee Club trivia knowledge. Professor George Shirley is a Grammy winner and was the first African American tenor to sing a lead role at the Met. Pretty impressive!