Pomona College Glee Club on Tour
When:
Saturday, May 24, 2025 7:30p -
9:00p
Saturday, May 24, 2025 7:30p -
9:00p
Where:
First Church Cambridge
11 Garden St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Music
Event website:
www.pomona.edu/glee-tour
The Pomona College Glee Club, under the leadership of Donna M. Di Grazia, comes to Cambridge, Massachusetts from Claremont, CA for their 2025 concert tour. The Glee Club boasts a membership of 30 singers who passed a rigorous audition evaluating their individual strengths in singing and sight reading, their abilities to learn a great deal of music quickly, and their readiness to work within a small ensemble, where blend and musical sensitivity are essential. The ensemble will present a radiant offering of unaccompanied choral music, from charming 16th-century French chansons to the exquisite setting of Langston Hughes’ poem April Rain Song by Robert Harris. The program also includes works by Maurice Duruflé, Francis Poulenc, Maurice Ravel, Frank Ticheli, Ralph Vaughan Williams and others. All the concerts are free of charge. The public is welcome.
Tour Program:
Duruflé – Tu es Petrus
Mäntyjärvi – Ave Maria d’Aosta
Raczyński – Gaudeamus omnes
Sermisy – Tant que vivray
Passereau – Il est bel et bon
Poulenc – La belle se sied au pied de la tour
Certon – La, la, la je ne l’ose dire
Vaughan Williams – Three Shakespeare Songs
Runestad – Let My Love Be Heard
Harris – April Rain Song
Ravel – Trois Chansons
Ticheli – Earth Song
Elder – The Heart’s Reflection
arr. Hogan – Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel
Cambridge, MA • 7:30 p.m., Saturday, May 24, 2025
First Church Cambridge UCC, 11 Garden St, Cambridge, MA 02138
FMI: 909-621-8155 or www.pomona.edu/glee-tour
All concerts are free and open to the public. (No tickets required.)
Donna M. Di Grazia, the ensemble’s current conductor, holds the David J. Baldwin Professorship in Music and has been a member of the Pomona College faculty since 1998. She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of California, Davis, where her principal conducting mentor was Albert McNeil; and her Ph.D. in musicology from Washington University in St. Louis. She is also an active musicologist and has been an active choral musician throughout her career. For more information, visit: pomona.edu/directory/people/donna-m-di-grazia.
