Department of Music

• Friday, December 4, 2009
• Old Cabell Hall
• 8pm
• $15 General Admission, $5 Students, $10 Senior Citizens
  

• Saturday, December 12, 2009,
• The Paramount Theater
• 8pm
• $20 General Admission, $10 Students, $15 Senior Citizens

Come join the Virginia Glee Club as it celebrates the season of giving with its 69th Annual Christmas Concerts. As the oldest musical organization at the University of Virginia, the group brings the beloved traditions of the University along with a fun-filled, merry concert that provides the best of holiday entertainment for the entire family.

The evening will showcase many timeless classics and a few novel pieces that are sure to become instant favorites and warm everyone's hearts despite the brisk cold of Old Man Winter. The evening will include beloved carols to include the voice of the audience in this musical celebration. The all-male choir will also perform songs closer to the group and fun for all such as The Winter Song and Wassail.

The audience will be delighted to see the return of Franz Biebl's perennial favorite Ave Maria as well as our special guests, the Virginia Gentlemen. With this concert we give the Charlottesville and surrounding communities the warm gift of song that will put everyone in the holiday spirit. Don't miss this special, must-have addition to this most joyous season!

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The Old Cabell Hall performance will be on Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 8:00 pm in Old Cabell Hall, which is located on the Lawn of the Central Grounds of the University. General admission tickets are $15, senior citizen tickets are $10, and student tickets are $5. They can be purchased at Arts Box Office located in the Culbreth Drama Building, on the Lawn, online at www.artsboxoffice.virginia.edu, by phone (434.924.3376) or at the door. For more information visit our website at www.virginiagleeclub.org.
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The Paramount Theater performance will be on Saturday, December 12th, 2009 at 8:00 pm in the Paramount Theater located at the Charlottesville downtown mall. General admission tickets are $20, senior citizen tickets are $15, and student tickets are $10. They can be purchased at the Paramount or online at http://www.theparamount.net/. For more information visit our website at www.virginiagleeclub.org.
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The Virginia Glee Club, founded in 1871, is the oldest musical organization at the University of Virginia. The Club’s members, primarily undergraduate students, come from every school and college within the University. Members consider the group a “fraternity of talent,” committed to performing at a professional level, promoting fellowship, and preserving longstanding tradition. Throughout its history, the Virginia Glee Club has been consistently recognized as a leader among American men’s choruses, performing a variety of sacred and secular music in the classical tradition. The group performed for former President Bill Clinton at the national celebration of Thomas Jefferson’s 250th birthday and has also been heard on broadcasts of NBC’s Today Show, National Public Radio’s Performance Today, Virginia Public Radio, and the Voice of America. In addition to presenting on-grounds concerts, the group has toured widely, both domestically and abroad, and has collaborated with some of the finest women’s choruses in the eastern and southern United States. The Club toured France in the summer of 2000, visiting Paris, Lyon, Marseilles, Aix en Provence, Carcassonne, and Nice. Recent collaborations have also included Poulenc’s Gloria, with the Chatham College Choir, Mozart’s Requiem, with the Smith College Glee Club and the Holyoke College Glee Club, and Franz Joseph Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, with the Wellesley College Choir. The Glee Club has also recently returned from a very successful spring break 2006 tour of the Southern United States, including stops in Richlands, VA, Chattanooga, TN, Atlanta, GA, Birmingham, AL, and Jackson, MS, where the group performed for the Mississippi State Senate and was filmed singing for a BBC travel documentary. The group will take another tour this spring through the Northern East Coast visiting cities such as Boston, Philadelphia, and New York. With this concert, the group concludes its 139th year of musical excellence under the baton of conductor, Frank Albinder, who is currently completing his sixth season with the Glee Club.