Department of Music

• Friday, April 9, 2010
• Old Cabell Hall
• 8:00pm
• $15 adults/$10 seniors/$5 students

Come join the Virginia Glee Club as it collaborates with many beloved singing organizations in the first annual Singfest hosted by the Virginia Glee Club.  As the oldest musical organization on Grounds, the group carries with it the beloved traditions of the University.  The concert will provide entertainment for many different musical palettes leaving no one disappointed and everyone filled with the joy of song.

The evening will showcase a myriad of a cappella groups from around grounds including the Virginia Sil’hooettes, ReMix, and the New Dominions.

This performance will be on Friday, April 9th, 2010 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 and student tickets are $5.  They can be purchased at the Arts Box Office (434.924.3376), on the Lawn, or at the door.  For more information visit our website at www.virginiagleeclub.org.

Concert Program Includes:

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 Mozart’s Requiem, with the Mount Holyoke Glee Club, Bach’s Magnificat, with the Wellesley College Choir and Poulenc’s Gloria, with the Chatham College Choir. The Glee Club has also recently returned from its successful tour of the Northeast visiting such cities as Doylestown, PA, Wellesley, MA, Northampton, MA, New York, NY, Washington, D.C., Roanoke, VA, Williamsburg, VA, and singing for UVa’s next President, Terry Sullivan, at Ann Arbor, MI.  With this concert, the group nears the end of its 139th year of musical excellence under the baton of conductor, Frank Albinder, who is currently completing his seventh season with the Glee Club.

The Virginia Sil’hooettes- Simply stated, the Sil'hooettes are a group of girls who like to get together and sing other people's music without instruments.  The Sil'hooettes have performed for thousands of people in such venues as the Kennedy Center, John Paul Jones Arena, Charlottesville Pavilion, Baltimore Orioles and Boston Red Sox home baseball games, and as an opening act for recording artists Ben Folds and Girl Talk.  Once just the vision of four UVa students in the winter of 1988, the Sil'hooettes are now the most award-winning all-female a cappella group at UVa and continue to be one of the premier women's groups in the country.

ReMix- Founded in 2003, ReMiX was created to fill a genre that was missing in the a capella world, Hip hop and R&B!  So 7 awesome singers and 1 who just wanted to see it happen, came together to form what you all know ReMiX to be!  Founded on the traditions of smooth soul and rough hip-hop, ReMiX still stands today as the premiere group for those looking for a coed fusion of all vocal renditions of some of the hottest songs from BoyzIImen to Rihanna.

The New Dominions A Cappella group is a contemporary ensemble reflecting rich musical tradition and playful performance.  Founded in 1990, we are the oldest Coed a cappella group on grounds at UVA. We pride ourselves on high musical quality and feature a wide range of genres and artists. Auditions are held at the beginning of each semester, and we have a concert near the end. Exploding heads with awesomeness, we bring a fresh, fun flow to a cappella.