Amherst College Glee Club The Amherst College Glee Club , founded in 1865, is a 40-voice Tenor/Base vocal ensemble , and one of the oldest continuous student organizations at Amherst College. It is part of the Amherst College Choral Society, along with the Women's Chorus , the Concert Choir , and the Madrigal Singers. The club has a history of extensive international touring, having to date performed in over 55 countries. It is currently directed by Dr. Arianne Abela.History Founding The club was founded as a student-directed double quartet in the spring semester of 1865 by Amherst senior Thomas E. Babb, in the spirit of Amherst's recently dissolved Donizetti Glee Club, founded in 1862. Though the group nearly disbanded two years later when all but one of its members graduated, it was revived in 1868 after one lone year of inactivity. It continued to flirt with dissolution — some years being quite active and successful and others less so — until the fall of 1876 when it came under the professional direction and training of "Professor" Friedrich Zuchtmann , a vocal instructor from Springfield, Massachusetts . Under his leadership the club found more firm footing and soon became a permanent fixture of Amherst College life.Early accomplishments In 1894 the Amherst Glee Club became one of the first American collegiate groups to travel to England . In 1925 they sang at the White House for President Coolidge , and they twice won the New England Intercollegiate Glee Club Contest - once in 1928 and once in 1934.Coming to maturity In 1963 the club came under the direction of Bruce G. McInnes, former director of the Apollo Glee Club at Yale University . Under this new leadership, Glee Club membership rose from under 30 in 1962 to over 100 in 1965. In 1967 the club embarked on the first of several "World Tours". These tours, each lasting over a month, eventually took the Glee Club all over the globe and featured a number of notable performances. They became the first American chorus to sing High Mass at the Notre Dame Cathedral , and sang for many notable people, including Pope Paul VI , King Mihendra and Queen Ratna of Nepal , president Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya , President Félix Houphouët-Boigny of the Ivory Coast , Princess Sarvath El Hassan of Jordan Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel, and noted composition teacher Nadia Boulanger .Present The club continues to perform both locally and internationally. In their 2007 tour to Estonia they sang for Prime Minister Andrus Ansip and President Toomas Hendrik Ilves .International tours 1894 - England 1928 - Bermuda 1961 - France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland 1967 - "World Tour" - France, Italy, Greece , Austria, Germany, Czechoslovakia , USSR , Sweden, Denmark 1969 - "World Tour" - Japan, Korea , Taiwan , Thailand , Nepal , Iran , Lebanon , Greece, Yugoslavia , Austria, Czechoslovakia, France 1972 - "African-Asian Tour" - Liberia , Ivory Coast , Malawi , Zambia , Kenya, Saudi Arabia , Pakistan , Afghanistan , Iran, Lebanon, England 1975 - "World Tour" - Morocco , Algeria , Tunisia , Egypt , Jordan, Syria , Romania , Austria, France 1977 - "Latin American Tour" - Guatemala , Costa Rica , Colombia , Peru , Bolivia , Paraguay , Uruguay , Brazil , Surinam , Guyana , Trinidad 1979 - "International Tour" - Spain, Monaco , Tunisia, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Turkey , Austria, Poland , France 1983 - "World Tour" - United States , Japan, Korea, Taiwan, India, Austria, Italy, Monaco, France 1990 - USSR, Czechoslovakia 1995 - Poland, Czech Republic 1999 - Austria, Italy 2003 - Japan 2007 - Iceland , Estonia 2011 - Greece 2019 - "Baltic Tour" - Estonia, Latvia , Lithuania Notable alumni Albert II, Prince of Monaco Dan Brown, author John Coolidge, son of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge Philip Gossett, noted musicologist Caleb R. Layton, U.S. Representative for Delaware George Adams Leland, doctor and educator Edmund Phelps, awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics Directors 1865-1876 - Student directed 1872-1874 - Assisted by George Cheney 1876-1883 - Friedrich Zuchtmann 1883-1894 - Alternated between students and Edward L. Sumner 1894-1911 - Student directed 1912-1931 - Charles W . Cobb ‘97 1932 - John J. Bishop 1932-1946 - Ralph H. Oatley ‘22 1946-1948 - Temporary hiatus for World War II 1948-1950 - Henry G. Mishkin 1951-1953 - Robert K. Beckwith 1954-1958 - Charles W. Ludington 1958-1962 - James Heywood Alexander 1963 - Charles M. Fassett 1963 - Bruce Archibald 1963-1985 - Bruce McInnes 1985-1986 - Mallorie Chernin and William McCorkle 1986–2018 - Mallorie Chernin 2018 - Gregory W. Brown 2018–Present - Arianne Abela
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