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December 20, 2007
Purdue Varsity Glee Club to perform at Lincoln Center
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University's Varsity Glee Club will join with performers from the University Glee Club of New York City for a Jan. 5 winter concert at Avery Fisher Hall in New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.The 8 p.m. concert will feature the 125-member University Glee Club, made up mostly of alumni of college glee clubs across the nation and world, and 60 members of the Purdue Varsity Glee Club as special guests. Tickets for the concert are $20.
The performance will feature a variety of sacred and secular musical selections, said Steve Schlenk, Purdue Musical Organizations communications specialist.
"They're doing it in a big New York way," he said. "They've rented out the most famous hall other than Carnegie, plus the entire promenade, which will be filled with caterers and more."
Avery Fisher Hall is the home to the New York Philharmonic.
Purdue and the University Glee Club first connected in 1942 when Purdue went to Fred Waring's national competition at Carnegie and the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Schlenk said.
"Al Stewart, the founder of PMO, had modeled the organization on Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians," he said, based on their 1930s radio sound. "This gave Purdue Varsity Glee Club a mindset for professional-style performance unique among college glee clubs."
Purdue and University Glee Club are both charter members of Intercollegiate Men's Choruses, and Purdue hosted the Intercollegiate Men's Choruses twice in the 1950s, but the ties to the New York chorus eventually subsided.
Tickets for the concert are on sale at (212) 875-5030 or at https://www.lincolncenter.org/
There also will be an Afterglow Reception following the concert in the Grand Promenade adjacent to Avery Fisher Hall. Tickets to the concert and reception are $55, or group tickets for the concert and reception for eight people are $450.
These tickets are available by contacting Julie Ricciardi, Purdue Musical Organizations assistant director, at (765) 494-3947 or jericciardi@purdue.edu. Cash and checks payable to the Purdue Research Foundation are accepted.
Writer: Christy Jones, (765) 494-1089, christyjones@purdue.edu
Source: Steve Schlenk, PMO communications specialist, (765) 496-6091, sschlenk@purdue.edu
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu
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