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The Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra

The Notre Dame Glee Club

DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts

Daniel Stowe, conductor

102 Performing Arts Center

Notre Dame, IN 46556-4600

Tel (574) 631-9457; Fax (574) 631-9411

E-mail: dstowe@nd.edu

The Notre Dame Glee Club—Publicity Information

Founded in 1915, the Notre Dame Glee Club begins its 100th season of continuous operation in the fall of 2014. The 70-voice chorus presents a wide-ranging repertory in several formal campus concerts as well as in dozens of informal performances at University events, with a membership drawn from all courses of study at the university.

In recent years the Club has performed on tour in over 40 U.S. states and 20 countries. In the course of regular European tours (most recently in the spring of 2011, with another slated for the spring of 2015), the Club has performed in Ireland, England, France, Spain, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and the Czech Republic. In 1997 the Glee Club appeared in Israel with the Jerusalem Symphony and in 2001 the Glee Club visited Asia, singing in Singapore, Bangkok, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong (with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta), and Taipei. In 2005 they toured in Mexico and Central America, and returned to Guatemala in May and June of 2009 with the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra. In May and June of 2013 the Club toured northern Spain, including a pilgrimage on foot along the Camino de Santiago and capacity-crowd concerts in Burgos, León, and Salamanca Cathedrals.

The concert program for their spring 2015 tour will include classical a cappella music for men’s chorus as well as folk songs, African-American spirituals, barbershop arrangements, and songs of Notre Dame. Particularly noteworthy will be the premiere performances of two newly-commissioned works: a pair of sea shanty arrangements by Tim Takach, founding member of the noted men’s ensemble Cantus, and a poetic setting by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Chicago Symphony Composer-in-Residence Augusta Read Thomas.

Among several Glee Club recordings are Shake Down the Thunder (1989), Under the Dome (1999), In dulci jubilo (2001), Vive la compagnie (2005), and Beautiful Rain (2007). Their newest CD, On the Rocky Road to Dublin, was released in August of 2012.

A native of the Los Angeles area, Daniel Stowe (dstowe@nd.edu) has been a member of the University of Notre Dame faculty since 1993. He has degrees in music from the University of California, Davis, the University of Southern California, and Cornell University. In addition to directing the Glee Club, he is also conductor of the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra and the Notre Dame Collegium Musicum. Prior to his arrival at Notre Dame, he directed the University Chorus, Chamber Singers, and Early Music Ensemble at UC Davis and the Cornell University Chorale, and has been guest conductor for the South Bend Symphony, the South Bend Chamber Singers, and the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble.

The Notre Dame Glee Club

DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

Notre Dame IN 46556-5643



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Sample press releases:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Notre Dame Glee Club, under the direction of Daniel Stowe, celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2015. They will present a varied program of music for men’s chorus at (PLACE) on (DATE) at (TIME). Founded in 1915, the 70-voice ensemble celebrates its centennial this year has a wide-ranging concert repertory encompassing art music from the Renaissance to the 21st century as well as spirituals, folk and popular music, and songs of Notre Dame. They will be visiting (CITY) as part of their Spring 2015 tour.

The program will include the premiere performances of two newly-commissioned works: a pair of sea shanty arrangements by Tim Takach, founding member of the noted men’s ensemble Cantus, and a poetic setting by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Chicago Symphony Composer-in-Residence Augusta Read Thomas.

Each year on the Notre Dame campus the Glee Club presents several formal concerts and dozens of informal performances at University events; they also frequently appear with the South Bend Symphony Orchestra, often in tandem with the St. Mary’s College Women’s Choir. In recent years the Club has performed on tour in over 40 U.S. states, and internationally in Canada, Mexico, Central America, Europe, and Asia (they embark on a 15-concert tour of Europe in May.) Don’t miss this memorable evening of song.

For more information please contact [name] at [telephone+email].

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