2024 HGC Alumni Chorus in Hiroshima

2024 HGC Alumni Chorus in Hiroshima

Our 12th collaboration with Kyoto University Alumni, conducted by Harris Ipock.

By Harvard Glee Club Alumni

Date and time

May 12 · 9am - May 20 · 9am JST

Location

To be announced

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 30 days before event
Eventbrite's fee is nonrefundable.

About this event

Come relive the unique joy and fellowship we experienced in the Harvard Glee Club, with the added bonus of international collaboration with our friends from Kyoto University. This year, we will be led by Harris Ipock, former assistant conductor of the Glee Club and now Director of Choral Activities at Denison University. We are very lucky to have Harris: in addition to his teaching schedule, he has an active career as a soloist and professional chorister. As a member of Conspirare, he appears on several recordings, including the GRAMMY winning album Sacred Spirit of Russia.

Together, we will prepare approximately twelve pieces of music from old and new repertoire that are both challenging and rewarding. We will perform the full program at a concert on Saturday, May 18 , and part of the program at a church service on Sunday morning, May 19. Both venues have been instrumental in Hiroshima's dramatic rebirth after the calamity imposed on them in 1945. Fittingly, we will be hosted by a local organization called Music Brings Peace.

Here are the details:

REHEARSAL WEEKEND in Cambridge: March 16-17, 2024. All day Saturday, half-day Sunday. Location and exact times TBA.

Main schedule in HIROSHIMA:

  • Sunday, May 12, 2024 (or earlier): depart from home
  • Monday, May 13: arrival in Hiroshima (HGC)
  • Tuesday, May 14: HGC Rehearsal
  • Wednesday, May 15: afternoon HGC and KGC joint rehearsal & Welcome Party
  • Thursday, May 16: free day for Hiroshima area excursion
  • Friday, May 17: HGC and joint rehearsals as needed
  • Saturday, May 18 morning: final rehearsals
  • Saturday, May 18 evening: Joint Concert at Hiroshima Jogakuin Gaines Hall ; Post-concert party, hosted by Music Brings Peace
  • Sunday, May 19: Dedication performance & mini concert at Hiroshima Nagarekawa church in the morning, free afternoon
  • Monday, May 20: Fly from Hiroshima to home, likely via Tokyo, arriving home the same day

TOUR EXTENSIONS - Details coming soon!

  • Pre-tour: 5 days 4 nights in Kyoto
  • Post-tour: 6 days 5 nights in Western Japan (stops are likely to include Iwakuni, Hagi pottery village, and Matsue)

DUES

  • $300 for Alumni in the class of 1999 and earlier
  • $100 for Alumni in the class of 2000 and later
  • $75 for companions

Your dues help cover costs for our conductor, rehearsal venue, welcome reception, music, and lunch for singers on the Saturday rehearsal in Cambridge. Companion dues help cover the costs for the welcome reception. Dues do not cover any travel expenses. Those prices will be advised as soon as they are finalized.

We also welcome donations to our Singers Fund to assist other singers with travel expenses. You'll find an option to do this in the "ticket" window, and the option to be contacted for more information in the registration survey.

Click "Get Tickets" to register and:

LONG MAY CONTINUE OUR UNITY AND JOY!

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Harvard Glee Club Alumni

ABOUT HARVARD GLEE CLUB ALUMNI

In 1949, G. Wallace “Woody” Woodworth, the conductor of the Harvard Glee Club, and his predecessor, Archibald T. “Doc” Davison, began discussions with several former members of the Glee Club regarding the formation of an organization to provide permanent financial support for the Glee Club. These discussions led to the formation of the Harvard Glee Club Foundation in December 1949, which is an independent Massachusetts nonprofit corporation governed by an elected Board of Directors. The name was changed to Harvard Glee Club Alumni in 2020.

MISSION

Harvard Glee Club Alumni connects our global community of alumni with each other and the Harvard Glee Club. We develop social and choral programming to further the enjoyment and support of the choral arts at Harvard and throughout our lives.

VISION

Harvard Glee Club Alumni is the official Alumni Association for the Harvard Glee Club. We champion a life-long relationship between the Harvard Glee Club and its alumni; provide the Harvard Glee Club with goodwill and financial support; and bring together alumni from around the world.

STAYING CONNECTED

Anyone who sang in the Harvard Glee Club while enrolled at Harvard is a member of Harvard Glee Club Alumni. We welcome all our alumni to participate in our programs, events and activities. Join our global community of over 1,600 alumni in keeping the glee, good humor, unity and joy alive for our generations and those to come.

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