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Recordings by: Harvard Glee Club

The Harvard Glee Club is America’s oldest college chorus, and was founded in March 1858. For a detailed history of this influential group visit the Harvard Glee Club website.

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1953 – Harvard Glee Club

Chansons & Motets

Record Label in 1953 by # CRS-202
Performance Type Language Latin Verses vv. 1, 3, 5, 7 Duration 03:45
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Recording Medium / Mono, 10 inch vinyl, 33rpm
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“Chansons and Motets” – an album jointly released with the ladies of Radcliffe Choral Society – is the first known published recording of the Miserere by the Harvard Glee Club – America’s oldest collegiate glee club. Early recordings by the Harvard Glee Club are important, as they form a reference for Glee Club performance practice given the edition of the Miserere set for male voices by A. T. Davison, and published as part of the “Harvard University Glee Club Collection” by E C Schirmer Music Co in 1922.

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1958 – Harvard Glee Club

The Centennial Concert, Sanders Theatre, June 9, 1958

Record Label in 1958 by # TC-18
Performance Type Language Latin Verses vv. 1, 3, 5, 7 Duration Duration unknown
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Recording Medium / Mono
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A limited edition presented by the Harvard Glee Club, G. Wallace Woodworth, conducting, of the Centennial Concert recorded at Sanders Theatre June 9, 1958 (from the album cover).

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1961 – Harvard Glee Club

Des Prez: Missa Mater Patris et Filia

Record Label in 1961 by # LP 124
Performance Type Language Latin Verses vv. 1, 3, 5, 7 Duration 03:25
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Recording Medium / Mono
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The Davison (TTBB) arrangement of the Miserere is a poor second to Josquin’s ‘Missa Mater Patris et Filia’ included on Side One of this album, but the Miserere is unique in that it is presently the only know recording of the work made in The Philippines.

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