1953 – Harvard Glee Club
“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.