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Princeton University Orchestra and Glee Club Concert
Princeton University Orchestra and Glee Club presents a performance of Beethoven Symphony No. 9 and Bernstein Chichester Psalms. Directed by Gabriel Crouch and Michael Pratt.
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About Princeton University Orchestra
The Princeton University Orchestra was born in February 1896, with a concert by professional musicians. The modern history of PUO begins with the appointment of the orchestra’s present music director, Michael Pratt, in 1977. Through the fifties and sixties, the ensemble shrank down to as few as thirty students amid “music-is-better-seen-than-heard” mentalities in music academia, as well as insufficient rehearsal and performance spaces on campus. Following Pratt’s appointment to the orchestra’s podium, this downward trend quickly reversed itself into an upwards explosion. In 1984, the orchestra’s home, Alexander Hall, was renovated from a large auditorium into a professional-grade concert hall. Additionally, unprecedented interest in music performance among students, coupled with growth in the overall undergraduate class size and the development of Princeton’s dedicated extracurricular hours (two hours every weekday during which classes are forbidden from meeting), allowed PUO to quickly expand into the large symphonic orchestra of over 100 students that it remains today.
In response to students in the orchestra expressing a desire to continue as musicians after their studies at Princeton, Michael Pratt established the Music Department’s Certificate Program in Music Performance in 1990—now the Music Major or Minor in Performance-- and he was a major architect in the general integration of performance into Princeton’s wider curriculum. Undergraduates in the Music Major/Minor in Performance receive complementary lessons and are eligible to apply for a semester abroad to study at London’s Royal College of Music. The PUO is recognized nationally for its musical excellence, named in a recent independent survey as one of the top then college-age orchestras in the United States. Since 1994 PUO has been takimg international tours and has performed in London, Frankfurt, Madrid, Lisbon, Prague, Vienna, Munich, Bratislava, Krakow, Amsterdam, some of them multiple times.
About Glee Club
The Glee Club is the oldest and largest choir at Princeton University, and has for generations served as the ‘hub’ for singers at Princeton – in which like-minded students come together to explore musical passions and make lifelong friendships. The choir tours internationally on alternate years (at no cost to the students!), and has recently added northern Spain and South Africa to the list of stamps in the Glee Club passport. There are six major performances this coming season, and numerous special appearances at functions and gatherings around campus. The choir embraces a vast array of repertoire, from Renaissance motets and madrigals, Romantic partsongs, large choral-orchestral masterworks, and 21st century choral commissions to the more traditional Glee Club fare of spirituals, folk music, and college songs. The spectrum of Glee Club members is perhaps even broader: undergraduates and graduate students, scientists and poets, philosophers and economists – all walks of academic life are represented, knit together by their belief in the nobility and joy of singing together
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