[1] The Glee Club performs a varied repertoire of early, classical, and contemporary music in numerous engagements with other choruses, and with festival and symphonic Orchestras.
Carole Ann Maxwell, director of the Glee club at Fairfield University, is one of America's preeminent conductors of collegiate, community and professional choral ensembles.
In 2000, the Glee Club made an eight-day singing tour of Europe making appearances at "the Church of the Immaculate Conception (the Jesuit church in London, England) for the evening mass; The Alla Grande at the University of Maastricht in Maastricht, Netherlands, a medieval city surrounded by stone walls; and The Cologne Cathedral in Kohn, Germany, where the Glee Club’s a cappella performance reverberated throughout the Gothic stone structure.
[4] In celebration of its 60th anniversary in 2007,[5] the Fairfield University Glee Club premiered a commissioned work, Songs to the Lord of Peace, by renowned American composer, Gwyneth Walker.
The Mendelssohn Choir was formed in 1984 by Fairfield University Chamber Singers members, who, upon their graduation, wished to continue a musical association under the baton of Dr. Carole Ann Maxwell.