University of Pennsylvania Glee Club

At this concert, each man wore red and blue ribbons in his buttonhole, thus becoming the first known Penn group to wear the university colors as part of its uniform.

[citation needed] The Glee Club quickly became a part of campus life, singing at football rallies, basketball games, alumni events, and chapel services.

[3] In 1928, listeners could hear the club as far west as Nebraska in a broadcast publicizing the newly formed CBS Radio Network.

The club's partnership with this symphony came to include a 1938 performance of the Brahms' Alto Rhapsody with Marian Anderson and the 1970 world premiere broadcast of then-Director Bruce "Monty" Montgomery's Herodotus Fragments.

The club has also shared the stage with such superstars as Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Stewart, and Grace Kelly.

Each year, the Club writes and produces a fully staged, Broadway-style production, highlighting choral singing, clever[according to whom?]

The following is a complete list of the countries to which the Glee Club has traveled:[2] Established in 1964 "to bring a declaration of appreciation to an individual each year that has made a significant contribution to the world of music and helped to create a climate in which our talents may find valid expression.

[26] The Penn Pipers, a subset of the Glee Club,[27] formed in 1950,[28] making it the oldest existing a cappella group at the University of Pennsylvania.

Its founding student leaders created arrangements emulating the close, contemporary harmonies of a popular, jazz-oriented quartet called The Hi-Los.

The Pipers' most popular tune of the time—a lush setting of Brahm's Lullaby arranged by member Bill Tost—became its standard closing number for many years.