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32-571: The Glee Club is conducted by a member of the university faculty, and the work of running the organization has traditionally been divided between the director, the office manager, and a team of undergraduate student officers. The Glee Club's director generally holds a faculty position in the Yale School of Music as the Marshall Bartholomew Professor of Choral Conducting. A large part of the work of planning concert tours

64-533: A chamber orchestra, and attracted musicians of a high calibre including Dart, Iona Brown , Christopher Hogwood and Alan Loveday . Marriner recorded prolifically with the Academy. The first recordings in the early 1960s, with Marriner both conducting and playing lead violin, were successful, leading Pierre Monteux , then the LSO's conductor, to encourage Marriner to shift his focus to conducting. Marriner had studied

96-676: A grammar school), where he played in a jazz band with the composer Steve Race . He initially learned the violin as well as the piano from his father, and later studied the violin with Frederick Mountney. In 1939 he went to the Royal College of Music in London, where he studied with the violinist William Henry Reed and was able to play among the second violins of the London Symphony Orchestra , conducted by Henry Wood , because many of its members had joined up after

128-534: A pair of current Glee Clubbers. The position of Tour Co-Manager is the only Glee Club office that is not chosen by election; rather, the director and staff manager appoint tour managers based on their submission of a proposed itinerary. Prospective tour co-managers write their proposal and apply together. The Glee Club was one of the first U.S. college musical groups to tour abroad. International destinations of its many tours have included: Yale School of Music Yale School of Music (often abbreviated to YSM )

160-692: A professor of the Royal College of Music. In 1948 or 1949, he took up the position of second violinist of the Martin String Quartet, continuing to play with the quartet for 13 years. He had met the harpsichordist Thurston Dart while recuperating from kidney damage during the war, and they formed a duo together, which expanded to the Virtuoso String Trio with Peter Gibbs. These were the precursors to Dart's Jacobean Ensemble, in which Marriner played from 1951. He played

192-494: A suite from Die Schöpfung . BBC Radio 3 broadcast the concert as the climax of its Neville Marriner Day , with all its programmes devoted to his life, work and legacy. A month long centenary exhibition was held in the church. On 14 April BBC Four broadcast Sir Neville Marriner at the Proms: Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony , from 1983, and Sir Neville Marriner: Schubert's Symphony No 10 , from 1988, both with

224-545: Is done by student tour managers. Most members of the Glee Club are undergraduate students, but the group also admits students from the graduate and professional schools. Membership in the group is determined each fall by audition. Members of the group may be majors in any subject. Many members of the group are also involved in other musical pursuits on campus. The Glee Club typically consists of 70 to 90 student singers. When large-scale classical choral works require more voices,

256-473: Is one of the 12 professional schools at Yale University . It offers three graduate degrees: Master of Music (MM), Master of Musical Arts (MMA), and Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA), as well as a joint Bachelor of Arts—Master of Music program in conjunction with Yale College , a Certificate in Performance, and an artist diploma . Yale is the only Ivy League school with a separate school of music;

288-578: Is the most recorded of any orchestra and conductor. Marriner was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1979. He was created a Knight Bachelor in 1985. In 1990 the Hamburg -based Alfred Toepfer Foundation awarded Marriner its annual Shakespeare Prize in recognition of his life's work. In the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours , he was appointed a Member of the Order of

320-514: Is the most recorded of any orchestra and conductor. Marriner was married twice. His first wife was cellist (and later, antiquarian bookseller) Diana Carbutt , whom he married in 1949. They had two children - Susie, a writer and Andrew , a clarinettist who often worked with his father and who was the principal clarinet of the London Symphony Orchestra for many years. The first marriage was dissolved in 1956. His second wife

352-633: The Mozart selections for the soundtrack of the Oscar -winning 1984 film Amadeus ; it became one of the most popular classical music recordings of all time, selling over 6.5 million copies. Marriner's final recording was completed just a few days before his death, the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 with Yeol Eum Son as soloist. His partnership with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields

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384-642: The Wigmore Hall , the Royal Festival Hall and Lincoln Cathedral (the city of his birth). The Marriner 100 programme commenced on 15 April, the actual centenary day, with a concert at the orchestra’s spiritual home, St Martin-in-the-Fields, directed/conducted by leader Tomo Keller, music director Joshua Bell and former Academy flautist Jaime Martin , in which former members of the Academy Chorus, who had sung under Marriner, performed

416-443: The "Yale Glee Club Series." Bartholomew's successor, Fenno Heath, composed many original works and after 1970 rearranged many of his own and Bartholomew's pieces for mixed chorus when the Glee Club admitted women. David Connell continued the tradition of arranging pieces for the group, including madrigals and sea chanteys. Director Jeffrey Douma has also contributed his own arrangements to the Glee Club's library. Under his direction,

448-536: The 50 greatest conductors and another compilation ranks Marriner #14 of the 18 "Greatest and Most Famous Conductors of All Time". He founded the Academy of St Martin in the Fields , and his partnership with them is the most recorded of any orchestra and conductor. Marriner was born in Lincoln , England, the son of Herbert Marriner, a carpenter, and his wife Ethel (née Roberts). He was educated at Lincoln School (then

480-416: The Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields. On 15 April BBC Radio 3 broadcast "Neville Marriner Day". Described as "one of the world's greatest conductors", Gramophone lists Marriner as one of the 50 greatest conductors and another compilation ranks Marriner #14 of the 18 "Greatest and Most Famous Conductors of All Time". he founded the Academy of St Martin in the Fields , and his partnership with them

512-409: The Academy's repertoire to include Romantic and early-modern music. Marriner made over 600 recordings covering 2,000 different works – more than any conductor except Herbert von Karajan . He recorded for various labels, including Argo , L'Oiseau Lyre , Philips and EMI Classics . His recorded repertoire ranges from the baroque era to 20th-century British music, as well as opera. He supervised

544-606: The Companions of Honour (CH). He was appointed an officer of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres . His recordings of Mozart were honoured with two Gemeinde Awards from the Austrian Music Academy. Marriner won three Grammy Awards for his recordings of Haydn 's The Creation (1982), the soundtrack for Amadeus (1985) and violin concertos by Brahms and Stravinsky (2003). He also received

576-456: The Glee Club has appeared in performances guest conducted by David Willcocks , Krzysztof Penderecki , Sir Neville Marriner , and Helmuth Rilling . The Glee Club has regularly made domestic tours since 1866 and international concert tours since 1928. Domestic tours occur annually and international tours typically occur every two or three years. Touring has helped the Glee Club find a mission as "ambassadors of song." Today, tours are managed by

608-602: The Glee Club may team up with Yale's other choruses, the Yale Camerata and the Yale Schola Cantorum , or add other singers as needed. The Glee Club was initially composed of men only (since Yale College was only open to men). In 1969, Yale admitted its first female undergraduates, which led to the establishment of the Yale Women's Chorus. The following year, the Yale Women's Chorus was absorbed into

640-532: The Glee Club to form a mixed chorus. Despite the fact that a glee club is typically an all-male chorus, the organization elected to retain its name. Although the group was once open to students only after their first year of college, in 2003 the Glee Club began to include undergraduates from all four years. Several alumni of the group have gone on to professional careers in music, including Charles Ives , Douglas Moore , Cole Porter , John Stewart and Marshall Bartholomew , both of whom returned to Yale to conduct

672-592: The Glee Club. The Glee Club works with New Haven high school students each year as part of an annual choral festival. Outreach and service activities incorporated into tours were a central focus of the Glee Club's 2007 domestic tour to the Gulf Coast states. The Glee Club's annual Emerging Composers Competition encourages new works for mixed chorus, and the Fenno Heath Award encourages the creation of new Yale songs. Both competitions were inaugurated in

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704-464: The Yale School of Music in fall 2023. 41°18′35.5″N 72°55′35″W  /  41.309861°N 72.92639°W  / 41.309861; -72.92639 Neville Marriner Sir Neville Marriner , CH , CBE (15 April 1924 – 2 October 2016) was an English conductor and violinist. Described as "one of the world's greatest conductors", Gramophone lists Marriner as one of

736-560: The fall of 2005 with the world premieres of Laus Trinitati by Jocelyn Hagen and A Modern Toast to Yale by Zachary Sandler . The Glee Club has an alumni association, the Yale Glee Club Associates, which offers advice and financial support to the Glee Club. The YGCA has formed a chorus of its own called the Yale Alumni Chorus. This chorus gives alumni an opportunity to resume old friendships and enjoy

768-416: The old glees and the principal Yale songs. The Yale Glee Club has had seven directors since the appointment of its first faculty adviser: The group's fourth director, Marshall Bartholomew, encouraged the group to undertake more difficult and classical works, adding considerably to the group's repertoire. He created arrangements of many spirituals and folk songs, many published by the G. Schirmer company as

800-501: The oldest conductor of a Proms concert in 2014, aged 90. His obituary in The Telegraph praises the Academy of St Martin in the Fields' interpretations of baroque and classical music as "fresh, technically brilliant", and describes them as a "revelation". Marriner preferred modern instruments and effects, and his work came under criticism by Hogwood, among others, for not striving for an "authentic" sound. He later expanded

832-628: The outbreak of the Second World War . He joined up himself in 1941, serving in a reconnaissance role in the British Army , but was invalided out in 1943 with kidney problems. He returned to the Royal College, although Reed had died in the meantime. He then attended the Paris Conservatoire , where he studied with the violinist René Benedetti. Marriner was briefly a music teacher at Eton College . In 1948, he became

864-476: The songs of their Glee Club years while traveling and giving concerts in foreign countries. Like many of the old American college Glee Clubs, the Yale Glee Club began as a small association of students to sing glees . This tradition was continued for most of the 19th and early 20th century. Many of these original songs are maintained as part of the Glee Club's "Blue Book" ( Songs of Yale ), which contains

896-784: The subject with Monteux at his school in Hancock, Maine , in the United States, from around 1950. Marriner was the founder and first music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra , from 1969 to 1978. From 1979 to 1986, he was music director of the Minnesota Orchestra . He was principal conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1986 to 1989. Except for 1974 to 1980 during which Iona Brown

928-596: The university also has a separate Department of Music in the Division of Humanities of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences . The School of Music originated in 1855 with a gift of $ 5,000 from Joseph Battell and conferred its first degrees in 1894; it has a separate endowment, and as a result of a 2005 gift waives tuition and gives students maintenance grants. José García-León, formerly dean of academic affairs and assessment at Juilliard , succeeded Robert Blocker as dean of

960-594: The violin in two London orchestras: the Philharmonia Orchestra in the early 1950s, and the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), i.a. under Josef Krips , as principal second violin (1954–69). He also played with the chamber orchestras of Reginald Jacques and Boyd Neel , as well as the London Mozart Players . In 1958 he founded the Academy of St Martin in the Fields ; initially a twelve-member chamber ensemble, it soon expanded to

992-575: Was Elizabeth Mary "Molly" Sims, whom he married in 1957. He lived in London and in later life had a second home near Chardstock in Devon. Asked for an epitaph for his gravestone, he replied simply: "Follow the beat." Marriner died from heart failure on 2 October 2016, at the age of 92, at his home in London. In April 2024 the Academy marked the centenary of its founder’s birth with concerts in St Martin-in-the-Fields church,

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1024-536: Was the director, he remained the musical director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields until 2011, when he was succeeded by Joshua Bell , continuing to hold the title of Life President until his death. He also conducted many other orchestras, including the New York Chamber Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra , Israel Chamber Orchestra , Australian Chamber Orchestra and Vienna Philharmonic . He continued to conduct into his nineties, becoming

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