Hand in hand: the football concert with Yale and Harvard Glee Clubs

Friday, October 29
7:30pm
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall

View photos from the concert below
Photo credit: Andrew Wilkinson and Leigh Brigaud

For more than a century, choruses from Harvard, Princeton, and Yale Universities have celebrated their deep friendship with a season of collaborative concerts during the fall semester. Last year we continued to honor this tradition at a time of extraordinary change and challenge with a series of two virtual benefit concerts: Hand in Hand.

As the Princeton, Yale, and Harvard Glee Clubs returned to in-person activity and live performances this year, we were thrilled to present our third Hand in Hand concert on Friday, October 29, 2021. Each choir performed to a live audience in their home venue: Woolsey Hall at Yale, Richardson Auditorium at Princeton, and Harvard’s Sanders Theatre and the program was also simulcast to each venue as well as broadcast live online.

We encouraged our audition to make a donation to Save the Music, a national non-profit doing work for equity in music education whose grants support music programs in public schools in our local communities in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Jersey. If you'd like to make a donation, please do so here.

The program featured a vibrant and diverse array of choral works from across eras, cultures, and traditions in addition to recently composed works, and concluded with the beloved Football Song medleys from each school. The performance from Princeton featured two new choral projects extracted from the Glee Club’s membership - the ’Sea Shanty Choir’, performing music on a maritime theme, and ‘Alegría’, a group devoted to Latin American/Latinx choral music, conducted by the new Glee Club choral associate Mariana Corichi Gómez.