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Welcome to the website of the Varsity Men's Glee Club at the University of Illinois in Urbana/Champaign. Come back to this site often for updates on our program throughout the academic year.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

We have one more performance this year with the entire choral division. The annual
Carol Concert will be on Sunday, December 7th at 3pm in the Krannert Center for
the Performing Arts. Come support VMGC and the entire choral department in our
celebration of the winter season.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

DDay 2008

Hello and welcome to a brand new semester with The Varsity Men's Glee Club! We put an unintentional hiatus on blogging as we prepared for our annual Dad's Day concert. Rehearsal was intense, but it paid off. Among the songs we performed were:
  • Behold Man
  • The Choir Invisible
  • Danny Boy
  • Shenandoah
  • Amazing Grace
  • I Wish To Be Single
  • Cibola
As well as many more, including our standards: Big Ten, Brothers Sing On, Gaudeamus, and Illinois State Song. We also had some help from an excellent instrumental section that augmented our spiritual selections with their unique, jazzy style. In addition to the endless euphoria that is the jazz breakdown, our concert featured a politically charted, yet light-hearted, skit. With the masterful planning of our very own Case Carvell, the skit tactfully explored the foibles of the Glee Club presidential race.

Intermission was enhanced with an amazing slideshow of pictures from our European tour over the summer. Thanks to the diligent efforts of Kamron Kissamis, our intermission was a colorful collage of European adventure. We also had the help of masterful graphics designer and photographer extraordinaire, Mark Paik. Mark designed our poster for this year's concert:


Some of the interesting upcoming events we have include the Other Guys' Christmas Concert on December 6th at 8pm, in addition to the annual Carol Concert on December 7th at 1pm. Be sure to check back often, and we'll keep you posted about all our events! In addition, all of our events are posted to our official calendar: http://www.mensglee.org/calendar.php.
Coming soon to an Auditorium near you is the Other Guys' Christmas Concert!
The Other Guys are a rockin' eight member subset of VMGGC. Their concert will
be at Foellinger Auditorium on December 6th, 2008. Doors open at 7:30pm, show
starts at 8:00pm.

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