Yale Glee Club

Event Information

Venue(s):
Young Men's Christian Association Hall

Performance Forces:
Vocal

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
8 February 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

10 Apr 1873, Evening

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Yale College Glee Club
2)
"Friar of orders grey"
aka Holy friar; Friar of olden time
Composer(s): Russell
3)
"Old mountain tree, The"
Composer(s): Clark [composer]
Text Author: Clark [composer]
4)
"Mary had a little lamb"
Composer(s): Traditional
5)
"Bingo jeet"
Composer(s): Unknown composer
6)
"Peter Gray"
Composer(s): Traditional
7)
Waltz, vocal, unidentified
Composer(s): Vogel

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 April 1873, 7.
2)
Review: New-York Daily Tribune, 11 April 1873, 5.

“Association Hall was well filled, last evening, with an audience that thoroughly appreciated the Glee Club of Yale College, who gave their long-promised concert. The programme was varied, comprising a number of characteristic songs peculiar to college manuals, which were received with marked satisfaction. A basso solo, ‘The Friar of Orders Gray,’ the quartette, ‘Old Mountain Tree,’ ‘Mary’s Lamb,’ and ‘Bingo,’ all earned a full share of applause. ‘Peter Grey’ was sung in a serio-comic style, and created much merriment. The entertainment closed with ‘Vogel’s Waltz’ by the entire Club. All of the classes at Yale were represented, the members of the Club being [lists names].”