MEN's Glee Club
The MEN’S GLEE CLUB is one of the most active of the Naval Academy’s musical organizations and has achieved national prominence as one of America’s premier men’s choral ensembles. Network television appearances over the past decade include The Kennedy Center Honors (CBS), The Today Show (NBC), The Early Show (CBS), Christmas in Washington (NBC and TNT), and Good Morning, America (ABC). The ensemble has been seen performing in New York’s Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall, San Diego’s Copley Symphony Hall, and Washington’s Kennedy Center.
The ensemble has performed extensively throughout the U.S. and abroad including Chile, Argentina, and multiple European tours with performances at St. Peter's in the Vatican, cathedrals in Brussels, Wells, Winchester, Salisbury, and St. Paul’s in London. Performing masterpieces of choral-orchestral literature with many of the nation’s leading orchestras, the Men’s Glee Club’s collaborations include Winston-Salem Symphony, Portland Symphony, Boston Pops Orchestra, Charlotte Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Columbus Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, and the Dallas Symphony. Recent joint performances with the USNA Women’s Glee Club received rave reviews while collaborating with the Memphis Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, and the Rochester Philharmonic.
In addition to the Academy’s annually sold-out concerts of Handel’s Messiah with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, symphonic repertoire has included Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Requiems by Brahms, Dvorak, Mozart, and Verdi, Haydn’s Creation, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Orff’s Carmina Burana,, and Vaughan-Williams’ A Sea Symphony among many others. Notable appearances of the past decade include the Inaugural Concert “We Are One” performed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for a live audience of over half a million and an internationally televised audience, the dedication ceremony of the National Pentagon Memorial, the Commissioning of the George H. W. Bush Aircraft Carrier (CVN-77), concert tours of Georgia, Texas, California, Minnesota, Illinois, and Puerto Rico, a performance with Chanticleer, and a highly acclaimed concert at Carnegie Hall.
It is with honor, pride and distinction that the Men's Glee Club represents the United States, the Navy and Marine Corps, and the Naval Academy.