Women's glee club
The United States Naval Academy WOMEN’S GLEE CLUB was founded in l976 when women first entered the Naval Academy. The ensemble performs a diverse repertoire which includes classical, sacred, folk, patriotic, popular, and Broadway music, and is highly acclaimed as one of the world’s premier women’s choral ensembles.
They have performed across America and internationally, including tours to Florida, California, Hawaii, New York, North and South Carolina, Illinois, Texas, Virginia, Rome, and London. In addition to the Academy’s annually sold-out concerts of Handel’s Messiah with the Annapolis Symphony (often nationally and internationally broadcast), the Women’s Glee Club performs masterpieces of choral-orchestral literature with the Naval Academy Men’s Glee Club. Recent repertoire has included Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Requiems by Brahms, Dvorak, Mozart and Verdi, Haydn’s Creation, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and Ralph Vaughan-Williams’ A Sea Symphony among many others.
Notable appearances include the Inaugural Concert “We Are One” performed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for a live audience of over half a million people and the Official National Dedication Ceremony of the Pentagon Memorial (9/11), an official visit to Brazil that was hailed as providing, “more positive results for the relations of both countries than that of a mighty aircraft carrier visit,” and a performance with James Taylor in Boston for the Commemoration of the JFK 50th Anniversary.
It is with honor, pride and distinction that the Women's Glee Club represents the United States, the Navy and Marine Corps, and the Naval Academy.