Glee Club will give Homecoming Concert Saturday in Sage Chapel

Professor Emeritus Thomas Sokol returns to direct the Glee Club, the group he led for 35 years.

The Cornell University Glee Club, under the direction of Professor Emeritus Thomas Sokol, presents its annual Homecoming Concert Saturday, Sept. 28, at 8 p.m. in Sage Chapel. The program features concert music for men's voices from the Renaissance and 20th century and closes with traditional Cornell songs. Highlights will include Allegri's Miserere, Poulenc's Quatre Petite Prieres de St. Francois d'Assise and Glee Club favorites Ride the Chariot and Biebl's Ave Maria. The Hangovers, a subset of the Glee Club, will perform one set of selections to round out the evening.

Admission to the Glee Club's Homecoming Concert is $10. Tickets are available at the Willard Straight Hall ticket office, through the Glee Club office at 255-3396 or web site http://www.gleeclub.com , or at the door.

The oldest student organization at Cornell, the Glee Club was founded in 1868 as the Orpheus Glee Club. Since then, the 70-voice male choir has performed on concert tours throughout the United States and in more than 20 countries, including China, Germany, Great Britain, the former Soviet Union and Japan.

Sokol returns to direct the Glee Club, which he led for 35 years, while director Scott Tucker is on leave this year.

Joining the Cornell faculty in 1957, Sokol served as director of choral music; department chair; conductor of the Glee Club, Chorus, Chorale, Chamber Singers and Sage Chapel Choir; and, since 1995, as professor emeritus.