By Anne W. Semmes
The full force of the world renown Yale Glee Club (YGC) filled the chancel of Christ Church Greenwich last Sunday afternoon. “We had about 300 people in attendance,” said YGC alum Clay Kaufman. “The Alumni Chorus included alumni spanning from the class of 2016 back to 1956.” And “Including the current Glee Club students, that meant that we covered the class of ’56 through the class of ’28 – over 72 years of Yale singing. It was so great to have the students and alumni sing three songs together at the end.”
There were those traditional Yale songs sung over the years. And “There was a song from the Philippines, where the YGC is headed on tour during Spring Break in March,” noted Kaufman. And surely au currant –with that hit Bob Dylan movie showing – the group sang “a relatively new arrangement of the Bob Dylan song, ‘The Times They Are A Changin.’”
“What a treat it was,” added Kaufman who sang with the Alumni Chorus, “and what a tribute to the opportunities music creates. After the concert, we held a singing dinner with over 130 people, giving alumni and students a chance for more camaraderie, after singing together on stage.”
