Call Number:

003.019

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

0.21 linear ft. (1 volume)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Haverford College Glee Club scrapbook, 1921-1949 (HCQ.003.019) Quaker and Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

1921-1949 (inclusive)

Abstract:

The Haverford College Glee Club scrapbook, 1921-1949 contains programs, clippings, pictures related to the tours and performances of the Haverford College Glee Club throughout the span of years indicated in the collection title. Many of the collected materials are related to concerts that the club performed with musical groups from a slew of other schools and colleges in Haverford's immediate vicinity (Bryn Mawr College, The Baldwin School, The Shipley School, and the University of Pennsylvania) and throughout the country (Smith College, Sweet Briar College, Wellesly College, Goucher College, Wheaton College, and Mount Holyoke College, among others). The collection also includes a program from the November 1st and 2nd, 1957 recitals of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which featured the performance of a Bach cantata by a Three College Chorus comprised of singers from Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore.

The Haverford College Glee Club was founded in the fall of 1887 by students under the tutelage of Professor Frank Morley, the group's first instructor. Like other musical groups during Haverford's early years, the club received a cold reception from a Board of Managers which sustained the anti-aesthetic bias of the school's Quaker Founders, whose Puritanical opinion on music, that it was a frivolous pursuit and a distraction from a life of moral rectitude, deterred significantly from their otherwise liberal social views. In spite of resistance from adminstration (during those early years members were prohibitted from practicing on campus) the Glee Club cemented its presence on campus thanks to the success of its performances.

The Haverford College Glee Club scrapbook, 1921-1949 contains programs, clippings, pictures related to the tours and performances of the Haverford College Glee Club throughout the span of years indicated in the collection title. All materials were arranged by the creator in chronological order throughout the pages of the scrapbook.

Arrangement dictated by the creator.