TIME AND CHANGE:
THE YALE GLEE CLUB GOES CO-ED
Three-part Podcast Series
Part 1: Yale admits women during turbulent times
Part 2: The Glee Club becomes a co-ed group
Part 3: Fifty years of co-ed Glee Club singing
When the first undergraduate women arrived at Yale in 1969, the Glee Club’s transition from all-male to mixed-voice ensemble was not a foregone conclusion. Thanks to the perseverance of those women, the enterprising student managers of the Glee Club’s 1970 European tour, and the dedication of Glee Club director Fenno Heath, by the next academic year, the Glee Club had definitively “gone co-ed.”
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of co-ed undergraduate singing, the Yale Glee Club Associates commissioned Time and Change, a three-part podcast about the transformation of the Glee Club and the University. The story is told by two dozen of the people who lived it – and by music from eight decades of Glee Club recordings.
Watch the companion film, A Home in Hendrie Hall.
PART 1
MUSIC
Bright College Years (Carl Wilhelm, arr. Thomas C. Duffy): 2014 live recording, courtesy of the Yale Band
[Yale Concert Band, Thomas C. Duffy, Music Director]
‘Neath the Elms (arr. Jonathan Clune, 1974): SATB Yale Glee Club, 1975 LP
Here’s to Good old Yale (Drink it Down): TTBB Yale Glee Club *Favorite Songs of Yale LP
Fa una canzone (Orazio Vecchi): SATB Yale Glee Club, 1973 LP
A Song for Old Yale (Thomas G. Shepard): TTBB Yale Glee Club *Favorite Songs of Yale LP
We’re Saving Ourselves for Yale (David Lippincott, 1949): Whiffenpoofs of 1962
Medley of Yale Songs: Yale Banjo Club *Favorite Songs of Yale LP
Concert Medley of Yale Songs: Yale University Band *Favorite Songs of Yale LP
Bandolero (arr. Fenno Heath, 1950): TTBB Yale Glee Club *Favorite Songs of Yale LP
Daddy is a Yale Man (David Lippincott): Whiffenpoofs *Favorite Songs of Yale LP
Wake, Freshmen, Wake (arr. Fenno Heath): TTBB Yale Glee Club *Favorite Songs of Yale LP
De Animals A-Comin’ (arr. Marshall Bartholomew, Yale S.S.S. 1907): TTBB Yale Glee Club **Columbia Presents LP
Whiffenpoof Song: Whiffenpoofs of 1969
Shall I, Wasting in Despair? (arr. Fenno Heath): Whiffenpoofs of 1942
In That Great Gettin’ Up Mornin’ (arr. Fenno Heath): SATB Yale Glee Club, 1973 LP
[Steve Davis, bass]
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night (Fenno Heath): TTTB Yale Glee Club, 1970 LP
Six Chansons: “Puisque tout passe” (Paul Hindemith): SATB Yale Glee Club, 1973 LP
INTERVIEWEES
Darcy Walker, 1971
Charly Gates, 1970
Laurie Hasselmann Ongley, 1981
Fenno Heath, 1950
Bob Bonds, 1971
Joanne Wible-Kant, 1973
Sam Chauncey, 1957
Ellen Marshall, 1971
Sarah Heath, 1973
Linus Travers, 1958
Patricia Williams, 1973
PART 2
MUSIC
City Song (Lewis Spratlan, 1962): SATB Yale Glee Club and alumni, 150th Reunion CD
[Raymond Nagem, organ; Justin Jee, piano]
Ständchen (Franz Schubert): SSAA Yale Glee Club women, 1979 LP
[Elaine Valby, soprano]
Tarantella (Randall Thompson): TTBB 1955 Yale Glee Club, ***Louder Yet the Chorus Raise
[Thomas Griswold, piano]
The Creation: “Awake the Harp” (Joseph Haydn): SATB 2009 Yale Glee Club, ***Louder Yet the Chorus Raise
[Yale Symphony Orchestra – Jeffrey Douma, conductor]
Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho: The New Blue, 1970 LP “Since You Asked”
In the Mood (Wingy Manone/Glenn Miller, arr. Bruce Rosenblum, 1975): Proof of the Pudding LP “Here’s Proof”
A Ceremony of Carols “As Dew in Aprille” (Benjamin Britten): SSA Yale Women’s Glee Club, 1970 LP
[Vivian Perlis, harp]
Aura Lee (arr. Fenno Heath): TTBB Yale Glee Club *Favorite Songs of Yale LP
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight (Fenno Heath): TTBB Yale Glee Club, ****1959 Wigmore Hall concert
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight (Fenno Heath): SATB Yale Glee Club, 1985 LP
[Charles Goldbeck, piano]
Ca’ the Yowes (arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams): SATB Yale Glee Club, 1979 LP
The Ed Sullivan Show: Ed Sullivan introduction and Football Medley opening, TTBB Yale Glee Club 1969
A Ceremony of Carols “Wolcum Yole” (Benjamin Britten): SSA Yale Women’s Glee Club, 1970 LP
[Vivian Perlis, harp]
Carmen “Toreador Song” (Georges Bizet): SATB 1969 Yale Glee Club and Yale Women’s Chorus
[Yale Symphony Orchestra – John Mauceri, conductor]
O vos omnes (Tomás Luis de Victoria): SATB Yale Glee Club, 1975 LP
Repleti sunt omnes (Jacob Handl): TTBB Yale Glee Club, 1970 LP
Six Chansons: “La biche” (Paul Hindemith): SATB Yale Glee Club, 1973 LP
Crucifixus (Antonio Lotti): Yale Glee Club, SATB 1975 LP
Football Medley (arr. Fenno Heath): Yale Glee Club, SATB 1973 LP
A Ceremony of Carols “Deo Gracias” (Benjamin Britten): SSA Yale Women’s Glee Club, 1970 LP
[Vivian Perlis, harp]
Alleluia (Randall Thompson): Yale Glee Club, SATB 1970 LP
INTERVIEWEES
Lewis Spratlan, 1962
Fenno Heath, 1950
Sam Chauncey, 1957
Ellen Marshall, 1971
Sarah Heath, 1973
Bob Bonds, 1971
Charly Gates, 1970
Maggie Rogow, 1972
Joanne Wible-Kant, 1973
PART 3
MUSIC
Switzer Boy (arr. Gustave J. Stoeckel): SATB Yale Glee Club, 1985 LP
[Melissa Doran, Jonathan Babbitt , C. David Benson yodelers]
Eli Yale (arr. Fenno Heath): SATB Yale Glee Club and YGC alumni, 150th Reunion CD
[Emily Howell]
Eli Yale (arr. Fenno Heath): SATB Yale Glee Club, 1994 CD
[Derek Ludwin; Kirsten Strotz]
Football Medley: TTBB Yale Glee Club and Yale Band, *Favorite Songs of Yale LP
Bright College Years (arr. Marshall Bartholomew): TTBB Yale Glee Club, *Favorite Songs of Yale LP
Bright College Years (arr. Robert Bonds, 1971): SATB Yale Glee Club, 1985 LP
Brothers, Sing On! (Edvard Grieg): TTBB Yale Glee Club, ****1959 Wigmore Hall concert
Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf (Johann Sebastian Bach): SATB Yale Glee Club, 1985 LP
O Heiland, reiss die Himmel auf (Johannes Brahms): Yale Glee Club, SATB 1973 LP
Six Chansons: “En hiver” (Paul Hindemith): Yale Glee Club, SATB 1973 LP
The Lamb (Fenno Heath): SATB 1991 Yale Glee Club, ***Louder Yet the Chorus Raise
Fern Hill (Fenno Heath): SATB 1991 Yale Glee Club, Fenno Heath Choral Works Concert
Sometimes I Feel (arr. Fenno Heath): TTBB 1959 Yale Glee Club, ***Louder Yet the Chorus Raise
Sometimes I Feel (arr. Fenno Heath): SATB YGC alumni, 150th Reunion CD
Ride the Chariot (arr. William Henry Smith): SATB Yale Glee Club, 1985 LP
[Sonya Baker, soprano]
Away to Rio! (arr. Marshall Bartholomew): TTBB 1941 Yale Glee Club, ***Louder Yet the Chorus Raise
Hodie Christus natus est (Francis Poulenc): SATB Yale Glee Club, 1985 LP
Gaudeamus igitur: SATB Yale Glee Club, 150th Reunion CD
Anything Cole (Cole Porter, 1903, arr. Buryl Red, 1961 Mus.): SATB Yale Alumni Chorus, 2001 *****Red Hot & Blue CD
[Naomi Lewin, mezzo-soprano; John Rouse, tenor; Susan Olenwine, piano]
Humble (arr. Marshall Bartholomew): TTBB 1947 Yale Glee Club, ***Louder Yet the Chorus Raise
Mother of Men (Seth Bingham, 1904): TTBB Yale Glee Club *Favorite Songs of Yale LP
We Meet Again Tonight: TTBB Yale Glee Club *Favorite Songs of Yale LP
We Meet Again Tonight (arr. Fenno Heath): SATB Yale Glee Club, 1994 CD
Ain’-a That Good News! (arr. William Dawson): SATB Yale Glee Club, 1979 LP
Shenandoah (arr. Marshall Bartholomew/Fenno Heath): SATB Yale Glee Club, 1991 CD
O magnum mysterium (Giovanni Gabrieli): SATB Yale Glee Club, 1979 LP
This Train (arr. Fenno Heath): SATB Yale Glee Club, 1985 LP
Amici (H.S. Thompson): TTBB Yale Glee Club *Favorite Songs of Yale LP
Peaceable Kingdom: “Have ye not heard?”/”Ye shall have a song” (Randall Thompson): SATB Yale Glee Club, 2010-11 CD
Symphony #2 “Resurrection” (Gustav Mahler): SATB 1971 Yale Glee Club (courtesy of Yale Symphony Orchestra)
[Yale Symphony Orchestra – John Mauceri, conductor; Judith Fay, soprano; Joy Zornig, mezzo-soprano]
INTERVIEWEES
Patricia Williams, 1973
Ellen Marshall, 1971
Bob Bonds, 1971
Cherry Whitcomb Westerman, 1973
Mark Alberta, 1972
Linus Travers, 1958
Fenno Heath, 1950
Sarah Heath, 1973
Sarah Mead, 1975
Sam Weisman, 1969
Patricia Williams, 1973
Ray Wells, 1975
Joanne Wible-Kant, 1973
Tracey Ober, 1985
Karen Sherman, 1988
Jeffrey Douma, Director, Yale Glee Club
Laurie Hasselmann Ongley, 1981
Marty Brennan, 1987
Charly Gates, 1970
Darcy Walker, 1971
Julian Manresa, 2022
Unless noted with asterisks, all music is from Yale Glee Club recordings issued in the year indicated.
Asterisked recordings:
*Favorite Songs of Yale LP issued 1964 by Carillon
**Columbia Presents the Yale Glee Club LP issued 1941 by Columbia, reissued 1950
***”Louder Yet the Chorus Raise!” An Illustrated History of the Yale Glee Club 2-CD set with book, 2011
(Timothy J. DeWerff, 1992)
****1959 Yale Glee Club concert at Wigmore Hall, London (courtesy of Yale Historical Sound Recordings)
*****Red Hot & Blue: American Musical Fireworks Celebrating the Tercentennial of Yale University at the 55th International Musical Eisteddfod in Llangollen, Wales CD issued 2001
Credits
Producer: Naomi Lewin, 1974
Co-Producer: Miriam Lewin, 1980
Student Producer: Julian Manresa, 2022
Recording Engineers: Bill Siegmund/Digital Island Sound, Esy Casey
Yale Glee Club: Jeffrey Douma, Director; T. Sean Maher, Operations and Production Manager
Yale Glee Club Associates: Rémie Christ, Project Coordinator; Marty Brennan, James Ford, Sarah Heath, Stephanie Tubiolo, Carol Yeh, Project Committee
Recordings provided by Yale Glee Club and Marty Brennan, Roy Byrd, Sarah Heath, Tracey Ober, Laurie Hasselmann Ongley, Stowe Phelps, and Ray Wells
Additional recordings courtesy of Stephanie Hubbard, Yale Bands; Brian Robinson, Yale Symphony Orchestra; Patricia Williams,for The New Blue; John Burke for The Whiffenpoofs; Proof of the Pudding; Jonathan Manton, Historical Sound Recordings, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Yale University Library
© 2019 Yale Glee Club