Contact:

Sarah Ray

802-443-5794

sray@middlebury.edu

Posted: February 27, 2002

MIDDLEBURY,

VT - The Morehouse Glee Club of Morehouse College in

Atlanta, Ga., will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March

16, at Mead Chapel on the Middlebury College campus. The

concert is free and open to the public.

The

Morehouse College Glee Club has a rich 90-year tradition of

musical excellence. It was officially founded in 1911, but

its origins date back to 1903. Its members, all of whom are

Morehouse College students, are from the United States,

Africa and the Caribbean. The group is visiting Middlebury

as part of its annual spring tour.

Over the

years, the glee club has performed at a number of notable

events and venues, including the funeral services of Dr.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Lincoln Center, Atlanta’s Symphony

Hall, the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter, Super Bowl

XXVIII, and the 1996 Olympic Games held in Atlanta. The

group has also toured Germany, Russia and Poland.

In the

spring of 1987, the glee club recorded “I’m Buildin’ Me a

Home,” arranged by former club member and 1972 Morehouse

graduate Uzee Brown Jr., for the soundtrack of Spike Lee’s

movie “School Daze.”

Since the

fall of 1987, David E. Morrow has served as the group’s

director. A 1980 valedictorian and Phi Beta Kappa graduate

of Morehouse College, Morrow earned his master’s degree at

the University of Michigan in 1981 and then returned to his

alma mater as a member of the music faculty and assistant

director of the glee club. In 1995, Morrow received a

doctorate of musical arts from the University of Cincinnati

College Conservatory of Music.

For more

information, contact Middlebury College Associate Dean

Marichal Gentry at 802-443-5382