Morehouse College Glee Club Performs at the DC Public Library

For Immediate Release

March 3, 2011

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George Williams

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Morehouse College Glee Club Performs at the DC Public Library

WHO:             Morehouse College Glee Club and Quartet

WHAT:           Performs a free noon concert. 

WHERE:         Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Great Hall

901 G St. NW

Washington DC

WHEN:           Fri., March 18 12:00pm

            The Morehouse College Glee Club continues its tradition of musical excellence.  The Glee Club has shared the stage with opera great Jessye Norman, Natalie Cole, Stevie Wonder, Gloria Estefan, Trisha Yearwood, the Christian vocal jazz group Take 6, and soprano Indra Thomas.  They have performed have performed at such events as the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, Super Bowl XXVII, a concert of excerpts from “Porgy and Bess” with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and a premiere of  the work “Of Dreams and Other Possibilities” written by Patrice Rushen.   The Library performance will include spirituals, gospel and Yuroba selections. 

            Morehouse College is the only all-male historically black institution of higher learning in the United States.