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...North American tour last summer, the Glee Club performed in 24 cities in the U.S. and Canada over an eight-week period. Traveling mainly by bus, the club gave 32 concerts before an estimated 60,000 people and spent $55,000, a figure that William M. Gorjance '79, summer tour manager, said "was a relatively low budget compared to other tours--I was conscious of transportation costs...
...work, no play, however. "We took half a day off on the Oregon Beach, and we saw Disneyland," Gorjance said. The group also stopped in at Yellowstone ("It snowed on us, can you believe it?"), and the Grand Canyon ("It really made the tour.") Midway through the tour, the Glee Club spent about a week in Southern California, where it performed in the open-air Hollywood Bowl under Mstislav Rostropovich and the Los Angeles Philharmonic...
...Glee Club's future plans include a tour down the coast to Florida over spring break. The group will sing seven concerts and one church service, according to Richard Kvam '79, club manager. April 13-15, the group will sponsor the Annual Festival of Men's Choruses, featuring the Glee Club and guest groups from the University of Illinois at Urbana and Union College in New York. David E. Wheadon '79, president of the Glee Club, said the club will release a record of Christmas songs in the near future. The club will not go on a major tour again...
...Glee Club is run by a six-man executive committee plus the conductor and the assistant conductor, Kvam said. Student managers and club executives estimate they spend up to 30 or 40 hours a week organizing and administering the group's activities. Members said the tradition of student management of the group is a vital part of the group's 121-year history...
...Glee Club executives estimate they accept about 15 per cent of the nearly 200 men who audition for the group every September. "Based on the rating the conductor gives the people that are trying out, the executive committee provisionally accepts a certain number of people from this audition pool," Wheadon said. The club then conducts a series of rehearsals and holds quartet trials, where candidates sing with old club members. Based on the second rating by the conductor, the executive committee makes final decisions on the choral hopefuls...