The Harvard Glee Club’s free March 16 performance at Saint Vincent College has been canceled, due to travel restrictions for Harvard University students and faculty.
The Saint Vincent communications and public relations office shared this announcement from the club:
“Regretfully, the Harvard Glee Club announces that it will not be able to embark on its 2020 Heartland Tour. This announcement is the result of Harvard University administration’s preventative restrictions on domestic travel for students and faculty, placed in early March due to health and safety concerns surrounding COVID-19. These and similar restrictions have impacted student group travel, on-campus activities and day-to-day life across the University. The Glee Club is deeply grateful to its partners, collaborators, and all others in Ithaca, New York; Pittsburgh and Latrobe, Pennsylvania; Athens, Marion and London, Ohio; and Ann Arbor and Albion, Michigan; who provided support for the tour.”
“At present and per information available from the Pennsylvania Department of Health, there are no suspected or confirmed (coronavirus) cases at Saint Vincent College or in Latrobe, Pennsylvania,” Saint Vincent said in a release.
The choral group’s appearance at Saint Vincent was planned as part of a tour through New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan featuring a program of folk and college songs, as well as music by Schubert, Komitas, Palestrina, Rachmaninoff and others.
Founded in 1858, the Harvard Glee Club is the oldest collegiate chorus in the United States. The club comprises 65 Harvard undergraduate and graduate students from across the U.S. and abroad, few of whom are music majors or planning for music careers.
Andrew Clark, director of the glee club, is a Latrobe native.
