Glee Club in the 1920 Corks and Curls
The 1919-1920 season of the Virginia Glee Club saw the formation of the Glee Club Jazz Orchestra. Officers included William S. Thomas, president; Robert Gilliam Butcher, vice president;[1] Bernard Peyton Chamberlain, business manager; Robert Allen Gibbons, assistant business manager; Robert Iverson Boswell, stage manager; John Hosack Koch, assistant stage manager; and Thomas Claude Durham, Jr., property manager. Kirk Payne was the director.[2]
The Club got off to a slow start, with no director identified as of October 1919;[3] ultimately Kirk Payne directed the performances of the season. By January 1920, the Club was preparing to mount a variety performance in Lynchburg.[4] The group performed in Roanoke in February 1920.[5] In April 1920, the group took a tour through the western part of Virginia and West Virginia, including stops at Hot Springs, VA, White Sulphur Springs (the Greenbriar), Charleston and Huntington, West Virginia.[6][7]
Concerts and Tours[]
- Concert in Lynchburg (1920)
- Concert in Roanoke (1920)
- Concert in Staunton (1920)
- Concert in Richmond (1920)
- Concerts in Suffolk and Petersburg (1920)
- Concert at Sweetbriar (1920)
- Spring Concert (1920)
- Concert in Lynchburg (1920)
- Concert in Culpeper (April 1920)
- Tour of the Virginias (1920)
Roster[]
First tenors: B.T. Moore, H.C. Ross, Fred B. Greear, K.L. Simons, G.D. Cooper, Micah Jenkins, John Wesley Wright
Second tenors: M.H. Lynn, J.A. McAllister, Elijah Fletcher Kahle, A.N. Roberts, William Albert McGregor, A.W. Parker
First basses: Robert Allen Gibbons, William S. Thomas, Holland Evant Persinger, Jere Malcolm Harris Willis, Allison Everhart Palmer, W.M. Camp
Second basses: B. King, George Coleman Reedy, William F. Cox, Henry Jefferson Lawrence, Robert I. Boswell, H.D. Thompson
References[]
- ↑ "Glee Club Election". College Topics: p. 5. 1919-03-01. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QQwtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=umkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1565,6146318&dq=glee-club&hl=en.
- ↑ Corks and Curls. 1920. p. 277. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2251117/view#openLayer/uva-lib:2206383/3181/2513/1/0/0.
- ↑ "Glee Club Try-Outs". College Topics. 1919-10-08. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fQwtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=umkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2778,6268267&dq=glee-club&hl=en.
- ↑ "Glee and Mandolin Club to Give First Show on January 30". College Topics: p. 1. 1920-01-14. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7A0tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KX8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5524,53079&dq=glee-club&hl=en.
- ↑ "Glee Club Delights Audience in Roanoke Last Saturday Night". College Topics: p. 1. 1920-02-04. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6g0tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KX8EAAAAIBAJ&dq=glee-club&pg=5457%2C299629.
- ↑ "Glee Club Returns from Western Tour Yesterday". College Topics: p. 1. 1920-04-17. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7w0tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KX8EAAAAIBAJ&dq=glee-club&pg=5344%2C1005088.
- ↑ "Glee Club Scores with "Nothing"". University of Virginia Alumni News: p. 180. March 1920. http://books.google.com/books?id=XdxKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA116&dq=%22university+of+virginia%22+%22glee+club%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cK12Uc7LDMfy0QG8hICgAg&ved=0CF8Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22university%20of%20virginia%22%20%22glee%20club%22&f=false.
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