University Glee Club of New York City - UGC

04/08/2026

Come be a part of history in the making… tickets on sale now! https://www.symphonyspace.org/events/vp-university-glee-club-of-nyc-concert

01/07/2026

Join us on Saturday, Jan. 10 at Lincoln Center! Ticket link in bio.

09/18/2025

The UGC mourns the loss of its brother-in-song, Grant R. Patrick, Amherst Class of 1977, UGC Class of 1981.

Grant R. Patrick, 70, of Westport, CT, passed away on September 14, 2025. Beloved husband, father, and friend.

06/17/2025

Great photos from a great evening!

04/23/2025

Happiest of birthdays to our Dear Ol' Conductor, the inimitable Francisco Núñez!

03/22/2025

Please join this zoom lecture about the life and career of our (and many other group’s) first conductor, Arthur Woodruff.

“Washington’s Arthur Woodruff and the Creation of Glee Clubs and Community Choruses in the Gilded Age” Lecture Virtual Program In this virtual lecture John Ong, past president of the University... Read more »

03/16/2025

100 years ago this month, the UGC, together with many of the region's glee clubs, joined together in a mass ensemble of over 800 voices to create the "Associated Glee Clubs of America" which gave its first concert at the old Metropolitan Opera House on March 31, 1925. Each piece performed was conducted by one the many conductors involved in the enterprise, including our own "Dear Old Conductor", Arthur Woodruff, who conducted the "Hunting Song" from Reginald De Koven's 1891 comic opera "Robin Hood". The concert was broadcast live over radio on WEAF, New York, and the recording was subsequently released on vinyl by Columbia Records, its first album ever to be electronically recorded.

The initiator of the project was conductor and composer Walter Damrosch (1862-1950), director of the New York Symphony Orchestra, and a pioneer in both mass choral conducting and classical music radio broadcasting. Participating choruses included the Apollo Club of Brooklyn, Banks Glee Club of New York, Friendly Sons Glee Club of New York, Glee Club of Nutley, Glee Club of the Oranges, Hartford Choral Society, Mendelssohn Glee Club of New York, Men's Glee Club of Mt. Vernon, Montclair Glee Club, Orpheus Club of Newark, Orpheus Club of Flushing, Singers' Club of New York, Summit Glee Club, University Glee Club of Brooklyn, and the UGC of NYC. (Arthur Woodruff was the conductor of several of these groups!)

At the link below you can hear the Associated Glee Club's rendering of our beloved "John Peel", performed at the debut 1925 concert and conducted by the arranger, Mark Andrews.

https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000144586/W98163-John_Peel #

12/28/2024

Tickets are on sale for our January concert at Alice Tully Hall with Harvard Glee Club and Ohio State University Men’s Glee Club! Link in bio.

10/18/2024

Save the dates for our 131st Season concerts:

Jan 11th at Lincoln Center/Alice Tully Hall with the Harvard Glee Club and the Ohio State University Men's Glee Club

May 17th at Jazz at Lincoln Center with Chanticleer

04/09/2024

Join us on May 11th at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall for our spring concert! We will be sharing the stage with the SoHarmoniums Women's Choir.

Tickets here: https://lincolncenter.org/venue/alice-tully-hall/spring-concert-choose-something-like-a-star

03/09/2024

Happy 130th birthday to the UGC!!