From the Morristown United Methodist Church:
Great Music on the Morristown Green is honored to present the renowned Morehouse College Glee Club in concert at 7 pm, Monday, March 20, 2023, at the Morristown United Methodist Church.
The all-male Glee Club, directed by Dr. David Morrow since 1987, was formed at Atlanta’s historically black Morehouse College in 1911. It has performed around the world and in every corner of the United States, as well as at President Jimmy Carter’s inauguration and at Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral.
Reverend King was an alumnus of Morehouse College and sang in the Glee Club as an undergraduate.
Video: The Morehouse Glee Club performs one of its signature works, Betelehemu:
The Morehouse Glee Club has performed with such music legends as “The Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin, Grammy Award-winning soprano Jessye Norman, mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, and recording artists Take 6.
It participated with Stevie Wonder, Gloria Estefan, and Trisha Yearwood in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Atlanta Olympic Games. The Glee Club performed the National Anthem with Natalie Cole for Super Bowl XXVIII and was featured in an American Family Insurance commercial with Grammy-winner Jennifer Hudson.
The group has made numerous recordings, and is featured on the soundtracks of School Daze, Miracle at St. Anna, and Red Hook Summer, films directed by Morehouse alumnus Spike Lee. Frequent collaborators with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Morehouse Glee Club recently joined both the Charlotte and Tallahassee Symphony Orchestras in performances of Joel Thompson’s powerful Seven Last Words of the Unarmed.
Tickets are $10-$40 and may be purchased here.
The Morristown United Methodist Church is at 50 S. Park Place.
