The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus

The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus
Background information
Also known asThe SOBs
OriginYale University, New Haven, CT
GenresA cappella, choral, barbershop music, comedy music
Years active1938–present
MembersBacchus
Saagar Motupally '25
Orpheus (Musical Director)
Eunice Oh '26

Adam Černy '26


Tenor I
Avalon Scarola '24+1
Stephen McNulty '25
Gabby Seidel '25
Eunice Oh '26
Montana Dickerson '27
Katrin Marinova '27
Grace O'Grady '27

Tenor II
Josh Ellis '25
Sam Crumlish '25
Diego Bolanos '25
Felix Gong '26
Chris Tillen '27
Emma Wilmott '28
Adriana Zhou '28

Baritone
Bobby Xiao '25
Chaleb Lee '25
Adam Černy '26
Charlie Patton '27
Justin Wang '27
Hari Viswanathan '28

Bass
Saagar Motupally '25
Adam Levine '25
Zeamanuel Zeweldu '25
Apurva Mishra '26
Adam Bear '27
Huck Moore '28
Noah Lee '28

Websitehttp://www.yalesobs.com

The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus, also known as the SOBs, is an a cappella singing group from Yale University. Founded in 1938,[1] The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus is the second longest continuously running underclassmen a cappella group in the United States.[2] Alumni of the SOBs have gone on to be founding members of other college a cappella groups such as The Pitchforks of Duke University (Jeff Warren 1978) and The Chorallaries of MIT (David H. Bass 1975, also composer of their Engineer's Drinking Song).[3]

  1. ^ "Yale Extra Curricular Groups". Yale Office of Admissions. Archived from the original on May 1, 2013. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
  2. ^ "About". Yale Society of Orpheus and Bacchus. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
  3. ^ "School Mascots". The Tech. Retrieved August 21, 2013.