Cornell University Chorus

Cornell University Chorus
Background information
Origin	Cornell University in Ithaca, New York
Genres	Choral, classical, and other genres
Years active	1920–present
Members	Director Joe Lerangis
Website	www.cuchorus.com

The Cornell University Chorus was founded at Cornell University in 1920 as the Cornell Women's Glee Club.^[1] The chorus is a 60-member treble choir with a repertoire that includes masses, motets, spirituals, classical, folk, 20th-century music, and traditional Cornell songs. The Chorus also performs major works with the Cornell University Glee Club such as Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Handel's Messiah, and Bach's Mass in B Minor and St Matthew Passion .

The Chorus performs annually during Convocation, First-Year Parents Weekend, Homecoming, Senior Week, Commencement, and Reunion Weekend. In addition to its concerts on campus, the Chorus also has experience in professional settings, working under the baton of Nadia Boulanger, Eugene Ormandy, Erich Leinsdorf, Michael Tilson Thomas, Julius Rudel, and Karel Husa on the stages of Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center in New York City, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, and the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, New York.

The Chorus has also been featured on two nationwide broadcasts. a special half hour on CBS Radio, and an appearance on PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour as part of an artistic feature on former director Susan Davenny Wyner. The Chorus has collaborated with world musician Samite of Uganda, participated in a production of Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light with Anonymous 4, and performed several major works with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, including Bach's Mass in B Minor, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, and Lili Boulanger's Du fond de l'abîme with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra.^{[citation needed]}