Harvard Glee Club plans free concert at Saint Vincent Basilica

The renowned Harvard Glee Club will present a free concert March 16 in Saint Vincent Basilica in Unity.

Beginning at 7:30 p.m., the performance will be a homecoming for director Andrew Clark, a Latrobe native. It will also be the local premiere of “Wall of Mirrors,” a new work by Pittsburgh composer Molly Joyce in tribute to the late Fred Rogers.

The choral group’s appearance at Saint Vincent is part of a tour through New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan in which it will sing folk and college songs, as well as music by Schubert, Komitas, Palestrina, Rachmaninoff and others.

Founded in 1858, the Harvard Glee Club is the oldest collegiate chorus in the United States. The club comprises 65 Harvard undergraduate and graduate students from across the U.S. and abroad, few of whom are music majors or planning for music careers.

Along with its annual tours across the U.S., the Glee Club regularly tours Europe, Asia, Australia and Canada. It has also frequently collaborated with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics. Several notable 20th-century composers have created works specifically for the club, including Virgil Thompson, Randall Thompson, Gustav Holst, Elliott Carter, Leonard Bernstein, Irving Fine, John Harbison and Toru Takemitsu, according to a release.

Clark has served as director of choral activities and senior lecturer of music at Harvard University since 2010. He is music director and conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Harvard Summer Chorus, and teaches courses in conducting, choral literature and music and disability studies in Harvard’s Department of Music.

He holds degrees from Wake Forest, Carnegie Mellon and Boston universities and lives in Medford, Mass., with his wife and daughters.

Although admission is free, reservations for the Saint Vincent concert are requested at https://hipaa.jotform.com/200416808203041.