Cornell University Chorus

Cornell University Chorus
Origin	Cornell University in Ithaca, New York
Genres	Choral, classical, etc.
Years active	1921–present
Associated acts	Cornell University Glee Club, After Eight
Website	www.cuchorus.com
Members	Director Robert Isaacs

The Cornell University Chorus was founded in 1921, initially as the Cornell Women's Glee Club. The Chorus is a sixty-member chorus for female voices, with repertoire including masses, motets, spirituals, classical, folk, 20th-century music, and traditional Cornell songs. Aside from its constantly changing and increasing selection of for women's voices, 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.

The Chorus performs annually during Convocation, Family Weekend, Senior Week, Commencement, and Reunions Weekend. In addition to the 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, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Philadelphia Academy of Music, and the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. 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 most recently Bach's Mass in B Minor and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra.

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