Musical Groups

The Chorus is open to Classes I to IV by audition, and it is not uncommon for its members to account for three quarters of the upper school. From among those, the Glee Club is drawn, limited to 75. Both groups rehearse during the academic day, and their repertoires include selections of sacred music, folk songs, musical theater pieces, and traditional songs for men’s chorus. The Glee Club collaborates annually with a girls’ chorus to perform a major choral work, including Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Schubert’s Mass in G, Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Mass in C Major, Rutter’s Requiem, and Brahm’s Ein Deutsches Requiem. The Glee Club also tours in the spring.

The Latonics, comprised of 15 singers selected from the Glee Club, perform more challenging a cappella music. They sing madrigals, motets, folk songs, and contemporary popular songs, often in original arrangements by group members. They have performed in Carnegie Hall, and regularly produce recordings.

Typically more than half of the boys in Classes V and VI comprise the Junior Chorus, after audition. Its repertoire includes three- and four-part arrangements, both accompanied and a cappella. The Junior Chorus rehearses twice a week, after lower school sports practices, and performs in December and April with the Glee Club.

Typically more than half of the boys in Classes V and VI comprise the Junior Chorus, after audition.

The Jazz Band and chamber music ensembles are for boys who demonstrate proficiency in instrumental performance. The Jazz Band rehearses once a week after sports practices and performs, as do chamber music ensembles, several times during the academic year.

Each term, by arrangement with the Director of Music, boys with special musical skills or talents perform in recital before the school. These performances often include chamber ensembles.