Brothers, Sing On!
Subtitle: My Half-Century Around The World With The Penn Glee Club
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: August 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780812238563
Subjects: Travel writing; Philadelphia; Instruction & Study - Voice; Glee club; University of Pennsylvania; Education; Music/Songbooks; Pennsylvania; History; USA; Men's choral societies; General; United States - State & Local - General; Higher; 1927-; Montgomery, Bruce,
First sentence: EVERY BOOK must begin somewhere, and I suppose my grand debut on the stage of Philadelphia's great opera house, the Academy of Music, is as good a place to start as any.
Description: "In 1862, a group of undergraduates at the University of Pennsylvania put the University's colors of red and blue in their buttonholes and gave the first performance of the University of Pennsylvania Glee Club. Ninety-four years later, in 1956, Bruce Montgomery became the Glee Club's director and brought the Club to new heights of musicianship and international acclaim. In his forty-four-year tenure, "Monty" made the Glee Club the premier musical voice of the University and brought Penn and the spirit of Philadelphia to audiences around the world."

"The Glee Club has performed on five continents in thirty countries and countless times in Philadelphia. In Brothers, Sing On! Monty shares his stories and experiences. From an impromptu photo op on a Wisconsin highway during a blizzard in 1977 to singing for U.S. presidents, this memoir is filled with the Glee Club's farflung adventures. Backstage anecdotes let the reader step behind the scenes of performances at home, abroad, and on worldwide television."

"This volume also includes stories of the students with whom the Glee Club director worked in other clubs - the Penn Singers, the Marching Band, the Penn Players, and the Mask & Wig Club, to name a few. Throughout his memoir, Montgomery reflects fondly on the development of the Glee Club. It is a testament to his immeasurable contribution to its success and renown."--Jacket.