Tours
The Glee Club has regularly made domestic tours since 1866 and international concert tours since 1928. Domestic tours occur annually and international tours typically occur every two or three years. Touring has helped the Glee Club find a mission as "ambassadors of song."
Today, tours are managed by a pair of current Glee Clubbers. The position of Tour Co-Manager is the only Glee Club office that is not chosen by election; rather, the director and staff manager appoint tour managers based on their submission of a proposed itinerary. Prospective tour co-managers write their proposal and apply together.
The Glee Club was one of the first U.S. college musical groups to tour abroad. International destinations of its many tours have included:
- Seventeen tours of Europe, with the original 1928 tour retraced for the Glee Club's 150th Anniversary in 2011
- South and/or Central America in 1941, 1961, 1968, 1975, and 2009
- A "'Round-the-world" tour in 1965
- East Asia in 1996
- Bermuda or the Caribbean in 1930, 1951, 2000, and 2010
- Five countries in Africa in 2002
- New Zealand and Australia in 2005.
- Istanbul with the Yale Alumni Chorus in 2011
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