Talk:Show choir

Glee club: merge

I know that there will be major objections but IMHO, Glee club should be merged into this one. Granted the term glee club is no longer as popular and the style of performance in the older glee clubs is different in a lot of ways from the contemporary show choirs. Nevertheless, modern show choirs are an evolution of the old glee clubs and the difference between the two is really more indicative of a spectrum of styles than two completely separate topics. IMHO there is not enough of a distinction to justify two separate articles (currently Glee club is a very short stub).

--192.88.168.1 (talk) 04:45, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

At the college level, glee club is a distinctly different activity, usually unisex. Some of the confusion with glee clubs and show choir was due to the television series "Glee" which for some obscure reason called their show choir a glee club. College men’s glee clubs are a very strong tradition in the American Midwest and on the East Coast. There is a traditional body of music sung by male glee clubs with “Brothers Sing On" by Edvard Grieg as a song normally in the repertoire of every group. College men’s glee clubs are often extracurricular activities and many have traditions that in some cases go back a century or more. Unlike show choir, glee clubs often sing mostly a capella, or with just piano accompaniment. Some colleges, such as St. Olaf College and Millikin University have a men's chorus as a curricular freshman musical group feeding into choirs but these are distinctly different than glee clubs.

Some notable college glee clubs include the University of Illinois Varsity Men’s Glee Club, the Purdue Varsity Glee Club, the Notre Dame Glee Club, the Rutgers University Glee Club, the United States Naval Academy Men’s Glee Club, the Yale Glee Club, the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club, the Harvard Glee Club, the University of Pennsylvania Glee Club, and the Morehouse College Glee Club. The fact that many of these groups are sufficiently notable to warrant their own Wikipedia article should make it clear why Glee Club needs to continue to be a separate article. (I love show choirs but to the best of my knowledge there are none of sufficient notability to warrant a Wikipedia article.) Since the Glee Club article is rated “start-quality”, when I have time I will expand it to reflect the American collegiate glee club tradition.

—- Ray Trygstad (talk) 19:48, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

Value of show choir participation in college applications

While participation in a show choir may have value in college applications, the article presents no evidence to support this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.1.70.245 (talk) 19:20, 30 July 2016 (UTC)

Popularity - David Mollenkamp

So I’m not particularly well versed in this person’s works, but it seems strange that he’s featured so prominently here. This person works with a high school show choir right? So why is he featured prominently in the popularity page above all others? It seems like this part shouldn’t be in here. I already took out a party about him “inventing show choir”. I just want record of why I’m doing any future edits and to voice my concern. I’ll probably remove it since there’s not any citations either (and I can’t find any to put on there). Jacob Bacus (talk) 06:51, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

I removed the section. I just can’t see any justifiable reason for it being in there. Jacob Bacus (talk) 06:54, 29 July 2022 (UTC)