Beautiful Rain
The Notre Dame Glee Club
Daniel Stowe, director

The Notre Dame Glee Club is a music tradition that began at the University in 1915. Since 1993, Daniel Stowe has led the Glee Club in world-wide tours with great success. 

Today, Glee Club repertoire is not just football songs, sea shanties and the alma mater theme. In recent years, the choir has been trimmed in numbers to 55 select singers, and their repertoire now focuses upon a wider range of styles: from German art songs, American spirituals, Russian Orthodox, Baroque and Renaissance sacred music, to Barbershop harmony and folk music from nations of the world. The Glee Club's versatility is showcased in the wide variety of genres on this disc.. The musicianship of the Glee Club is all the more remarkable when considering that the Glee Club is a volunteer ensemble, operating independently from music degree programs. Recorded in spring 2007, in the finely-tuned acoustic of Leighton Concert Hall in the newly-finished DiBartolo Performing Arts Center on the campus of University of Notre Dame.

Engineered and mastered with the vastly superior 2.82 million hertz sampling rate of multi-channel DSD® (Direct Stream Digital®), with application of technology by Zarex, the result is the ultimate audio experience in a stereo CD.

Rain, Rain, Beautiful Rain · Joseph Shabalala, arr. Steve Everett, et al.

SPIRITUALS
Sweep Clean Mary · arr. Uzee Brown Jr.
Daniel Saw the Stone · arr. Willie T. Johnson

Prayer of the Children · Kurt Bestor, arr. Andrea Klouse

THREE SONGS ­ Felix Mendelssohn
Abendstänchen, op. 75, no. 2
Trinklied, op. 75, no. 3
Der Jäger Abschied, op. 50, no. 2

RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH MUSIC
Duh Tvoy blagiy · Pavel Chesnokov
Slava v vishnih Bogu · Sergei Rachmaninoff

RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE SACRED MUSIC
Crucifixus · Antonio Lotti
Domine, non sum dignus · Tomás Luis de Victoria
Lamentations of Jeremiah, Part I · Thomas Tallis

FOLK SONGS
Down Among the Dead Men (England) · arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
Kpanlongo (Ghana) · arr. Derek Bermel
Tancuj, Tancuj (Czech Republic/Slovakia) · arr. Václav Kálik
Nicaragua, Nicaragüita · Carlos Mejía Godoy

SHANTIES
Whup! Jamboree · arr. Alice Parker / Robert Shaw
Tom's Gone to Hilo · arr. Alice Parker / Robert Shaw
Blow Ye Winds · arr. David Clark Isele
Lowlands · arr. Alice Parker / Robert Shaw
Bonnie Hielan Laddie · arr. Thomas Schreck
The Elements · Arthur Sullivan / Tom Lehrer

BARBERSHOP HARMONY
The Auctioneer · Van Dyke / Black, arr. Blackwell
I Used to Call Her Baby · Johnson-Roth-Hess, arr. Tom Gentry
Who's Sorry Now? / Someday · Snyder-Kalmar and Ruby / Hodges, arr. Fraser Brown
Coney Island Baby / We All Fall · Les Appleton/Goodwin-Meyer, arr. SPEBSQSA