Penn Wood Grad Leads Harvard Glee Club

Directed by Jameson Marvin, the club comprises 48 male voices. Its repertoire includes the music of the Renaissance, folk songs, classical selections, light jazz and Harvard football songs.

"It's good music that people enjoy," Kerr said, adding that some of the program includes audience participation.

Many of the young men in the glee club are not music majors, Kerr said. ''There's a broad range of students from across the university."

Kerr, an education major, was a member of the Penn Wood band and choir, which helped him develop his musical skills, he said. He also sang in the Philadelphia Boys Choir for several years. "That's where I got my (voice) training," he said.

He graduated from Penn Wood in 1992.

In its Lansdowne concert, the glee club will perform works by Thomas Tallis, Franz Liszt, Randall Thompson, Nicolas Gombert and Robert Shaw, as well as a medley of football songs and the Harvard alma mater.

IF YOU GO

* The Harvard Glee Club will perform at 8 p.m. March 31 at the First Presbyterian Church of Lansdowne, Lansdowne and Greenwood Avenues. Doors open at 7:30. Admission is $8. Tickets can be bought in advance at the church office from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.