Artist description Each year fourteen Yale College seniors are tapped to be the Whiffenpoofs, one of the world's most widely traveled student music organizations.

Music Style A cappella

Artist History Ninety years of tradition back the Yale Whiffenpoofs, the oldest collegiate a cappella group in America. While a cappella singing has spread across the country, the Whiffenpoofs remain today the premier undergraduate men's chorus in the United States. The Whiffenpoofs have delighted audiences from New York to Hong Kong, from Yankee Stadium to the Champs-Elysees. Blending a love for performing with a professional commitment to quality music, the Whiffenpoofs bring a concert the history and class that belong to gentlemen songsters from America's most hallowed Ivy Halls. Some of the most important figures in American music history have been associated with the Whiffenpoofs: Cole Porter, Yale class of 1913 was a Whiffenpoof, Ella Fitzgerald was made an honorary member in 1979, and Louis Armstrong recorded his own original version of the Whiffenpoof Song.

Group Members Nathan R. Andersen, Joel S. Baden, Rodkangyil O. Danjuma, John M. Evans III, David J. Halpern, Benjamin J. Hansen, Francis O. Idehen, Benjamin H. Landswerk, Max Mednick, Nicholas Penfold, Adam Stein, Graham M. Stevens, R. Alex Torres, Evan J. Wels

Instruments Tenor 1, Tenor 2, Baritone, Bass

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Press Reviews " . . . The room was quiet. Five hundred people sat absolutely still, caught up in the sweet, pure sound of men's voices joined in a cappella singing . . . They were under the influence of the Whiffenpoofs in concert at the Wychmere Harbor Club, and true to the tradition 'the magic of their singing casts its spell'." -- Cape Cod Times "I wish to express my very great thanks to the Whiffenpoofs for their truly spectacular presentation . . . for the permanent representatives to the United Nations and their families. The performance by the Whiffenpoofs was truly outstanding, and my guests, both foreign and American, raved about the a cappella singing." -- Vernon A. Walters, United States representative to the United Nations.

Location New Haven, CT - USA

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