The Fredösphere

The Whiffenpoofs are Yale University's oldest and best-known a cappella group.  On Saturday they put on a workshop for the Boychoir of Ann Arbor, of which my son, Der Drübermensch, is a member.  They sang wonderfully, and gave the boys lots of performance tips during a Q and A session. 

I was particularly impressed with the heft of their low bass section, which is typically disappointing in amateur groups.  The prestige of the group brings in top singers, in spite of the fact that they draw from a pool of only 6000 students.  (To this U-M grad, Yale seems a tiny school.)  Indeed, the Whiffenpoofs admit only senior men (thus, the entire personnel changes each year) so the pool is really only roughly half of one fourth of the whole student body:  maybe 750.



Here they are, singing the Whiffenpoofs Song.