The Yale Whiffenpoofs Acappella Choir Shanghai Concert

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Shanghai Oriental Art Center - Oriental Concert Hall

425 Dingxiang Road Pudong Shanghai

Date:

3/29/2026

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The Yale Whiffenpoofs Acappella Choir Shanghai Concert

3/29/2026

Shanghai Oriental Art Center - Oriental Concert Hall

425 Dingxiang Road Pudong Shanghai

￥180 - ￥680

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THE WHIFFENPOOFS
AMERICA’S OLDEST COLLEGIATE A CAPPELLA GROUP

Every year, 14 senior Yale students are selected to be in the Whiffenpoofs, the world’s oldest and best-known collegiate a cappella group. Founded in 1909, the “Whiffs” began as a senior quartet that met weekly at Mory’s Temple Bar. Today, the group has become one of Yale’s most celebrated traditions. Singing a mixture of old Yale tunes, jazz standards, and other hits from across the decades, the Whiffenpoofs perform more than 200 concerts across six continents each year.

Programme

Aj lučka, lučka široká
Anything Goes - Cole Porter
I'm Gonna Find Another You - John Mayer
It Could Happen To You - Johnny Burke，Jimmy Van Heusen
Haven't Met You Yet - Michael Bublé
Jasmine Flower - Traditional Chinese Folk Song
River Lea - Adele Adkins，Brian Burton
The Boxer - Paul Simon
Dancing With a Stranger - Sam Smith，Normani，James Napier，Mikkel S. Eriksen，Tor Hermansen
Superstition - Stevie Wonder

- intermissioon -

Gotta Get You Into My Life - Paul McCartney
House of the Rising Sun
Nature Boy - Eden Ahbez
The Brightest Star in the Night Sky - Chinese Pop Melody
Midnight Train To Georgia - Jim Weatherly
River - Joni Mitchell
Moondance - Van Morrison
When The Saints Go Marching In

* All tracks have been adapted into a cappella versions by members of the Yale Whiffenpoofs a cappella choir

* The programme is subject to change

HISTORY
More than 100 years ago, on a frosty January night in New Haven, Connecticut, five of the Yale Glee Club’s best singers convened at Mory’s Temple Bar to escape the cold. Louis Linder, the tavern’s barkeep and a music aficionado, welcomed them in, beginning an institution that survives to this day.

Of those original five singers, four were members of the Glee Club’s prestigious Varsity Quartet, a group that sang together regularly at various alumni events. Unwilling to restrict themselves to performances at public functions, the group began to meet on a weekly basis at Mory’s, where they improvised harmonies to the songs they loved so well. These weekly meetings soon became a hallowed tradition amongst the singers.

As their fame on campus grew, the quintet began their search for a name. Denton ‘Goat’ Fowler, tickled by a joke featuring a mythical dragonfish named the Whiffenpoof, suggested the name to his companions, who found the name an apt reflection of the atmosphere of levity that accompanied the group’s gatherings. The word quickly caught on with the group’s admirers, and the name stuck.

In the years since, each generation of Whiffenpoofs have taken up the mantle of their forebears. For more than one century of songsters, the name, the song, and the weekly date at Mory’s have remained inviolate traditions that continue to bind us together.