The concept which has been widely spread through the 2009 TV show has now come to City College in the form of its very own club.

“It’s not a requirement to be a ‘Glee‘ fan to be in the club,” Glee Club founder and President Myron Aguilar laughed. “This one hasn’t watched an episode,” he said, smiling at one of the members.

Aguilar, 19, is a Music and Psychology major at City College. This semester he decided to form a club to make music education and performance more on the students’ conditions.

“I realized that I was in classes where teachers were putting their repertoires out and we didn’t really have a say,” Aguilar said. “So James [Watson] signed on as the faculty advisor and we went for it.”

To officially form the club, Aguilar had to get it approved by the Student Life council, which he described as very easy. Shortly thereafter, the club started attracting members.

“We have a good amount of people and we sound good,” Aguilar said. “But there’s very little dancing involved at this point.”

James Watson is the Music Department Aide and teaches Fundamentals of Music Techniques at City College. He volunteered as the Glee Club advisor and said he can already see progress.

“There’s a core group of people and they are sort of the glue,” he said.

That group consists of around 10 people, whereas the rest fluctuates depending on who can make it to rehearsal.

“It’s a small club but it’s going,” he said. “They’re getting stronger every week.”

Watson said the glee genre is generally dealing with modern pop tunes that aren’t necessarily done in other ensembles on campus.

“It’s modern pop done A capella,” he said. “But it doesn’t mean we can’t do instruments. We might have someone playing piano or someone playing guitar and that’s about it.”

The club meets Monday and Tuesday afternoons, which was decided to fit as many schedules as possible. If anyone is interested in joining, “just show up at the rehearsal and we’ll get them in as soon as possible,” Watson said.

One member who can only make it on Tuesdays is Marissa Muraoka, 20. She was excited about the performance part of the club and decided to give it a shot.

“It’s a nice place to come and meet and perform,” she said. “That’s what we all love to do.”

For now, the members are aiming to perform at open mic salons at the music department on March 18 and May 6, and they decided to rehearse the classic “Stand by me” by Ben E. King.

They also collaborate with the Dance Club and hope to do “Christmas stuff” later on, such as caroling. However, they have a far less tranquil long-term goal.

“Our main goal is to do a flash mob,” Aguilar said. For that performance he hopes to have more dancers and musicians in the club, as well as more base among the vocalists seeing that the majority are girls.

“I’m totally excited about that,” Muraoka added.

“People will be singing and dancing… and once the music stops,” Aguilar continued, “they all turn around and walk away as if nothing happened.”

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