City Choir of Washington

The City Choir of Washington, an all volunteer professional level choir under the direction of Robert Shafer, artistic director, provides choral music at the highest artistic level. We want to create beauty with a vengeance through choral music to share with our audience in the concert hall and to underserved groups through our outreach chorus The City Singers.

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On November 11, 2018, on the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended what we now call World War I, the City Choir of Washington will present a special concert that will feature music by British composers who were all very deeply affected by the Great War. Hubert Parry's "Jerusalem" became an unofficial anthem during the war, and Parry himself would succumb to the Spanish flu in 1918. Also on the program will be two pieces -"A Farewell to Arms" and "In terra pax"- by Gerald Finzi who lost three siblings in the war. The highlight of the concert will be Ralph Vaughan Williams' stirring cantata, "Dona nobis pacem". [Grant us peace].

Thank you for supporting my fundraising campaign, Debra Wynn