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Capitol Hill Chorale

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Also known as
  
CHC

Occupation(s)
  
Choir

Years active
  
1993–present

Genre
  
Classical music

Genres
  
Choral, Classical

Instruments
  
~100 voices

Website
  
Official Website

Origin
  
Washington, D.C., United States

Similar
  
City Choir of Washington, Zacharia Paliashvili, Stevan Stojanović Mokranjac, Choral Arts Society of Washington, Gay Men's Chorus of Washingt

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The Capitol Hill Chorale is a 100-voice volunteer mixed choir with members throughout the Capitol Hill and Washington, DC metropolitan area. Founded in 1993, the Chorale performs a principally classical repertoire with an emphasis on Eastern European liturgical works and early American song.

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In 2010, the chorale performed Zakaria Paliashvili's Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. The Liturgy, though written by a major Georgian composer, was suppressed under both the Tsarist and Soviet governments and largely lost. Its performance by the Capitol Hill Chorale was likely the first since the Bolshevik Revolution as well as its North American premiere, and this prompted Georgian Ambassador to the United States Batu Kutelia to invite the Chorale to perform the piece in Tblisi.

In 2014, the Chorale appointed Massachusetts-based choral composer Kevin Siegfried its first composer-in-residence. This collaboration resulted in several new works drawing on the American tradition, including settings of traditional Shaker songs and Sioux texts.

Songs

Litany After Cherubic Hymn2014
Alliluia - Glory to Thee - O Lord2014
Ts'midao Ghmerto2014

References

Capitol Hill Chorale Wikipedia