The Capitol Hill Chorale is a 100-voice volunteer mixed choir with members throughout the

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metropolitan area.Fundraiser helps the Capitol Hill Chorale make music
''Washington Post'', Capitol Business, Monday, May 24, 2010. Founded in 1993, the Chorale performs a principally classical repertoire with an emphasis on Eastern European liturgical worksOur Choral Capitol
''The Kojo Nnamdi Show'', WAMU 88.5 Radio, Washington, December 9, 2010. and early American song. In 2010, the chorale performed Zakaria Paliashvili's Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. The Liturgy, though written by a major

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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

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as well as its North American premiere, and this prompted Georgian Ambassador to the United States to invite the Chorale to perform the piece in

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Forgotten Work By Master Georgian Composer Reincarnated By U.S. Chorale
''Radio Free Europe'', October 26, 2010. 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.

References

External links

Official Website

* [http://www.rferl.org/content/Rare_Work_By_Master_Georgian_Composer_Reincarnated_By_US_Chorale/2066041.html Radio Free Europe article with video of the Chorale performing Paliashvili's Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom]
Video interview with Director Frederick Binkholder, with footage of the Chorale singing Handel's Messiah
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