The City Choir of Washington: 2018 England Tour Program Book

Classical Movements Presents
Debut Tour of England
July 2018
Thursday, 5 July | 7:30 pm
Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester
Saturday, 7 July | 8 pm
Keble College Chapel, Oxford
Sunday, 8 July | 1 pm
Ely Cathedral, Ely
Wednesday, 11 July | 7:30 pm
Temple Church, London

T o n i g h t ' s M u s i c : t h e C i t y C h o i r o f W a s h i n g t o n
Robert Shafer (b. 1946)
Psalm 121: I will lift up mine eyes
Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)
John Tavener (1944-2013)
The Chelsea Carol
The Lamb
Tolstoy's Creed*
*Commission by the City Choir of Washington (2012)
Gabriel Fauré (1944-2013) Requiem in D minor, op. 48
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Introit & Kyrie
Offertory
Sanctus
Pie Jesu
Agnus Dei
Libera me
In Paradisum
Encore: Traditional,
arr. Robert Shafer
Deep River
Agnes Donohue, soprano | Zain Shariff, baritone
Performed without interval
ROBERT J. SHAFER CONDUCTOR
PAUL SKEVINGTON ORGANIST
RACHEL TESTER SOPRANO
RYAN DAVIS BARITONE
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The British Choral Tradition: An Inspiration for America
By Robert Shafer
The great tradition of British choral singing
must be considered one of the singular
glories of music history. The enormously high
standard set by British conductors and
composers has influenced and inspired most
if not all northern European countries.
Certainly this has had an enormous impact
on American choral singing and composition.
I had the great opportunity as a young
American high school student to sing many
works by the great English Renaissance
masters including unforgettable madrigals
by Wilbye, Weelkes and Morley as well as
the great masses and motets of Byrd, Tallis,
and Gibbons. As a young music student in
the early sixties, I was enormously impressed
by the great tradition of choral singing at
King's College, Cambridge, directed by the
marvelous choral genius, Sir David Willcocks.
Of course, the wonderful symphonic choirs
throughout Great Britain were a tremendous
inspiration. I had a transforming musical
experience in the spring of 1964, at the age
of 18, when I heard one of the first American
performances of Britten's War Requiem at
Washington National Cathedral, conducted
by Paul Callaway.
I have been a professional choral conductor
in Washington, D.C. for the past 50 years. I
have had the great opportunity to serve as a
choral educator, church musician, and
conductor of choirs large and small, amateur
and professional. Inspired by my early
exposure to the great British choral tradition,
I have regularly performed so many British
works from Handel oratorios to the mystical
masterpieces of Sir John Tavener. As a
conductor of a symphonic choir in
Washington, D.C., I have conducted many of
the 20th century British masterpieces,
among them Kennedy Center performances
of the Sea Symphony and Dona nobis
pacem of Vaughan Williams, Walton's Belshazzar's
Feast, the great A Child of Our
Time of Sir Michael Tippett, and the greatest
work of the 20th century for choir and
orchestra, the War Requiem of Sir Benjamin
Britten. I had the great honor of having my
live performance recording of the Britten
War Requiem win the Grammy Award for
Best Choral Performance in 2000. I also had
the honor of preparing Tippett's A Child of
Our Time for Sir Neville Marriner in a
performance with the National Symphony
Orchestra at the Kennedy Center.
One of the great inspirations to my own
choral compositions has been the choral
music of Sir John Tavener. I have performed
many of his major works for choir and
orchestra. In 2012, I obtained a grant from
the Legatum Institute in London to
commission a major work from Sir John that
resulted in his wonderful Three Poems of
George Herbert and Tolstoy's Creed. I
conducted the world premier of works in
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April 2013 at Washington National
Cathedral. These were some of his final
works, and we remember that he died in
September of that same year. The City Choir
of Washington will be singing Tolstoy's
Creed on its British concert tour this July.
This concert program opens with two
contemporary American choral works. I
composed my setting of Psalm 121 to
celebrate the 150th anniversary of Hope
College, one of America's finest institutions
founded by the Dutch Reformed Church.
Hope College commissioned me in 2015 to
write a work that would open its new arts
complex which contains a superb concert
hall large Cassavant pipe organ. The piece
opens with organ alone, revealing some of
the instrument's many strengths. I was asked
to write a work that would be an accessible
work for all choirs, volunteer or professional,
with the ability to be understood by all
audiences at first hearing. The second
American choral work on the program is by
Eric Whitacre, one of America's finest choral
composers. The text is fascinating, written by
poet Charles Anthony Silvestri. The poet
describes it best. "For this Advent text I chose
a darker, more overtly pagan hymn to the
Mother (Virgin or otherwise). The images
here are among the multiple roles the
Mother plays as the wheel of the seasons
turns about us."
Tolstoy's version of the Christian creed is
fascinating in what it contains and what it
does not. Tavener's setting is highly dramatic
with powerful declamatory chanting of the
text. The Lamb of Tavener is justly famous.
His setting of Blake's incredible poem is
performed everywhere for very good
reasons. Quite simply, it is a miniature
musical masterpiece.
The Requiem of Gabriel Fauré needs no
introduction. It is beloved around the world
as one of the most intimate and comforting
settings of the text. This performance
features the superb edition of John Rutter,
based on Fauré's original manuscripts. The
work was originally conceived as a chamber
work, written only for a small choir, organ,
and very few optional instruments.
Unfortunately this work is often performed in
the gargantuan arrangement of Roger
Ducasse. Fauré did not approve this version,
but had to allow its publication by Hamelle
so that it could be performed by large
symphony orchestras and big choirs. The
essential intimacy of this delicate
masterpiece is lost in this version. The new
edition by John Rutter is based on Fauré's
original manuscript and restores this
intimacy. The world is forever in his debt for
saving this incredible work.
This program features two works by
Tavener. Tolstoy's Creed was composed for
the City Choir of Washington in 2012.
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Robert Shafer: Psalm 121 'I will lift up mine eyes'
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help.
My help cometh from the Lord which made heaven and earth.
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: He that keepeth thee will not slumber.
Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
The sun shall not smite you by day nor the moon by night.
The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.
The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil. He shall preserve thy soul.
He shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth and even for ever more.
Eric Whitacre: The Chelsea Carol
Adveni, Sapientia,
Donum Hinvernale–
Confirma nos vigilantes
Ad quod adventurum.
Adveni, adveni somnifera,
Aevifera,
Regina solis siderum.
Adveni, adveni lunifera,
Glacifera,
Regina mater temporum.
Sancta domina regina!
Sancta domina argentea!
Sancta domina purissima!
Adveni, adveni florifera,
Solifera,
Regina lucis candida.
Adveni, adveni messifera,
Nivifera,
Regina Somnis Magistra!
Adveni mater,
Adveni ad nos,
Adveni domina.
Come thou, Wisdom,
Gift of Winter–
Strengthen us to wait
For that which is to come.
Come thou, come thou dream-bearer,
Time-bearer,
Queen of sun and stars.
Come thou, come thou moon-bearer,
Frost-bearer,
Queen and mother of the seasons.
Holy lady, Queen!
Holy lady of silver!
Purest holy lady!
Come thou, come thou flower-bearer,
Sun bearer,
Queen of gleaming white light.
Come thou, come thou sheaf-bearer,
Snow bearer,
Queen, Mistress of Dreams.
Come, Thou, Mother!
Come to us!
Come Lady!
- Charles Anthony Silvestri, b.1965
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John Tavener: The Lamb
Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?
Gave thee life, and bid thee feed, By the stream and o'er the mead;
Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing woolly, bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice?
Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?
Little Lamb, I'll tell thee, Little Lamb, I'll tell thee:
He is called by thy name, For He calls Himself a Lamb.
He is meek, and He is mild: He became a little child.
I a child, and thou a lamb, We are callèd by His name.
Little Lamb, God bless thee! Little Lamb, God bless thee!
- William Blake
John Tavener: Tolstoy's Creed
I believe in God, whom I conceive of as the Spirit, Love, and Principle of all things.
I believe that He is in me as I am in Him.
I believe that the will of God was never more clearly expressed than in the doctrine of the
Christ-Man;
I believe that the intention of our individual lives is to augment the sum of love for Him.
I believe that this added measure of love will secure daily increasing happiness for us in this
life and in the other, a felicity all the more perfect for our having learned to love before.
I believe that there is only one means of progressing in love: prayer—
Prayer that he himself has taught us, solit’ry prayer, which consists of restoring and
strengthening, within oneself, an awareness of the meaning of our life and an awareness
that we must be ruled by the will of God.
Gabriel Fauré: Requiem
I. lntroitus - Kyrie
Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine
et lux perpetua luceat eis
Grant them eternal rest, o Lord,
and may perpertual light shine upon them
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Te decet hymnus, Deus in Sion
et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem
Exaudi orationem meam
ad te omnis caro veniet
Kyrie eleison,
Christe eleison
Kyrie eleison.
II. Offertorium
O Domine, Jesu Christe, Rex Gloriae
libera animas defunctorum
de poenis inferni et de profundo lacu
O Domine, Jesu Christe, Rex Gloriae
libera animas defunctorum de ore leonis
ne absorbeat eus Tartarus ne cadant in
obscurum.
O Domine, Jesu Christe, Rex Gloriae
ne cadant in obscurum.
Hostias et preces tibi Domine, laudis
offerimus
tu suscipe pro animabus illis
quarum hodie memoriam facimus
Fac eas, Domine, de morte transire ad vitam
Quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini eus.
O Domine, Jesu Christe, Rex Gloriae
libera animas defunctorum
de poenis inferni et de profundo lacu
Thou, o God, art praised in Zion, and unto Thee
shall the vow be performed in Jerusalem.
Hear my prayer,
unto Thee shall all flesh come
.
Lord have mercy,
Christ have mercy,
Lord have mercy
Lord Jesus Christ, King of glory,
deliver the souls of all the faithful departed
from the pains of hells and from the
bottomless pit.
Lord Jesus Christ, King of glory,
Deliver them from the lion's mouth,
nor let them fall into darkness,
neither the black abyss swallow them up.
Lord Jesus Christ, King of glory,
neither the black abyss swallow them up.
We offer unto Thee this sacrifice of prayer and
praise
Receive it for those souls
whom today we commemorate.
Allow them, o Lord, to cross from death into
the life
which once Thou didst promise to Abraham
and his seed.
Lord Jesus Christ, King of glory,
deliver the souls of all the faithful departed
from the pains of hells and from the
bottomless pit.
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ne cadant in obscurum.
Amen.
nor let them fall into darkness.
Amen
III. Sanctus
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus
Dominus Deus Sabaoth
Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua
Hosanna in excelsis.
Holy, holy, holy
Lord God of Sabaoth
heaven and earth are full of Thy glory
Hosanna in the highest.
IV. Pie ]esu
Pie Jesu, Domine, dona eis requiem
dona eis requiem sempiternam requiem
V. Agnus Dei
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi
dona eis requiem
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi
dona eis requiem
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi
dona eis requiem, sempiternam requiem.
Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine
Cum sanctis tuis in aeternum,
quia pius es
Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis
Merciful Jesus, Lord, grant them rest
grant them rest, eternal rest.
O Lamb of God, that takest away the sin of the
world,
grant them rest
O Lamb of God, that takest away the sin of the
world,
grant them rest
O Lamb of God, that takest away the sin of the
world,
grant them rest, everlasting rest.
May eternal light shine on them, o Lord,
with Thy saints for ever,
because Thou are merciful.
Grant them eternal rest, o Lord,
and may perpetual light shine on them.
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VI. Libera me
Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna
in die illa tremenda
Quando coeli movendi sunt et terra
Dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem
Tremens factus sum ego et timeo
dum discussio venerit atque ventura ira
Dies illa dies irae
calamitatis et miseriae
dies illa, dies magna
et amara valde
Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine
et lux perpetua luceat eis
Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna
in die illa tremenda
Quando coeli movendi sunt et terra
Dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem
VII. In Paradisum
In Paradisum deducant Angeli in tuo
adventu suscipiant te Martyres
et perducant te in civitatem sanctam
Jerusalem
Jerusalem
Chorus Angelorum te suscipiat
et cum Lazaro quondam paupere
aeternam habeas requiem
Aeternam habeas requiem
Deliver me, o Lord, from everlasting death
on that dreadful day
when the heavens and the earth shall be
moved
when thou shalt come to judge the world by
fire
I quake with fear and I tremble
awaiting the day of account and the wrath to
come.
That day, the day of anger,
of calamity, of misery,
that day, the great day,
and most bitter.
Grant them eternal rest, o Lord,
and may perpertual light shine upon them.
Deliver me, o Lord, from everlasting death
on that dreadful day
when the heavens and the earth shall be
moved
when thou shalt come to judge the world by
fire
May the angels receive them in Paradise,
at they coming may the martyrs receive thee
and bring thee into the holy city Jerusalem
Jerusalem
There may the chorus of angels receive thee,
and with Lazarus, once a beggar,
may thou have eternal rest.
May thou have eternal rest.
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TONIGHT'S ARTISTS: THE CITY CHOIR OF WASHINGTON
Robert Shafer, Artistic Director
Rachel Binger, Assistant Conductor
Paul Skevington, Organist
Soprano
Rachel Binger
Vivian Chakarian
Agnes Donohue
Glenda Finley
Peggie Hatton
Katie Jagielski
Lani Kanakry
Lynn Kaplan
Mary Peterson
Susan Schreurs
Amy Solomon
Rachel Tester
Emily Tsai
Juliet Weenink-Griffiths
Alto
Audrey Bigelow
Gail Crane
Barbara Greene
Annabel Hunter
Joyce Korvick
Rhoda Metcalfe
Carol Perez
Connie Ridgway
Maggie Stewart
Shelley Stewart
Joanna Ward
Anne Woodworth
Elaine Wunderlich
Tenor
Bill Doepkens
Meg Hemingway
Jim Hutchinson
Joe Jones
Geoffrey Kaiser
Anita O'Leary
Leo Settler
Ben Tsai
Bass
Jim Blackburn
Al Bradford
Steve Briggs
Rick Brush
Ryan Davis
Bill Gilcher
Jeff Jenkins
Jay Labov
Dick Morrison
Zain Shariff
Jon Short
Rod Sterling
The City Choir of Washington, which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary under the
artistic leadership of Robert Shafer, is known for its beautiful choral sound, attention to
musical detail, and moving performances. The City Choir's full roster is comprised of 120
experienced volunteer singers who hail from throughout the greater Washington, D.C.,
metropolitan area.
Besides performing to capacity audiences in its own yearly subscription series, City Choir
has sung with the National Symphony Orchester and the Washington National Opera
Orchestra at the Kennedy Center and at Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts. The
chorus has sung under the batons of such noted conductors as Stephen Lord, Randall Craig
Fleischer, Ludwig Wicki and Marvin Hamlisch. City Choir has also been honored to join with
the Defiant Requiem Foundation and Maestro Murry Sidlin to present performances of The
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Defiant Requiem at the Kennedy Center, Strathmore Hall, and Avery Fisher Hall at New
York's Lincoln Center. Additional memorable performances by the City Choir include Bach's
Mass in B Minor and Magnificat, Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, Fauré's Requiem,
Monteverdi's Marian Vespers, Mozart's Requiem, Vivaldi's Gloria, and the world premiere of
Lux Aeterna by Robert Shafer.
The choir commemorated the 60th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II with
a concert of British choral music and the world premiere of Sir John Tavener's Three Poems
of George Herbert, written specially for the Diamond Jubilee festivities. The composer was
present for this concert at the Washington National Cathedral. Maestro Shafer feels that
"our great affinity for and dedication to the music of our time is what really sets us apart. We
have given many premiere performances, including several of the final compositions by one
of England's greatest composers, Sir John Tavener."
In the spring of 2014, the Choralis Foundation nominated the City Choir of Washington for
an Ovation Award for Most Creative Programming. Maestro Shafer challenges his singers
and audiences with creative programming, breathing new life into old masterworks--most
recently Handel's oratorio Solomon--and pairing them with stunning renditions of new or
under-performed works, such as Arvo Pärt's Te Deum, Benjamin Britten's Cantata
Misericordium, and Tarik O'Regan's Triptych.
The City Choir of Washington seeks to inspire singers, audience members, and the
community at large to discover the rich musical heritage of choral music and, in the words
of Maestro Shafer, "to create beauty and give our audiences an escape from our deeply
troubled world and a vision of a new world truly at peace and filled with love." Also, through
performance and educational and community outreach programs such as the City Singers,
the high school Partners in Song, and commitment to spotlighting emerging American
soloists, the City Choir of Washington aims to nurture the next generation of performers and
audience members.
July 2018 marks the choir's debut tour of England, in which the choir has chosen to revive its
2012 commission of Tavener's Tolstoy's Creed along with the Fauré Requiem and works by
Robert Shafer and Eric Whitacre.
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ROBERT SHAFER CONDUCTOR
Recognized as one of America’s major choral conductors, Robert Shafer has served as
Artistic Director of the City Choir of Washington since its launch in September 2007. For
more than fifty years, Maestro Shafer has served the Washington, DC area as a choral
conductor, composer, educator, and church musician. He was the music director of The
Washington Chorus for over thirty-five years. In February 2000, he was honored by the
National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences with a GRAMMY® Award for Best Choral
Performance for a live concert recording of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem.
Shafer prepared The Washington Chorus for the GRAMMY® Award-winning recording of
John Corigliano’s Of Rage and Remembrance with Leonard Slatkin and The National
Symphony Orchestra and for the GRAMMY® Award-nominated compact disc and film
soundtrack recording of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov with Mstislav Rostropovich and The
National Symphony Orchestra. Shafer has prepared choruses for many of the world’s
leading conductors, including Sir Neville Marriner, Seiji Ozawa, Zdenek Macal, Christopher
Warren-Green, Charles Dutoit, Kent Nagano, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Leonard Slatkin. He
has guest-conducted The National Symphony Orchestra on several occasions and has also
conducted choral performances for NBC national telecasts. In addition, he has conducted
numerous European concert tours with the choral groups that he has prepared.
A student of the distinguished Nadia Boulanger, Shafer has been noted for his own
compositions, including his setting of Lux Aeterna, which was premiered in April 2009. In
1969, he won first prize in composition at the American Conservatory, Fontainebleau,
France, and his works have been performed throughout the United States and Europe. When
he served as music director of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception, he composed and conducted a setting of Tu es Petrus in honor of Pope John
Paul II’s 1979 visit to Washington, D.C. Another setting of Tu es Petrus, which he wrote for
the Children’s Chorus of Washington, was published by Boosey & Hawkes. He also
composed and conducted a setting of Nunc Dimittis for the funeral of the Honorable Elliot
Richardson, which was held at Washington National Cathedral. In 2015 Maestro Shafer was
commissioned to compose a new work in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Hope
College in Holland, Michigan, which coincided with the opening of a new Arts Complex at
the college.
An influential teacher, Shafer taught at James Madison High School from 1968-1975,
producing one of the finest madrigal groups in the country. He served as Artist-in-Residence
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and professor of music at the Conservatory of Music of Shenandoah University in
Winchester, Virginia, from 1983 until his retirement in 2016. In 1989, Shafer was honored by
the Virginia Council on Higher Education with an Outstanding Faculty Award for his
outstanding public service, research, and teaching, the first teacher in the arts to receive this
award. In June 2011, the Choralis Foundation Board of Directors and Artistic Director
Gretchen Kuhrmann named Robert Shafer as the winner of the 2nd Annual Greater
Washington DC Area Choral Excellence Award. This award is given to a person or
organization that has made significant contributions to the art of choral singing in the
greater DC metropolitan area.
PAUL SKEVINGTON ORGANIST
Dr. Paul Skevington is the Minister of Music and Liturgy at Saint Luke Catholic Church in
McLean, Virginia, and was very much involved in the project to secure the highly-acclaimed
61-rank Steiner-Reck mechanical-action pipe organ, installed in the the church in 1998.
Dr. Skevington is a sought after choral accompanist in the Washington, D.C. area, and has an
active schedule as a solo performer. He can be heard on five compact disc recordings,
including two with trumpeter Phil Snedecor. He is soloist on the internationally released
Organ Concertos by Joseph Rheinberger on the Naxos label. He has been invited to play the
Organ Postlude mini-recital at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall on the new Casavant
Organ on June 5, 2018, following the National Symphony Orchestra concert.
Dr. Skevington holds degrees in organ performance from Indiana University and a doctorate
degree in Liturgical Music from the Catholic University of America. He is past dean of the
Northern Virginia Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and past chairperson for the
National Association of Pastoral Musicians' Section for Organists.
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RACHEL TESTER SOPRANO
A classically-trained vocalist, Rachel holds a BA in Opera Performance from Shenandoah
University and MA in Arts Management from American University. Rachel has been singing
in Washington, D.C. area choirs for the last 15 years, most recently as a member of the City
Choir of Washington, performing on such stages as the Kennedy Center, the Music Center at
Strathmore, Wolf Trap, and Lincoln Center. Rachel also enjoys being a member of the City
Singers, the community outreach chamber choir of the City Choir of Washington.
In addition to her choral singing, Rachel is a member of Mini-Musicals on the Move, a nonprofit
ensemble dedicated to sharing classic musical theatre through interactive concert
productions. Current roles include Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins), Laurey Williams
(Oklahoma), and soon-to-be Marion Paroo (The Music Man). Rachel currently works as an
analyst and resides in Northern Virginia, where she is an avid runner, reader, and amateur
photographer.
RYAN DAVIS BARITONE
Having graduated with his Bachelor of Music Education from Shenandoah Conservatory in
2016, Davis has sung with Robert Shafer both as a student and a professional. In 2015 he
was the top placing vocalist in the Shenandoah Conservatory Student Solo Competition,
and 3rd place overall against undergraduate and graduate students of various instruments.
He as performed in opera choruses for productions of Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro,
and Die Fledermaus. As a young professional, he has performed oratorio as a soloist in
Fauré's Requiem, Jephte by Giacomo Carissimi, and Anton Bruckner's Te Deum. He will be
studying voice in Salzburg, Austria, with Elizabeth Futral in the summer of 2018.
Davis is currently a music teacher at Cedar Point Elementary School in Virginia. He is also a
choral conductor of both children and adult choirs in the Washington, D.C. area. His children's
chorus at Cedar Point Elementary has sung at George Mason University's EagleBank Arena
for an audience of thousands. Davis looks to pursue a Master of Music degree in the fall of
2019.
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