Since its first appearance on Palm Sunday 1929, the Capital University Chapel Choir has upheld the rich Lutheran heritage of fine choral singing. The Chapel Choir is a select mixed chorus comprised of students who are majoring in music as well as nearly every other academic discipline at Capital. The choir performs a variety of scared and secular choral literature including motets, choral/orchestral works, spirituals, gospel music, folk songs, and traditional sacred anthems. In recent years, the choir has added to its repertoire music from Eastern Europe, Africa, Japan, and from Latin and South America. An active touring tradition has led the Chapel Choir to present concerts in prestigious venues throughout the United States, most notably, Carnegie Hall, Jordan Hall in Boston, the Chicago Opera House, and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. The choir has toured extensively throughout Europe, presenting concerts in England, Holland, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, and Germany. In 1964, the choir became the first American college choir to make an extensive tour of the Orient, perforing in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Phillipines.
In celebration of 60 years of musical ministry, the choir traveled to Hong Kong, Japan and the People's Republic of China. In June of 2003, the Chapel Choir celebrated its 75th Anniversary with a concert tour to Austria, Germany, and the Czech Republic, including performances in Leipzig, Dresden, Prague, Salzburg, and Innsbruck. In a review of the Chapel Choir's final concert at the Pfarrkirche St. Georg in Freising, Germany, a music critic wrote, "Sometimes contemplative, sometimes stirring, the spectators of St. Georg church were offered an absoloutely perfect performance." The Chapel Choir returned in May of 2006, presenting concerts in France, Austria, Germany, and Prague. Highlights of this concert tour included performances at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and the newly restored Frauenkirche in Dresden Germany.
The Chapel Choir has been honored with invitations to perform for numerous state and regional conferences and conventions, including the American Choral Directors Association, the Music Educators National Conference, the Ohio Music Educators Association, and the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians.
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