Veteran singers give voice to memories of the D.C. Youth Chorale
From its creation in 1961 until its dissolution in 1995, the D.C. Youth Chorale took the finest voices from the city’s public high schools and molded them into a hundred-strong choir. This reunion, sponsored byAdvertisement
The approach Jackson used — he described it as “discipline, standards, excellence, success” — earned the D.C. Youth Chorale honors such as a spot on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” a State Department-sponsored tour of Romania, performances at World’s Fairs in New York City and Spokane, and appearances at the Kennedy Center and elsewhere in Washington. Among its members: mezzo-soprano, who graduated from McKinley in 1981.
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