Cathedral Choral Society is a 240-voice concert chorus based at the Washington National Cathedral. Presently its music director is J. Reilly Lewis, who has been in the position since 1985. Paul Callaway founded the group in 1941 and directed it through 1984. The society performs regularly at the Kennedy Center and Wolf Trap in addition to the cathedral with groups including the National Symphony Orchestra. Six of its recordings are still available and its flagship recording Hymns through the Centuries, recorded in 2000, was still achieving a 5,300 Amazon.com sales rank as of June 2005. Washington National Cathedral was the site of two Presidential state funerals: for Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald W. Reagan, and a presidential burial in the cathedral mausoleum: Woodrow Wilson. ... The Kennedy Center as seen from the Potomac River. ... Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts is a performing arts center situated in a setting of rolling hills and woods located on 117 acres (47. ... The National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC is a major symphony orchestra that performs at the Kennedy Center. ...
Washington National Cathedral, officially the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in the City and Diocese of Washington and an Episcopal cathedral church, is designated as a monument: the National House of Prayer of the United States.
Concurrently, the cathedral is also the official seat of both the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, USA and the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, motherchurch of the Episcopal Church in the District of Columbia and Maryland counties of Charles, St.
The resident symphonic chorus of the Washington National Cathedral is the CathedralChoralSociety.
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