Sunday, June 20, 2010 7:30 PM
14th Annual YouthCUE Nation’s Capital Festival of Youth Choirs
The 14th Annual YouthCUE Nation’s Capital Festival Grand Concert will take place at the Washington National Cathedral on Sunday, June 20, at 7:30 pm. The concert features a combined choir of 200 youth from 12 individual choirs, spanning across 8 US states and 6 Christian denominations, accompanied by members of the National Symphony Orchestra.
The concert will include the works of Handel, Beethoven, Tchesnokov, Wilberg, Goeller, and others.
San Antonio-based YouthCUE is a multidenominational non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of church and school youth choirs across North America. Founded in 1990 by Randy Edwards, YouthCUE has consistently grown in size and scope and is widely-credited for the resurgence of church youth choirs in the United States.
Major “Festivals,” YouthCUE’s flagship events, are held in various venues annually. Each Festival includes 200-400 singers from individual YouthCUE choirs, both large and small in size. Participating choirs learn a common repertoire and, upon arrival at the Festival location, engage in mass choir rehearsals, musical activities, and local community service projects. Each Festival concludes with a Grand Concert, free and open to the public, which is accompanied by members of the local professional symphony orchestra and is professionally recorded and distributed on the YouthCUE website.
More information about YouthCUE can be found on its website at www.youthcue.org.
This is the 12th year YouthCUE has performed at the National Cathedral.
Admission is free and open to the public.