Memorial Day Concert

National Men’s Chorus will present Salute to America, a special concert for Memorial Day weekend, on Sunday, May 27, 2012, at 5:00 p.m. at Saint Luke Catholic Church, 7001 Georgetown Pike, McLean Virginia. The program will be conducted by Thomas Beveridge, founder and Artistic Director of the chorus, and will feature the internationally acclaimed pianist Thomas Pandolfi and the eminent organist, Paul Skevington.

National Men’s Chorus is known for its versatility in performing various musical genres: folk songs, opera choruses, classic American popular songs and classical music written especially for men’s voices. Its CD recording of American patriotic music,”Life and Liberty,” has sold over 20,000 copies nationwide.

Join the National Men’s Chorus and two master keyboard soloists — our accompanist and internationally acclaimed pianist, Thomas Pandolfi, and the noted organist, Paul Skevington—for a late afternoon program of patriotic music, including The National Anthem (a new verse by our own Jay Wright), Randall Thompson’s stirring Testament of Freedom, a stunningly brilliant transcription for piano of The Marine’s Hymn by the late, great Polish pianist, Jakob Gimpel, and an arrangement by Mr. Beveridge of songs from the WWII era, Three songs (A Sentry’s Prayer, The Hills of Shiloh, and The Battle of New Orleans) from our chorus member/composer/arranger, Fred Gray, and enough other familiar American patriotic music to stir the soul.

National Men’s Chorus, now in its thirteenth season, has been praised in the Washington Post for its “vigor, well-blended tone and fine dynamic nuance.” The chorus has performed at many of Washington’s prestigious venues, including the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, and the Terrace Theater of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts.

Tickets for Salute to America will be available at the door or by calling 202 -244 -7191; $15 general admission, students and children admitted free of charge.