THE CAPITAL HEARINGS
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About the Artist
The Capital Hearings® have been entertaining audiences large and small since 2010. From sold-out concerts and embassy soirees to holiday caroling, Capitol Hill flash mobs and roller derby bouts, the group’s wide-ranging repertoire of classical favorites, vocal jazz, and contemporary arrangements has established it as Washington, D.C.’s most versatile a cappella ensemble.
Having spent years honing their skills in historic college glee clubs and award-winning vocal ensembles, the group’s members have performed with prominent D.C. choruses, sung at Carnegie Hall, and been featured soloists at the Kennedy Center. They are music teachers, professional church choristers, lead singers of rock bands, conductors, arrangers, beat-boxers, and scat-masters.
Performance highlights include concerts at the Kennedy Center, Strathmore, Atlas Performing Arts Center, and Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, as well as appearances in prominent Washington venues like the Smithsonian American History Museum, National Gallery of Art, National Portrait Gallery, Phillips Collection, U.S. Botanic Garden, and on Capitol Hill. In 2015, the ensemble’s self-produced concert, Spark of Genius – Technology + Innovation was recognized by the D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities through a City Arts Project grant.
Artist Videos
Feature Video
Artist Song List (Click on songs to listen)
Classical
- Timor et Tremor (Poulenc)
- O Magnum Mysterium (Poulenc)
- If Ye Love Me (Tallis)
- Tota Pulchra Es (Duruflé)
- Ubi Caritas (Duruflé)
- I Sat Down Under His Shadow (Bairstow)
- Locus Iste (Bruckner)
- Abendlied (Rheinberger)
- Ave Maria (Rachmaninoff)
- Vigilate (Byrd)
- Im Herbst (Brahms)
- Surge Amica Mea (Palestrina)
- Spaseniye Sodelal (Chesnokov)
- Spring from The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
- Canon in D (Pachelbel)
Modern Classics
- Io Son La Primavera (Hawley)
- There Will Come Soft Rains (Koppin)
- With a Lily in Your Hand (Whitacre)
- Words of the Sun (Zhou Long)
- The Tyger (Miller)
- City Trees (Gregorio)
- The Astronomer (Yanesh)
- Nunc Dimittis (Ešenvalds)
- Horizons (van Dijk)
- Lux Aurumque (Whitacre)
- Alma Beata et Bella (Hill)
- She Walks in Beauty (Barnum)
- Set Me as a Seal (Clausen)
- Eatnemen Vuelie (Fjellheim)
- A Boy and a Girl (Whitacre)
Pop, Rock, and Country
- Galileo (Indigo Girls)
- Sunday Bloody Sunday (U2)
- Light Up the Sky (Yellowcard)
- Hey Brother (Avicii)
- Earth (Imogen Heap)
- Doubting Thomas (Nickel Creek)
- Lullabye (Billy Joel)
- Don’t Carry It All (The Decemberists)
- Straight to My Heart (Sting)
- Fix You (Coldplay)
- Castle on the Hill (Ed Sheeran)
- White Winter Hymnal (Fleet Foxes)
’60s and ’70s Hits
- Where Have All The Flowers Gone (Pete Seeger)
- Here Comes the Sun (Beatles)
- God Only Knows (Beach Boys)
- Yesterday (Beatles)
- Superstition (Stevie Wonder)
- April Come She Will (Paul Simon)
- Build Me Up Buttercup (The Foundations)
- September (Earth, Wind & Fire)
Americana, Spirituals, and Folk
- The Road Home (Paulus)
- The Star-Spangled Banner
- America, The Beautiful
- Shenandoah
- Long Time Trav’ling (arr. Betinis)
- Would You Harbor Me (Barnwell)
- When the Saints Go Marching In
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Vocal Jazz and Doo Wop
- It Might as Well Be Spring (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
- I’ll Be Seeing You (Sammy Fain)
- A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
- Blue Skies (Berlin)
- In the Still of the Night (Five Satins)
- Love Walked In (Gershwin)
- I’m Beginning to See the Light (Ellington)
- The Nearness of You (Carmichael & Washington)
- Fever (Peggy Lee)
- Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep (Berlin)
Seasonal Favorites
- Jingle Bells
- We Three Kings
- Joy To The World
- Angels We Have Heard on High
- What Child Is This
- God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
- Silent Night
- All I Want for Christmas is You (Mariah Carey)
- Carol of the Bells
- A Holly Jolly Christmas
- Silver Bells
- Ocho Kandelikas
- Come Darkness, Come Light (Mary Chapin Carpenter)
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Frosty the Snow Man
- Sleigh Ride